Best of FAVS Showcase
Friday, 9/26 7pm JC Cinema
A 90-minute program celebrating the top films made by Film and Video Studies students during the past four years. Many filmmakers will return to campus for the screening, and a reception with food and drink will follow the films in the JC Cinema lobby.
Films include:
"Hero of Ireland" by Paul O'Halloran (15 min). This fiction film is Paul's Senior Project. It follows a meek boy, tormented by his peers, who finds a role model in his shell-shocked father, a recently returned veteran of the Great War. Paul's movie won the award for Best Film at the Film and Video Studies Spring 2013 Showcase.
Thang La's "Inevitable" (12 min) is a fiction film Senior Project. It follows Rachel, her current activities limited due to a recent heart transplant, as she contemplates a new life with Dave, her high school sweetheart.
"Money or Bunnies" by Christie Jeon (five-minute fiction film and Senior Project). A precocious kid fights for justice against the forces of capitalism. The film won the Jury Award for Best Film at the Film and Video Studies Fall 2013 Showcase.
"We Hallowed Ones" by Micayla Charles (3 min, made for FAVS 365: Documentary Filmmaking), is a poetic and moving rumination on friendship and death.
Ashley Blue's fiction Senior Project, "Wingboys" (17 min.) is a romantic comedy about a young high school teacher named Dan who attempts to educate himself on the world of sex through the sex ed students he is forced to teach. "Wingboys" won the Audience Award and the award for Best Comedy at the Spring 2013 FAVS Senior Showcase.
This event is free and open to the public (and includes free food).
Co-sponsored by GMU's Film and Video Studies, DKA: The Cinematic Arts Fraternity, and Film and Media Studies.
See our GMU Event page.
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