FLASHPOINT ACADEMY STUDENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM PRESENTS "PAPER AVIATORS" GAME

OUR CONGRATS TO THE ENTIRE TEAM FOR AN AMAZING AND IMPRESSIVE RESULT WITH LOTS MORE TO COME...












Paper Aviators Team

Producer:
• Pete Stilwell

Art Leads:
• Ben Grieb: 3d Lead
• Trevor Paradise: 2d Lead

Design Lead:
• Justin Radtke

Art Team:
• Josh Czaja
• David Finkelstein
• Justin Radtke
• Pete Stilwell

Programmers:
• Alex Nuttall
• Corey Standley

Sound Lead:
• Sean McGivern

Sound Engineer:
• Jim Croteau

Composer:
• Hubert Campbell

Faculty / Staff Advisors:
• Darryl Hughes (Executive Producer)
• Alan Reck (Lead Programmer)

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY FACULTY MEMBER ARMANDO IBANEZ COMPLETES 5-MINUTE SHORT ABOUT CONTINUING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR

This 5-minute short is about raising awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur, which has been a festering issue dating back to the civil war in Sudan. Warring factions continue to ravage this poverty-stricken African nation. One of the Lost Boys, Peter Bul, a native of the Darfur region of Sudan and now a resident of Chicago, recalls his harrowing escape when he was a child, and was forced to flee his burning village. Bul and hundreds of children—known as the Lost Boys—trekked through dangerous territory, mines, shootings, bombings and faced near starvation. Ultimately, some of them made it to safety. Yet, many did not. Many children died as a result of violence and starvation.

Organizations in the United States are working hard at making sure that Americans don’t forget of the ongoing genocide—a term the US government uses in classifying the unchecked violence in Darfur—and do their part in helping stop the violence. In this short, representatives of four organizations are interviewed, which are from Amnesty International, Council for a Parliament of World Religions, and the Sudanese Community Center.

This film is a precursor to a feature documentary now in production, Darfur—Hope Amid Catastrophe. Both projects are productions of Flashpoint Studios, affiliated with Flashpoint The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences of Chicago.

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY HOSTS DONORS "SNEAK PREVIEW" OF NEW DANIEL BURNHAM FILM "MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS"

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY WELCOMES 200 GUESTS TO "BACK TO SCHOOL" CELEBRATION WITH TONY BENNETT AT RAVINIA

MANY THANKS TO OUR MEDIA PARTNER MICHIGAN AVENUE MAGAZINE AND DAN USLAN FOR SPONSORING THIS EVENING AND TO BARB, CLAIRE, KRISTIN, LINDSAY, RACHEL AND CHRISTINA FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK IN PULLING OFF A GREAT EVENING AND TO THE WEATHER FOR COOPERATING. IT WAS GREAT TO SEE SO MANY MEMBERS OF EVERY PART OF THE FLASHPOINT ACADEMY COMMUNITY GATHERED TOGETHER TO KICK OFF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR.