Pia Clemente
Pia Clemente (* in Manila, Philippines) is an American film producer. Produced by her short film Our Time Is Up was nominated for the 2006 Oscar. This made her the first Filipino - American who was awarded an Oscar nomination.
Life
At the age of three years, Pia Clemente emigrated with her family to the United States. She attended the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and became, in 1989, her high school graduation. In 1990 she began studying at Barnard College, where she chose an English major and theater and creative writing as a minor. She also played tennis and was founded in 1993 by her college for the Academic All - Ivy ( Ivy League) nominated. However, an injury prevented their entry into the professional tennis and meant that they focused mainly on the theater class. She began her first short film to work, under the title Christmas in New York won a Student Academy Award in 1997. In 1993 she graduated from college with the B. A. from. After Clemente worked behind the theater scenes, in the reception of an advertising film producer and as a production assistant at Maysles Films.
As Clemente In 1995 he received a commitment from the American Film Institute, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has lived ever since. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts, she headed in 1997 as a line producer production of the Independent film The Debut. The film is about the identity of a young Filipino - American, and thus has parallels to Clemente's own life.
Your livelihood earned Clemente mainly in the commercial film industry. From 2000, she worked for two years at Orbit Productions Subsequently, she worked as a freelance producer of commercials for various companies, such as Coppo's film, Bob Industries and Moxie Pictures. She created commercials for brands such as Volkswagen, Direct TV, HP and Play Station 3
A mutual friend introduced her Rob Pearlstein ago, the director, screenwriter and co-producer of the short film Our Time Is Up. Pearlstein's witty and intelligent script convinced Clemente to collaborate on the film, although he neither could offer the rest of the crew a payment to her. As the short film came out in 2004, he received good reviews and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short category film. This Pia Clemente was the first native of the Philippines U.S. citizen, who won an Oscar nomination for himself. Four months after this success, she was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. There she is a member of the Nomination Committee of the Live Action Shorts & Animation and Foreign movies.
The surprising success of Our Time Is Up motivated them to stay in the film business and continue their creative work. 2008 Clemente produced two short films, a documentary about the religious community Shinnyo- En ( The Awakening Fire) and whose annual lantern ritual in Hawaii on Memorial Day ( Where the Ocean Meets the Sky).
Filmography
Production Assistant
Production Manager
Producer
- 2004 Our Time Is Up
- 2008 The Awakening Fire
- 2008 Where the Ocean Meets the Sky