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<br /> Lumiere Award at the New Orleans Film Festival for Snake Tales.
<br /> Best Music at the Zoie Film Festival,Atlanta GA,for Snake Tales.
<br /> Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival,for Snake Tales.
<br /> Audience Award at ValleyFest,Knoxville,TN,for Snake Tales.
<br /> GRANTS AND SIGNIFICANT FUNDING
<br /> 2011 Institute for the Arts and Humanitites'Innovation Fund Award($50,000),
<br /> for The Uncanny Valley.
<br /> 2009 For The Bathysphere:
<br /> Humanities and Fine Arts Award,UNC-Chapel Hill($10,000),
<br /> University Research Council,UNC-Chapel Hill:Research Grant($2,000)
<br /> Performing Arts Award,UNC-Chapel Hill($1,000)
<br /> 2004 University Research Center,UNC-Chapel Hill:Publication grant($750),
<br /> for Gallery Show at DesignBox,Raleigh.
<br /> 2003 Junior Faculty Development grant($5,000)
<br /> 2002 University Research Center,UNC-Chapel Hill:Publication grant($2,700),
<br /> for The Planets.
<br /> ITVS:The Independent Television Service,funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
<br /> ($20,000),for Poetry in Motion.
<br /> Latino Public Broadcasting($5,000),for Poetry in Motion.
<br /> 2001 City of Austin Cultural Contract($8,000),for Poetry in Motion.
<br /> 2000 City of Austin Cultural Contract($10,000),for Poetry in Motion.
<br /> 1998 Jamail Dean's Excellence Fund,U.T.Austin,($5,000)for Snake Tales.
<br /> 1997 City of Austin Cultural Contract($6,000)for Snake Tales.
<br /> 1996 Texas Filmmakers'Production Fund Award($3,000)for Snake Tales.
<br /> REVIEWS(excerpted)
<br /> For PERICLES,as video designer at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival,The Folger,and The Guthrie,
<br /> January 2015-February 2016:
<br /> Francesca Talenti provides animated video projections at the back of the stage that feature swirling celestial
<br /> images suggestive of"the music of the spheres,"a phrase in the play.
<br /> —Charles Isherwood,The New York Times
<br /> Set designer Jan Chambers works in concert here with video designer Francesca Talenti to conjure angry
<br /> sea squalls via a swinging platform and a projection of galloping ocean waves;in other instances,a
<br /> backdrop darkens to reveal a lovely starry canopy in the night sky,out of which a gracious god like Diana
<br /> can propitiously appear.
<br /> —Peter Marks,The Washington Post
<br /> Haj owes his technical crew mightily.Francesca Talenti's video designs evoke the cosmos with stars,
<br /> tempests and moons --- meshed with Rut Rita's lighting scheme and Jan Chambers'multiplatform set of
<br /> what appear to be large plates of marble shards,
<br /> --Graydon Royce,StaiTribune Minneapolis
<br /> For THE UNCANNY VALLEY,as writer/director for theater at The Brick,Brooklyn,October 2014:
<br /> The Uncanny Valley is technically impressive and intellectually haunting,forcing the audience to face the
<br /> growing role of technology in our world.
<br /> —Sarah Lucie,Show Business Weekly
<br /> An inventive cybernetic fairy tale... staged with poetic grace,both touching and ominous.
<br /> —Rachel Kerry,New York Theater Review
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