We are delighted to announce that John Sayles, the director of MATEWAN, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, and LONE STAR will be coming to Connecticut College for a day with the community. All day long there will be events, discussions, screenings, and a Q&A session following the screening of AMIGO. He will be sharing stories from the sets, giving behind-the-scenes intel, and discussing the status of independent filmmaking in America.
Tim Sutton, class of '92, returns to screen and discuss his new film, Pavillion. He'll be meeting and talking with students about the independent film industry and offering insights about how to make it as a filmmaker after graduating. Join us Friday, November 11 at 4:30. Come out for a visit with independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt:
When: December 15, 2010-- Director of films "Old Joy" (2006) and "Meek's Cutoff" (2010), Kelly Reichardt screened her award-winning independent film "Wendy and Lucy" (2008), which was filmed along the railroad tracks that surround an Oregon suburb. The film reveals the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times in a both visually stunning and emotionally moving work. The Film Studies Program will welcome to campus animator John Canemaker, who screened several of his short animated works, including "Bottom's Dream" (1984) and "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation" (2005).
"Livingston is the quirky American director and independent filmmaker well known for her 1990 documentary "Paris is Burning," a film about the New York gay and transgender black and Latino ball culture that won the 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. This semester, she is also a visiting professor at Connecticut College. It's an engaging perspective. The students are captivated when Livingston tells a story about an experience with a representative from the Australian Film Commission at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, and they seem star struck when she casually mentions talking to the directors of Quinceañera at Sundance. One student can't contain his excitement when she announces that, as part of her residency, she has arranged for Academy Award-winning animator John Canemaker to screen his work and host a Q&A on Dec. 2, and "Wendy and Lucy" filmmaker Kelly Reichardt to visit campus Dec. 15." Excerpt taken from Connecticut College News Archive. |