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🎨 Illustrator, Designer & Storyteller in Santa Cruz, CA
🌱Art Director of @tule.film

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Let's take a look at some of Tule's early development! Our team began by visualizing intimate, pollution-free moments between nature and the Pomo people of Clearlake. Within these thumbs, we emphasized an overall tone of harmony through their peaceful interactions.

Art by @rachemari

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#tule #tulefilm #shortfilm ⁠#animation #animatedshortfilm #studentfilm #sjsu #shrunkenheadmen

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Let's take a look at some early tule doll designs! Before deciding on a final look, our team played around with various colors, textures and weaving styles.

first slide @rachemari
second slide @ealaisanelken

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We are happy to share that Tule has been screened at 25 film festivals, additionally shown to over 20,000 students through school programs, and collecting awards along the way🥰💫

While our film will continue to show in a few more festivals and events, this post marks the end of our main festival run.
We are deeply filled with gratitude that we have had the opportunity to share our film in so many supportive spaces. Thank you to everyone who has come up to us at screenings to share how they connected with the film and thank you to the festivals for giving us a platform to share our message.

What started as a seed of an idea🌱, has grown into something far more beautiful than we imagined and we are excited to see the film continue to stretch its branches when we officially release the film in just 4 days on July 26th!🌲

Swipe for a sweet message from our very own director Jocelyn💕

#animation #animatedfilm #animatedshort #animatedshortfilm #native #nativeart #nativevoices #awardwinningfilm #tule #pomo #lakecountyca #clearlakeca #culturalcelebration #culturalrespect #sanjosestate #shrunkenheadmanclub #sffilm

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We are thrilled to share our most recent film festival acceptances! Our film has been traveling around the world to places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and even New Zealand! 🐟🌱✨

🌟Festival spotlight: Next week we will be at the Naturetrack Film Festival in Goleta, CA, an amazing nature-focused festival from October 11-13th. Keep an eye out for our event experience in our stories.🌴🌞

In addition to these wonderful acceptances, the film has been featured at special Native community events such as the 2024 Annual Tule Boat Race Festival, SJSU Native Graduation, and more. We are so grateful to have touched so many hearts with our film and we cannot wait to continue spreading our film far and wide. More updates to come!

Thank you to all of our family, friends, professors and Kickstarter supporters that have made this project and our festival acceptances possible ❤️

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(Turn your phone! 🔄)

Today is the day! Tule is now publicly available on Instagram and Youtube. 🌱

We are so excited to finally share our film with the world. Thank you to all the professors, volunteers, interviewees, the Pomo community, family and friends who have cheered us on from the start.

If you resonate with the film, please feel free to share with friends and family, and interact with this post, share and like on Youtube (link in our bio) so we can bump those algorithms and reach more audiences. For the best viewing experience, watch from Youtube on a big screen set to HD with a good sound system. Thank you for watching :)

This film was created from June 2023–May 2024 as a BFA thesis project in the San Jose State University Animation Program. For inquiries, email us at tule.film.sjsu@gmail.com

Director: Jocelyn Garcia
Producer: Rie Peredo
Art Director: Rachel Huang
Core Visual Development Artist: Ealaisa Nelken

“Together, let us honor this land and this water and continue the work of those who first embraced this land in harmony.” 🌅✨

https://youtu.be/7IpgSwrxoUM?si=4cU8vdzuiU83CvSG

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✨Tule will be publicly released on July 26! ✨

Our short film will be available on YouTube and Instagram, where you can watch it as many times as you please. We cannot wait to share our film with the world. Until then, keep your eye out for our festival laurels and award posts 🙂

Poster by @rachemari

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Over the past year, Tule has received 11 awards and nominations for Best Animation, Best Student film, Youth Program, and more out of our 20+ festival acceptances! Our film Director Jocelyn and Art Director Rachel were lucky enough to attend a few of these festivals and receive the awards in person. Here are a few shots of these special moments💕

💥 Also! EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! Tule will be screening at the San Diego Comic Con on Friday, July 25th at 3pm alongside other animation-related films and panels. Although the team will not be at the event, we are so excited and honored for the film to be screened at such a notable event 😭 If anyone is interested in attending, you can find more info about the convention’s festival schedule at the link in our bio ✨ If anyone attends, please tag us and let us know!

1. Jocelyn @joceyg_art receiving Best Animation award at the LA SKINS Festival in Hollywood, CA

2. Rachel @rachemari receiving Best Student Film award at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, CA

3. Jocelyn and Rachel receiving Honorable Mention at the Naturetrack Film Festival in Goleta, CA

4. Close up of the beautiful wooden Youth Program award from the International Wildlife Film Festival

5. All the award laurels (not pictured: NatureTrack Honorable Mention)

6. Tule showing at Comic Con! (Festival details at link in bio)

#animation #animatedshort #pomo #nativeart #tule #culturalrestoration #shortfilmmaking #laskinsfest #wildandscenicfilmfestival #naturetrackfilmfestival #comiccon2025 #comiccon

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Around a year ago from today marks when we screened Tule to a theater audience for the very first time at the Hammer Theater in San Jose. Since then, Tule has gone on to screen in over 25 festivals around the world, as far as New Zealand and Finland! 🌎💫

Let us look back on some of the wonderful memories we have created since then, attending CA film festivals in Los Angeles, Nevada City, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and San Jose. Thank you to all the festival organizers who have welcomed us and to all the inspiring filmmakers we have connected with for making our festival run an experience we will never forget ❤️

Keep an eye out for our laurels and some exciting announcements <3

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1) Cinequest in San Jose, CA
2-3) SFFILM festival in San Francisco, CA
4-5) LA SKINS festival in Los Angeles, CA
6-7) Wild&Scenic festival in Nevada City, CA
8-9) Naturetrack festival in Santa Barbara, CA
10) Bernal Heights festival in San Francisco, CA
11-12) BFA Thesis events from last May 2024. Group pic with project advisor Chris Zollna :)

SFFilm pic photo credit to Terry Dudley

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What a fantastic weekend (October 11 - 13) celebrating the beauty of nature and the art of filmmaking at the NatureTrack Film Festival held in Goleta for the 2nd year in a row and the first time at the Camino Real Marketplace. 🌟

This year, the Festival included more than 80 films highlighting nature and adventure from more than 30 countries. Last night, October 13, the Festival closed with a party to announce the winners. Here is a list:
🎬 Best Feature Film: “Animal Pride” directed by Rio Mitchell
🎬 Best Short Film: “L'età Sperimentale” directed by Marco Zingaretti
🎬 Best Student Film: “Against the Herd” directed by Jaxon Derow
🎬 Dan Conoway – Kids Connecting with Nature Award: “Two Point Four” directed by Natasha Brooks
🎬 Audience Award: “Ploverize” directed by Alex Spell, Vivian Chou, Rigo Gomez, Hope Macias, LiLi Young
🎬 Honorable Mention: “Hunt for the Oldest DNA” directed by Niobe Thompson
🎬 Honorable Mention: “Giants Rising” directed by Lisa Landers
🎬 Honorable Mention: “Tule” directed by Jocelyn Garcia

We want to congratulate all the talented filmmakers who were a part of the Festival, many who traveled long distances to be here, and the incredible films that received awards. 🏅

A big thank you to the entire NatureTrack Film Festival team and volunteers for their hard work in bringing this cinematic celebration of nature to Goleta. 🌿

If you missed it, make sure to get this must-see event on your calendar when the dates for next year are announced! For more info, please visit: https://www.naturetrackfilmfestival.org/
#NatureTrack #NatureTrackFilmFestival #FilmFestival #Films #Local #Nature #Art #Outdoor #CityofGoleta

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Qué fin de semana tan fantástico (del 11 al 13 de octubre) celebrando la belleza de la naturaleza y el arte de hacer cine en el Festival de Cine NatureTrack celebrado en Goleta por segundo año consecutivo y la primera vez en Camino Real Marketplace. 🌟

Este año, el Festival incluyó más de 80 películas que destacan la naturaleza y la aventura de más de 30 países. Anoche, 13 de octubre, se cerró el Festival con una fiesta para anunciar a los ganadores. 🌿

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Finally excited to share some personal art I’ve done over the last couple months. I had the honor of working with some wonderful teammates BFA year. So I did a little cosplay fan art of the Tule team as Sailor scouts hehe since they are superheroes in my eyes. Had a ton of fun with these 💖✨🌙💫⚡️🔥

#sailormoon #cosplay #art #illustration #instaart #digitalart

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I must honor my nomination and post about the BFA celebration. If anyone else did that, I’ll have to duel you irl :/ that’s the rule. But omg didn’t expect to cry and laugh 🥹🥹I love yall and I love being in this program FIRE IT UPP!! I will spam my posts with more photos of my besties

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