Raymond Ferris Abelin
Raymond Ferris Abelin (born January 25, 1955) in the Hollywood area of Southern California, is an American motion picture director, screenwriter and academic in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Education[edit]
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Califorina, Abelin attended Hawthorne, Beverly Vista and Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1973. He earned the BA magna cum laude from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1978 and the MA in Production and Professional Writing from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1983. At Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Abelin was also accepted for cross-registered study at the MIT Media Lab, receiving the Master of Design Studies in 1998. In 1999 and over a period of four years, Abelin was the only person in the University of Colorado system selected by the US Fulbright Committee for study in the UK. As a member of Queens' College, Cambridge, his MBA was awarded from Cambridge University, Judge Business School in 2002. The Ph.D. was conferred by the University of Colorado in 2003, with half of doctoral research conducted at the University of Cambridge as a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1]
Career[edit]
Abelin was offered membership in Hollywood's Animation Guild at 18 when he became the youngest in-between animator at Hanna Barbera Productions. Supervised by Robert "Tiger" West, he animated the original Scooby Doo series in the seventies, working his way though the undergraduate film program at UCLA. With interests expanding into dramatic film production and screenwriting while going through USC Cinema's three-year graduate film program, Abelin was eventually sponsored into the Directors Guild of America as an erudite Director Member by Richard Donner. The President of the DGA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Arthur Hiller, asked Abelin to serve on the DGA's first Creative Rights Negotiating Committee. In meetings with the heads of the major Hollywood studios in 1987, they were instrumental in resolving the shortest strike in Hollywood history, which was concurrently the only strike in the history of the DGA.[2] Members of the committee then led the way to landmark congressional legislation addressing creative rights.[3] In Abelin's personal life, however, encounters with much larger social issues resulted in a string of family tragedies, though his socially conscientious family had worked together obtaining 38 state proclamations for the advancement of US Presidents Day.[1] The most public incident involved his aunt, Della Morris. She was one of Los Angeles' Women of the Year in the mid-eighties and became a victim of violent crime in her Palm Springs home in the early nineties.[4][5] Following the California Supreme Court case contending with capital crime and capital punishment, and with encouragement from Arthur Hiller, Abelin was accepted into Harvard's Graduate School of Design and returned to formal study in mid-career.[6]
As the entertainment industry transitioned from analogue to digital technologies, Abelin undertook pioneering interdisciplinary research forwarding the development of interactive digital media being used in E-learning and exploratory M-learning. He developed original theories of Design Narrative and Spatial Drama at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Denver, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[7] At Cambridge, he met Charles Hampden-Turner, one of the world's leading authorities in the field of cross-cultural management and the two have collaborated internationally since 2000.[8]
In collaboration with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Dame Veronica Anne Courtice, DBE LVO, known as Polly Courtice and the Open University, Europe's foremost distance learning institution, Abelin produced and directed the mediated learning model for Cambridge's first distance learning initiative, Learning and the Connected Economy.[9] While he was developing ground-breaking entrepreneurship and technological programs in Singapore,[10] the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation selected the center he was administering as the first Kauffman Campus outside of the United States in 2008.[11][12][13] Furthering cross-cultural exchange, Abelin was an American founding faculty member of what became the largest international summer education programs in South Korea.[14]
Abelin produced and directed Innovation and the Fate of Nations, the first Harvard and Cambridge sanctioned digital cinema project, with Charles Hampden-Turner and other thought leaders in industry, including Lord John Eatwell, Clayton Christensen, Teresa Amabile and Howard H. Stevenson.[15] As an international academic program developer with ties to the Hollywood entertainment industry, Abelin also addressed initiatives in French cinema and Polish higher education.[16][17] He is the 2019 keynote speaker at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 7th Hallyu World Congress. [18]
Selected works[edit]
Can Digital Media Restore a Vital Balance within Civil Society and International Business The Pitfalls of Rationality: Values as Differences to be Reconciled in Comparing Business Cultures in the West to Asia
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Raymond Ferris Abelin". Directors Guild of America. DGA. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
- ↑ Harmetz, Aljean (August 9, 1987). "That's Hollywood, The Strike That Never Was". New York Times. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ Raymond Ferris Abelin on IMDb
- ↑ "Women of the Year Awards". Women of the Year. Los Angeles County Commission for Women. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "Respondent's Brief - California Courts" (PDF). Supreme Court of the State of California. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "Directory of Members". Welcome to Harvard Alumni. Harvard University. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ Abelin, Raymond Ferris (2003). "Design narrative: Spatial drama and its application to virtual environments". The Learning Technology Library. University of Colorado. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ↑ Hampden-Turner, Charles; Trompenaars, Fons (2015). Nine Visions of Capitalism: Unlocking the Meaning of Wealth Creation. Oxford: Infinite Ideas Limited. p. 318. ISBN 978-1-908984-40-1. Retrieved July 20, 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ "Cambridge University/Open University joint project excerpt and Abelin credits (2002)". Learning and the Connected Economy. Open University. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ↑ "Inaugural ideas, Inc. Business Challenge kicks off". NTU, Singapore. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ↑ Hampden-Turner, Charles (2009). Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Building on the Singapore Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. ix, 141–2. ISBN 978-0-521-76070-6. Retrieved July 20, 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ "Asia's first Kauffman Campus to be set up at NTU". American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), EurekAlert Science News Releases. NTU. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ↑ "In the new breed of capitalism, shareholders come last". Human Resources. Lighthouse Independent Media Pte Ltd. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "Korea becomes hot summer-school destination - The Korea Herald". The Korea Herald. July 29, 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ↑ "Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2012, No.1". Innovation and the Fate of Nations. Academy of Management. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Thales Angénieux, sponsor officiel du festival "First Rendezvous with French Cinema à Singapour"". AFCinema (French association of directors of photography). 5 January 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "K+". Kampus +, Warsaw, Poland. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "7th Annual World Congress for Hallyu". Jerusalem - The 7th world congress for Hallyu. World Association for Hallyu Studies. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
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