Mar Elepano

Mariano "Mar" Elepano (born 1954) is a Filipino American independent filmmaker, teacher, and has been the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1993. Elepano was born and raised in the Philippines. He came to the United States to study film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1975. Some of his short works of experimental animation (Lion Dance, Pendito, Winter, Burp, and Take 5) were screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York July 27, 1989 and at Filmex: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Short Film) March 14–30, 1979. In addition, Winter was screened at the Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists...