hi there, i just rec'd this email today. is this a new event for 2010, or is this an old posting. just checked the wellesley website and i found this as an event from last year. thanks! leah ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcia Butzel <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010 5:07 am Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] New Directions in Documentary Film Festival & Symposium To: [log in to unmask] > On 10/12/09 9:24 PM, "Maria San Filippo" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > The New Directions in Documentary Film Festival & Symposium, > taking place > October 19-25 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, is a weeklong > screeningseries showcasing formal and conceptual reorientations in > recent American > documentary filmmaking. Albert Maysles will deliver a keynote > address titled > "Handheld and from the Heart," while distinguished documentary > filmmakersDebra Chasnoff, Su Friedrich, Susan Meiselas, Robb Moss, > Llewellyn M. Smith, > and Jessica Yu will present their latest works. In addition, the > programfeatures acclaimed works by up-and-coming filmmakers > Natalia Almada, Liza > Johnson, Amanda Micheli, Laurel Nakadate, and Alexander Olch. > These guests > will join in conversation with noted filmmakers and scholars Robin > Blaetz,Thomas Doherty, Scott MacDonald, Ross McElwee, and Philip > Rosen in an > accompanying symposium featuring panels on auto/biographical > documentary,new documentary aesthetics, and documentary as > political action. > > For more information, please refer to our website > (www.wellesleyfilmfestival.org) and press release > (http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2009/100809.html). > > > Maria San Filippo, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cinema and Media > StudiesSalem Mekuria, Professor of Art and Director, Cinema and > Media Studies Program > Wini Wood, Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program and Cinema and Media > Studies Program > > New Directions Planning Committee > Wellesley College > > [Image:NewDirections Poster2.jpg] > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org