Behind the Scenes: A Festival Symposium
Led by Harry Chotiner
This four-day course will introduce college and adult learners to leading screenwriters, directors and producers. Led by NYU film professor and former Twentieth Century Fox vice president Harry Chotiner, the symposium will meet behind the scenes and talk about film production and reception with Festival guest artists and producers. Participants will receive tickets to selected Festival screenings.
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Accented Cinema: A Short-Course
With Film Festival Fellow Hamid Naficy
This short course will explore select festival films on their own terms as products of a particular [dis]location of their makers in time and place, in social life, and in film and media industries. It examines the extent to which these films arise from a new production mode and result in an “accented” style. Prof. Naficy is the John Evans Professor of Communication at Northwestern University and is the Virginia Film Festival’s inaugural Film Fellow. He has produced many educational films and experimental videos and has published extensively about theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas. His many publications include such well-known titles as An Accented Cinema, The Making of Exile Cultures, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, Iran Media Index and the AFI anthology, Home, Exile, Homeland. The course is offered to UVa students only, for 1 credit.
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