Please join Film Studies in welcoming our new colleague, Professor Elizabeth Reich on Thursday, April 2nd, 2014 for a talk on Afrofuturism in Film. Professor Reich will start teaching for us in the fall, and she specializes in courses examining representations of race and ethnicity. She will be teaching a first year seminar on Afrofuturism this fall, but she plans to teach an upper level class on the same topic. She will screen Wanuri Kahiu's short film Pumzi, with a discussion and then small reception to follow. 
On Thursday of this year's week-long Contemporary French Film Festival, Professor Ross Morin will be giving a talk on the queer French thriller film, Stranger By The Lake, followed by q&a discussion. Disclaimer: the film features graphic sexual imagery. It also features beautiful shots of trees and sunsets -- so it kinda balances itself out.  This Thursday, Oct. 9th - Dr. Nina Martin will be giving a talk on the terrifying feature film, "Silent House." Come out for pizza, camaraderie, an awesome talk, and a movie that will leave you breathless. 
Film Studies welcomes Academy Award-winning filmmakers Sean Fine ('96) and Andrea Nix to campus as the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation's Distinguished Artists. They will kick off their three-week visit with a screening of their most recent films, Life According to Sam and Inocente. During their residency they will be offering hands-on workshops, guest lectures, office hours and countless opportunities for you to meet with them and workshop your own creative film projects. Tomorrow, Monday February 24, there will be an opening reception in the first floor lobby of the Olin Science Center at 6:00pm, followed by a screening of the two films in Olin 014 at 7:00. Sean and Andrea will then discuss their work and answer questions from the audience.  Sean Fine, Connecticut College class of 1996, and Andrea Nix Fine are Academy Award and Emmy award winning filmmakers who specialize in creating visually powerful and authentic portraits of characters who tell their own story. Working as a collaborative team, (they direct together and Sean is the cinematographer), their films have been hailed by critics as “unflinching”, “spirit-raising” and “visually ravishing”. One of their latest films, Inocente, a coming-of-age story about a homeless 15-year-old Latina artist, won the 2013 Oscar for Best Short Documentary.
The Fines current documentary, Life According to Sam, debuted at Sundance and aired on HBO in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards for Best Documentary. Embraced on the festival circuit, the film’s honors include the Heartland Film Festival Award, Nantucket Film Festival’s Audience Award and Best Storytelling Award, the Best of the Fest at the AFI film festival, and the Mountainfilm Festival’s Indomitable Spirit Award. The Fines’ film War/Dance won Emmys for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography in 2009, was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and won the Best Director award at Sundance in 2007.
This week - the Contemporary French Film Festival returns! See flyer below for details: 
 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. |
