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Subject: Festival Tour Announcement (fwd)
Author:  Dave Kluft <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    7/12/95 12:31 AM
 
 
ANNOUNCING THE TOURING SEASON OF THE 1995 UFVA STUDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
 
Now in our third year, the UFVA Student Film & Video Festival is the
world's only touring festival of student work. Independently oriented,
and open
to both film and video from around the globe, each year the festival
surveys and
presents the best in student work worldwide.
 
This year, we received over 480 entries from 17 countries
and 34 states.  39 films and videos were chosen for the festival
premiere, which takes place each year at the annual University Film and
Video Association Conference.  This will be followed by a national tour
of
the festival's best work (last year's tour included screenings at the
American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, the Neighborhood Film/Video Project
in
Philadelphia, the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and
elsewhere).
Our festival premiere will take place this year during the first week of
August, and our touring season will run from mid-August to early March
1996.  The touring package will include original format 16mm
film and 3/4" video. The cumulative length of the touring group will run
several hours, which will allow programmers to pick and choose a program
from among this work which is best suited for their particular audience
and format limitations. The cost of renting the festival package is $200
plus shipping costs. Half the proceeds are paid back to the artists. To
schedule a screening, or for more info, feel free to call me at
1-800-499-8382 (or 215-923-3532) or email.
- Dave Kluft, Festival Director
 
SOME OF THIS YEAR'S FILMS & VIDEOS INCLUDE....
 
A Bit of a Tiff with the Lord
by Peter Duncan
16mm, 25 minutes, Australian Film, TV & Radio School (Australia) Undergrad
Late one night, on his property in far western New South Wales, an old
man in pain goes out hunting and manages to bag God.
....past screenings include the Melbourne & Brisbane International Film
Festivals in Australia.
Narrative Finalist
 
Las Alas de Alicia  (Alice's Wings)
by Alejandro Cant Medero
16mm, 16 minutes, University Center of Cinema Studies (Mexico), Undergrad
Alice was born good. She has wings to fly with, but they get stolen. She
then sets off on a trip to recover them.  An homage to George Melies and Ren
Magritte.
... past screenings include the Caracas Festival of Short Films, and the
Short Film Festival of Chile, where it received an honorable mention.
Experimental Finalist
 
The Architect
by Adam Keker
16mm, 12 minutes, New York University (U.S.) Graduate
A Ukrainian coal miner and his grandson struggle with the loss of the
boy's parents in World War II by designing a city of the dead.
... past screenings include the Rotterdam International Film Festival,
Ann Arbor, and the Chicago International Film Festival.
Experimental Finalist
 
Doors Without Hinges
by David Cripton
16mm, 10 minutes, Vancouver Film School (Canada) Graduate
Carla Dodge, an agoraphobic who has not left her house in a year, must
deal with her husband's insensitivity and summon the courage to overcome
her fear.
 
Home
by Nir Ne'Eman
16mm, 9 minutes, Tel-Aviv University (Israel) Undergraduate
A 17 year-old boy tries to achieve a relationship with an older man,
after a casual sexual encounter.
Narrative Finalist
 
Hub Cap World
by L.K. Noller
16mm, 53 minutes, Columbia University (U.S.), Graduate
Joey is a blue collar guy who works in a hubcap shop, driving a beat up
pick-up truck on the pot-holed road to romance. When he finally decides
it's time to marry his pregnant girlfriend Louise, pal Paul has words of
advice and comfort: "You're a dead man.  I don't want nothin' to do with
this."
... has won awards at ten international festivals, including the Manheim
International Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival.
Narrative Finalist
 
Jirohachi
by Tsukuru Imanishi
35mm, 37 m., Loyola Marymount/Kyoto Film Institute(U.S./Japan) Graduate
Jirohachi returns home after two years of captivity, only to discover his
fiancee has married his best friend.  Set vividly against the backdrop of
17th century Japan, Jirohachi evokes the moral atmosphere and cultural
conventions of the time.
... premiered in April at the 5th Bi-Annual Student Film Screening of the
Director's Guild of America.
Narrative Honorable Mention
 
Juvenilia
by Paulo Sacramento
35mm, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) Graduate
A disturbing and violent episode, depicted in still photos.
...screened at the Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, and was
awarded "Best Film" at Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois.
Experimental Finalist
 
Left Alone with Night
by Erik Deutschman
16mm, 8 minutes, Los Angeles City College (U.S.) Undergraduate
Three nocturnal dimensions reveal in organic abstraction.
... past screenings include the Madrid Experimental Film Festival, Big
Muddy Film Festival, Chicago Underground Filmfest, and the Onion City
Film Festival, where it won an Audience Choice award.
Experimental Finalist
 
Mortal Anguish
by Phearuth Tuy
Computer Animation, 1m, Ringling School of Art & Design (U.S.) Undergrad
A visual memory of a painful and torturous escape and immigration from
Cambodia to the U.S.
Animation Finalist
 
Oat-Meal
by Relah Eckstein
16mm, 8 minutes, Los Angeles City College (U.S.) Undergraduate
An unemployed Artist's oatmeal is poisoned with hallucinogenic bug balls
by his fashion conscious Wife and their dimwitted chambermaids.
... has been screened at over 15 festivals, including Mill Valley, the
New York Expo of Short Film, Big Muddy, and Ann Arbor.
Experimental Finalist
 
Peek A Boo
by Eun-Ha Paek
16mm, 5 minutes, Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.) Undergraduate
A little boy comes to terms with his night-time fears.
A collage of flat animation, puppets, cut-outs, super-8 and computer
animation.
 ... first prize at the New Jersey Young Filmmakers Festival.
Animation Finalist
 
Pepino Mango Nance
by Bann Roy & Gillian Goslinga
16mm, 11 minutes, University of Southern California (U.S.) Graduate
The gritty survival story of Marta-Julia Lemus, one of Los Angeles'
unlicensed street vendors who is constantly on the run from the police,
paralleled with the work of Joseph Julian Gonzales, a Latino composer
challenging musical genres by composing a string quartet around the
vendor's "cantaletas".
Documentary Finalist
 
Spoken Flesh
by Anthony Tenczar
3/4", 13 minutes, University of Texas at Austin (U.S.) Graduate
A rendering of the physical and psychological realities of seven people
who have extensively adorned their bodies through tattooing and piercing.
Documentary Finalist
 
Tenacity
by Paul Mezey (Producer) & Chris Eyre (Director)
16mm, 10 minutes, New York University (U.S.) Graduate
Two Native American boys, Clint and Joseph, encounter a pick-up truck on
a reservation road.  An impulsive act and a clash of wills leads to a
dangerous confrontation.
... screenings include the Sundance & Cairo Film Festivals.
Narrative Finalist
 
Tiempo de Alar (Time to Haul)
by Jorge Enrique Lumbreras
3/4", 8 minutes, Instituto de Arte Cinematografico (Argentina) Graduate
A bleak and surreal allegory of political repression and spiritual triumph.
Other animated works by Jorge Enrique Lumbreras  include "El Otro Viaje",
the story of how the Native Americans discovered Europe.
Animation Finalist
 
Vanessa, The Orange Thrower
by Kimberly Caviness
16mm, 29 minutes, Boston University (U.S.) Graduate
A Puerto Rican teenager in Boston creates problems for herself, her
family, and her community when she lies about being pregnant in order to
get attention.
... screenings include the Coolidge Corner Theater and the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston.
Narrative Finalist
 
You Don't Know Trudy Luscher
by Johannes Kley
16mm, 20 minutes, Hochschule Konrad Wolf (Germany) Undergraduate
Trudy Luscher, 87, wonders what happened to Miss Grul, 91, from across
the street. She hasn't called her for a while. "I wonder.... is she dead?"
... has been screened at several festivals in Germany, Poland and Finland.
Documentary Finalist
 
Zeuf
by Charlotte Lagarde
16mm, 4 minutes, Stanford University (U.S.) Graduate
Zeuf, a surfer, nurse, and breast cancer survivor, challenges typical
associations with the illness; a woman with dignity and pride.
Documentary Finalist
 
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