2008 Woodie Awards
Film festival to bring variety of indies
By: Ellen Rogers
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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The Ann Arbor Film Festival will drop by campus this week.
The annual event will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium.
"It's a good opportunity for anyone wanting to see something out of the ordinary," said Stephanie Mathson, assistant libraries professor and the program's coordinator. "There are award-winning films that will be shown."
Mathson said there will be a variety of short independent films shown, including animations, documentaries and experimental films.
The event is part of the film festival that takes place in March. The tour showcases selected short films from the event.
Mathson said the festival is the oldest of its kind in North America.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival selects 100 independent short films from thousands of entries from around the world.
Mathson said 13 short films will be shown Thursday and 11 on Friday.
One of the films, "Tyger," is the Best Animated Film and Daily Audience Award Winner, and is based on the poem "Tyger" by William Blake, Mathson said.
Another film that will be featured is "Dear Bill Gates," an exploration of society's visual history and culture.
Mark Poindexter, school of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts professor, said the tour only goes to a handful of places around the country and CMU is lucky to be one of them.
"A lot of people think that it's no big deal, but it's pretty impressive that it's here," he said. "They are very interesting and creative works of art that are sometimes made with very low budgets. Movie theaters don't show lots of these short film subjects."
Poindexter said the free event is a good opportunity for students to see films that aren't part of the mainstream and have a wide range of reactions to them.
"Few will find nothing they like. It's just best to go in with an open mind," he said. "You leave with more energy than you go in with."
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The annual event will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium.
"It's a good opportunity for anyone wanting to see something out of the ordinary," said Stephanie Mathson, assistant libraries professor and the program's coordinator. "There are award-winning films that will be shown."
Mathson said there will be a variety of short independent films shown, including animations, documentaries and experimental films.
The event is part of the film festival that takes place in March. The tour showcases selected short films from the event.
Mathson said the festival is the oldest of its kind in North America.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival selects 100 independent short films from thousands of entries from around the world.
Mathson said 13 short films will be shown Thursday and 11 on Friday.
One of the films, "Tyger," is the Best Animated Film and Daily Audience Award Winner, and is based on the poem "Tyger" by William Blake, Mathson said.
Another film that will be featured is "Dear Bill Gates," an exploration of society's visual history and culture.
Mark Poindexter, school of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts professor, said the tour only goes to a handful of places around the country and CMU is lucky to be one of them.
"A lot of people think that it's no big deal, but it's pretty impressive that it's here," he said. "They are very interesting and creative works of art that are sometimes made with very low budgets. Movie theaters don't show lots of these short film subjects."
Poindexter said the free event is a good opportunity for students to see films that aren't part of the mainstream and have a wide range of reactions to them.
"Few will find nothing they like. It's just best to go in with an open mind," he said. "You leave with more energy than you go in with."
news@cm-life.com
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