I Dream in Widescreen
The School of Media Arts 2009 BFA Thesis Films
Friday May 15, 2009
6:00 pm doors open, 7:30 pm screening
The Tucson Music Hall, Downtown Tucson, FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Fire breathing dragons, at-risk musical youth, Ron Jeremy and more! Students graduating from the School of Media Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts program at The University of Arizona will screen their senior thesis films at I Dream in Widescreen. This popular, standing-room-only event is the culmination of the skills, knowledge and creative vision fostered by the highly selective Media Arts BFA program in film and video production. Students from the program will present their films at major film festivals, such as 2006 alumnus Jonathan Pulley, whose film Move Me played in the Sundance Film Festival.
Slated for this year’s screening is an unusually diverse and ambitious array of films written, directed, and crewed by Media Arts students and starring talent from throughout the Tucson community. Ranging from Scott Silver’s Sui-Sci-Fi Musical, a hilarious spin on the teen musical genre, to Ariela Stern’s The Inheritance, a poignant meditation on Jewish identity, to It’s American! a send-up of 1970s exploitation films, starring none other than Ron Jeremy the star of Deep Throat himself, to The Wind and Hills a fantasy epic about a fiddler turned dragonslayer, this year’s I Dream in Widescreen will also feature a comedic series of commercial spots written, directed and produced by Rhys Stover and a music video for local band Holy Rolling Empire directed by Chelsea Coles. The films will be followed by a lively question and answer session with all of the graduating filmmakers.
A local tradition started at The Loft Cinema, I Dream in Widescreen drew 800 people to the Fox Tucson last year and expects to draw an even bigger crowd this year to The Tucson Music Hall. “The School of Media Arts is excited about taking the stage at The Tucson Music Hall, in the center of Tucson’s historic downtown arts district,” said Lisanne Skyler, Assistant Professor in the School of Media Arts and producer of this free screening.
I Dream in Widescreen is made possible by support from The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts Small Grants Program,The Hanson Film Institute, The Student-Faculty Interaction Program and the School of Media Arts.
more info
Meg Askey | mgaskii@email.arizona.edu
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