University of Arizona School of Media Arts students Bobby Fricke, Shawn Florchak, Sean Sullivan, and Jonathan Weber are currently interning at the NATPE Conference and Exhibition at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Special Guest Speaker Brooke Sebold will moderate discussions throughout the Fabulous Faygeleh Film Festival, January 30-31.
To see a complete schedule of films, please visit:
http://tucsonjcc.org/film_festival/schedule.shtml
Brooke Sebold is a documentary and narrative filmmaker currently based in New York City. In 2007, Brooke (with film collaborators Todd and Benita Sills) completed her first feature-length documentary, Red Without Blue, which received over 20 audience-choice and jury awards, and screened at 150+ film festivals, universities, and museums. Brooke’s films have garnered glowing reviews from Variety, The SF Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, The Advocate and dozens of other publications. Brooke is currently a Dean’s Fellow in Columbia University’s MFA Film Program.
(At Grand Cinemas Crossroads 6*, at Grant & Swan)
The Hanson Film Institute is a proud sponsor of the Tucson International Jewish and Faygeleh Film Festival.
Through the magic and power of cinema, The Tucson Jewish Film Festival strives to promote the preservation of Jewish culture by providing an open and inviting forum for films with diverse Jewish themes that would not otherwise find a place for public exhibition in the southern Arizona marketplace. The Festival encourages cultural diversity, intellectual growth and dialogue within the audience it serves by providing a forum for films that challenge long-held assumptions and stereotypes.
To see a complete schedule of films, please visit:
http://tucsonjcc.org/film_festival/schedule.shtml
The Hanson Film Institute is a proud sponsor of the Tucson International Jewish and Fabulous Faygeleh LGBT Film Festival.
Chelsea Coles (BFA 09) has signed as a music video director with a music video and commercial company called Current Content Creation. She is currently in pre-production for her third music video for a Los Angeles band called Ansel (not Anvil). Rock on Chelsea!
My Eyes Were Fresh: The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann
Tuesday January 26, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography
1030 N. Olive Road
"My Eyes Were Fresh," a 30-minute film by Jane Levy Reed, is an intimate portrait of the artist narrated by Gutmann in a series of filmed interviews and commentaries recorded in the years just prior to his death in 1998. It profiles his art and life, both of which helped forge a link between the European modernism of the early 20th century and the burgeoning artistic culture of the San Francisco Bay Area in the second half of the century.
The film will be introduced by Jennifer Jenkins, Associate Professor of Media Arts, who teaches film history at the University of Arizona.
The University of Arizona Hanson Film Institute and the School of Media Arts present a four-day Symposium on African American Filmmakers at The University of Arizona.
University of Arizona students, faculty, and Southern Arizona community members are invited to experience “In Our Own Voice: African American Film Makers Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, and Noland Walker.” The four-day symposium will be free and open to the public and take place Wednesday, February 3 through Saturday, February 6, 2010.
Day one of the symposium will examine the “Representation of Race in the Media” with visiting guest film scholar Pearl Bowser. She will discuss and screen her award-winning documentary Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies, co-directed with Bestor Cram. Midnight Ramble tells the story of “race movies,” films made primarily by, for and about the black community from 1910 through 1950. The screening and discussion of Midnight Ramble will take place on Wednesday, February 3, 4:00 pm-6:00 pm at the School of Media Arts - Louise Foucar Marshall Building, 845 N Park Avenue, Room 212.
Guest film scholars Pearl Bowser and Dr. John Howard will examine race movies and discuss the work of maverick independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux on the second day of the symposium. Oscar Micheaux - the most prolific African American filmmaker to date - was a filmmaking giant of the silent period. Their presentation will be followed by a screening of Micheaux’s provocative Body and Soul.
The discussion of filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and the screening of Body and Soul; directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Paul Robeson, with live piano accompaniment by Suzanne Knosp, will take place on Thursday, February 4, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm at the School of Music - Holsclaw Hall, 1017 N Olive Road, Room 100A.
“Oscar Micheaux continues to be an inspiration to the independent filmmaking community and lovers of landmark cinema,” said Vicky Westover, Institute Program Director. Westover goes on to say, “Micheaux worked outside of the system with little funding or support and was not afraid to take on difficult societal issues that continue to resonate with audiences today. His passion and intrepid desire to create work confronting racism and oppression is clearly visible in his distinguished repertoire of films.”
Pearl Bowser is a film scholar, author, and consultant specializing in African American cinema. She is the founder and director of African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary African American and African films and memorabilia. Her producer credits include Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies and Namibia Independence Now!
John Howard holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, an M.A. from New York University, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Pace University. His latest book, Faces in the Mirror: Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, examines the lives and works of two directors whose biographies define the history of African Americans in film and reflect changes in the larger society as it struggles to come to grips with race.
A presentation, screening, and book signing will take place on Friday, February 5 at the Gallagher Theater in the Student Union, from 4:00 pm-7:30 pm. The book signing, with Howard and Bowser, will take place following a presentation and 35mm print screening of the critically acclaimed Do The Right Thing; directed by Spike Lee.
John Howard’s talk will place Spike Lee in historical context by comparing his career to that of Oscar Micheaux. Spike Lee came of age after the ‘coons’ and ‘mammies’ of traditional Hollywood fare had given way to less demeaning portrayals of blacks, but no black in the history of Hollywood had sustained a career behind the camera as a director at the time he entered film school.
Documentary Filmmaker Noland Walker will present an overview of his work and show clips of Citizen King, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, and Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story on Saturday, February 6, 4:00 pm-6:00 pm, at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building Auditorium (Room 202) on 1130 N Mountain Ave (corner of Speedway & Mountain).
Noland Walker is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose films have premiered at Sundance, screened in festivals worldwide, and been broadcast nationally on television. His work includes writing and co-producing the acclaimed documentary, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, co-producing and co-directing Citizen King, a two-hour film about the last years of Martin Luther King’s life, and producing an episode of the groundbreaking 1998 series Africans in America.
“We are delighted to be showcasing the important work of independent filmmaker Noland Walker,” said Westover. “He is part of a new generation of African American filmmakers and is creating some of the most interesting documentaries of our time.”
The School of Media Arts prepares students to create, to produce, and to understand the significance of film and television. It sustains excellence in the teaching of creative expression, aesthetic appreciation, practical knowledge, and scholarship of film, television, related media and their relationships to other arts. The School provides professional preparation in the art of filmmaking, as well as preparing students for scholarly activity in media arts. It encourages interdisciplinary teaching and research within the College of Fine Arts and promotes public understanding of media through outreach in Arizona and the Southwest.
The Jack and Vivian Hanson Arizona Film Institute (Hanson Film Institute) at The University of Arizona offers programs for students, emerging filmmakers, and media entrepreneurs who want to contribute significantly to the art and/or business of filmmaking and have an influential role in the film industry. Serving diverse, underrepresented, and new voices, the Hanson Film Institute creates and advances a dynamic understanding of the collaborative dimensions of the art and business of film. The Hanson Film Institute provides and supports educational programs, public events, and creative projects.
The Institute operates under the auspices of The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts and works in partnership with the School of Media Arts. The Institute collaborates with interested divisions at The University and with diverse community organizations.
For more information about the four-day Symposium, the School of Media Arts, or the Hanson Film Institute contact Vicky Westover, Program Director, at vwestove@email.arizona.edu
or 520-626-9825.
“Flame & Citron” features Mads Mikkelsen and will screen at the 19th Annual Tucson International Jewish Film Festival tonight.
Flame & Citron
Tucson Jewish Community Center
Wednesday, January 20 • 7 p.m.
Denmark/Czech Republic/Germany, 2009, 130 minutes (subtitles)
This compelling film based on survivors’ accounts sheds new light on the Danish response during their Nazi occupation. In 1944 two underground partisans in Copenhagen have achieved hero status. But their orders have become contradictory and they don’t know who among their colleagues can be trusted.
The Hanson Film Institute is a proud sponsor of the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival.
"There are angels on the streets of Berlin."
WINGS OF DESIRE will screen at The Loft as a part of the ESSENTIAL CINEMA series.
Tuesday, January 19th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission: FREE
**$5.00 suggested donation**
See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - with an audience and on the big screen in 35 mm!
"WINGS OF DESIRE is a soaring vision that appeals to the senses and the spirit." - Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
A truly unique cinematic experience, Wenders' acclaimed follow-up to his haunting road movie PARIS, TEXAS captured the Best Director Award at Cannes in 1987.
Essential Cinema is supported in part by The Arizona Commission on the Arts, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arizona Public Media in cooperation with Pima County Public Library is hosting free screenings of upcoming movies from the PBS series Independent Lens. This event is free and open to the public.
There will also be discussions at the end of each screening and participants can share their views on the film.
Garbage Dreams will be showing at Joel D. Valdez Main Library Tonight! 6 pm!
6:00-7:45pm on
Wednesday, January 13th in the Lower
Level 1 Meeting Room of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library
GARBAGE DREAMS
Welcome to the world’s largest garbage village located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The Zabbaleen (Arabic for garbage people) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect—far more than other recycling initiatives. But now multi-national corporations threaten their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys born into the business who are forced to make choices that will impact the survival of their community.
Callie Miller handles a Civil War rifle on the set of "The Big Job" film.