Related Information:
Jim Keeshen's Biography
SMC Salary and Courses
AET Course Syllabus
Jim Keeshen Productions
Miscellaneous Projects:
Family Guy
DangerWorld
Super Sue
Inca Mythology
Quantum Physics
Monkey Love
Day of the Dead
Fire Safety
EL DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
(THE DAY OF THE DEAD)
James Keeshen, director, animation, 22 minutes (USA, 2006). The film tells the story of how Max, a small child living in LA, finds out the true meaning of El Día de Los Muertos and reconnects with his Latino heritage thanks to his Mexican grandmother Lucía. On Halloween night, Max and his friends visit Grandma Lucía's house, where she tells them about the celebration of the Day of The Dead and the Aztec cultural traditions. Lucía had set up an ofrenda in her living-room to honor her recently deceased husband, Dionisio. She tells the children the story about Grandpa's beloved pet iguana, Pancho, who was buried in the family cemetery back in Mexico. Her fantastic stories bring Max closer to the Latino cultural traditions, and ultimately helps him to understand the importance of El Día de Los Muertos.
Key Documents:
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California Business License
Studio Animatics Total From SMC
Secret Animatics Contract
Signed Animatics Contract
Wrongfully Using AET's Address
Jim Keeshen Productions Client List
Who benefited from the creation of these vocational programs at AET? Perhaps Rhythm & Hues benefited in that it's Houdini 3D animation software was plugged at the Academy. And of course Jim Keeshen always seems to benefit himself financially at the expense of the public. Rhythm & Hues was a client of Jim Keeshen Productions, Inc. What did Keeshen's company produce? None other than a Colgate 3D commercial, proving Keeshen's theory that "commercials pay the freight."
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James "Jim" Keeshen is a full-time professor of Animation
at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment and Technology (AET).
Keeshen allegedly made AET into his own digital playground, using entertainment industry partners,
faculty and students for his various personal projects (see list on left)
and for his own financial gain under his company,
Jim Keeshen Productions. He
obtained federal and district taxpayers' dollars through secret consultant contracts with
SMC under the fictitious names Animatics and
Studio Animatics.
While at SMC, Keeshen allegedly infringed on copyrights, filed falsified tax information
to the IRS, and used AET industry partners to secure a questionable sabbatical with Klasky Csupo as well as a
Colgate 3D commercial with Rhythm & Hues, providing both companies with kickbacks in the process.
He produced the animated short Monkey Love. He sued Seth
MacFarlane and Fox after producing the Family Guy pilot episode for them.
His current animation project is The Day of the Dead
(a.k.a., El Dia de Los Muertos), which is now being shown at various
film festivals both locally and worldwide.
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