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Internet2 Fall 2002
Digital Film Festival
Wednesday, October 30, 3:00-4:30 PM, CST
Great Hall, Hill University Center, UAB
Internet2 will present a distributed Digital Film Festival in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall 2002 Member Meeting (http://www.internet2.edu/activities/html/fall_02.html). This event will highlight short documentary works by students on the Internet2 member
campuses, including UAB, and showcase the ability to deliver digital film and interactive critiques from experts in the film industry over Internet2.
Students from Internet2 member universities around the country submitted their films to the Digital Film Festival; of the eleven finalists, eight are
from UAB. A panel of judges, all award-winning filmmakers, has selected two winning films from eleven finalists. During the October 30 event, which will be
netcast, judges will announce the winners and critique the films with the student filmmakers who will participate in the discussion through videoconferencing over Internet2.
In addition to viewing the final films on the web (which can be seen at http://programs.researchchannel.com/displayseries.asp?collid=299), two
winning films will be selected from the eleven finalists for discussion and critique with award winning film experts at Wednesday's event, to be netcast live in the
Great Hall at the Hill University Center. Attending the event at UAB will be some of the student producers of the eight selected finalist films as well as Rosie
O'Beirne, Michelle Forman, and Lori Cormier, the three people responsible for the Ethnographic Filmmaking class at UAB from which the films originated.
The following UAB-produced films are part of this series:
- In Search of the Dude (Mason Isbell and Wayne Skipper)
- Brown Paper Bag (Tom Dalby and Janice Weeks)
- This is Just a Game (Brock Owen and John Fields)
- Wounded (Brittney Pietrzak and Val Bowden)
- House of Prayer (David Gathings, Corine Sinnette and Emily Simon)
- Shoot (Ingrid Atkinson and Melanie Norris)
- African/American (Glenny Brock and Scott Silver)
- Hope Lodge (Lindsey Elmore and Theresa Bodon)
Each of these films is available for download or streaming view at http://programs.researchchannel.com/displayseries.asp?collid=299.
Ethnographic Filmmaking/"Guerilla Filmmaking in Anthropology" is an
innovative partnership between the Anthropology and Art departments that teaches students to produce a digital video community education site called
"The Street," hosted at the McWane Center Science Museum; an on-site kiosk will show student films to demonstrate what can be taught in a single semester course.
Rosie O'Beirne is a research associate at the Center for Urban Affairs at UAB. She is the
co-director of The Street Project, a multi-media exhibit developed through the partnership of the McWane Center and UAB.
Michele Forman is an award winning independent filmmaker. She gained her experience as
Spike Lee's Associate producer on the Academy Award nominated documentary Four Little Girls and was also highlighted in Newsweek as one of the fifteen women to watch in the 21st Century.
Dr. Loretta Cormier is an Assistant professor of Anthropology at UAB. She is an ecological
anthropologists specializing in Amazon Indians. She also works with the Guaja Indian, a hunter-gatherer group in the Brazilian rain forest.
Together, along with Janice Kluge of UAB Art department, they co-teach an interdisciplinary and experimental class called "Ethnographic filmmaking in
Anthropology," which teaches students how to document and analyze aspects of human social life using video technology and the methodologies of anthropology.
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