Practicum Film: Honest, Abe.

Abraham Lincoln, American icon, born in the Kentucky wilderness February 12, 1809. Or was he? For over 150 years, the people of Western North Carolina have kept a legend alive that controverts the traditional Lincoln birth story. Their story holds that the nation’s sixteenth president was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, in 1806 – and his father was not Tom Lincoln.

Honest, Abe. a film by Mary Lopez

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Practicum Film: Elsewhere

A young man returns to a familiar place where things are not how he left them.

Elsewhere, a film by Mike Paulucci

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Practicum Film: 1. Stop. 2. Jump. 3. Go.

The story of a person obsessed with numbers, measurements, and calculation.  These compulsions help one to make order out of the disorder of life. But, when even the regimented day to day becomes too much how do we escape the counting?

1. Stop. 2. Jump. 3. Go. a film by Cangey Gentry

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Practicum Film: Women Wear Pants

An experimental portrait of three women inspired by visual artist Andy Warhol and fashion designer Betsy Johnson, who was not allowed to be married while wearing pants in 1967.

Women Wear Pants a film by Cara Clark

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Balance Accepted into the National Student Academy Award Competition

MFA candidate, Debra Sea’s experimental short, Balance has been selected as one of  three films to represent Region II in the Alternative category at the Student Academy Awards, judging at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.  It now only awaits a vote by the Academy.  The film will screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center in a free public screening at 6:30 pm on Monday, April 26, along with other regional winners. There will be a reception in our lobby at 5:45 pm that day, also free and open to the public.

balance has screened at the following festivals:

Cucalorus
Carrboro
Black Maria
Big Muddy
Carolina Film and Video
Ann Arbor
Chatham Arts
Appalachian
Gene Siskel Center in Chicago on Monday, 4/26
Athens International (Ohio) on Tuesday, 4/27

Won awards at:

UNCG Sustainability–3rd prize

Reynolda – Best Experimental Film

Clark and Ingram Win Awards at Indie Grits Film Festival

At the 2010 Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina,
MFA candidate Cara Clark won the Student Award for her short documentary,
“Sylvia and George.”  Assistant Professor Brett Ingram won the Grand Jury
Prize and the Southern Lens award for his documentary feature “Rocaterrania.”

Practicum Film: It’s Cool.

George is awoken.  Like The Matrix.

It’s Cool. a film by Grayson Tyler Johnson

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Practicum Film: The Hummingbird

An elderly man rescues a hummingbird who has flown astray.

The Hummingbird a film by Debra Sea

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Practicum Film: Ranger Jim Ranger; Episode 2: “Harmony”

When Jim discovers that the animals have been littering in the forest, he punishes them by revoking their electricity privileges. Deprived of Sands of Time, their favorite soap opera, the animals try to convince Jim that packaged food and television have brought more to the forest than empty boxes.

Ranger Jim Ranger: “Harmony”.  A film by Rick Dillwood

Playing Thursday, May 6th at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Alum Emily Spivey writing for “Parks and Recreation”

Emily Spivey (’93) has changed jobs.  Emily has been a staff writer on “Saturday Night Live” since 2001.  She now will be writing for “Parks and Recreation,” the NBC sitcom starring SNL alum Amy Poehler.  Emily and her husband Scott Philbrook (’93), an editor, made the move back to LA this month.  Prior to working on SNL, Emily had been a writer on “Mad TV” and “King of the Hill.”