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Congratulations to all of the Fall 2016 Lightworks Festival Award Winners!
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Comedy
- Best Comedy - ZOORP Sketch Comedy (DIrector, Jake Ferguson)
- Comedy Runner-up - Message (Director, Shudi Zheng)
Drama
- Best Drama - Recovering (Writer, Carly Keyes; Directors, Yuri Ramocan, Nick Sheehan, Jin Kim, Sara Otto)
- Drama Runner-up - Going Home (Director, Ava Burnham)
Experimental
- Best Experimental - Decomposed (Director, Adrianna O'Brien)
- Experimental Runner-up - Please Clap (Director, Maxim Vinogradov)
Animation
- Best Animation - Produce, Produce (Director, Shelby Polisuk)
- Animation Runner-up - Reintegrate (Director, Kevin Tocco
Cinematography
- Best Cinematography - Decomposed (Director, Sage O'Brien)
- Cinematography Runner-up - Tracks Leading Somewhere (Director, Marissa Butler)
Original Score
- Best Original Score - Please Clap (Composer, Maxim Vinograpdov)
- Original Score Runner-up - Tracks Leading Somewhere (Composer, Katie Burke)
SAC Judges' Honorable Mentions
- Paul Sutherland - Going Home (Director, Ava Burnham)
- David Marek - Produce, Produce (Director, Shelby Polisuk)
- Mary Lou Chlipala - "You There, God?" sketch (Writer/Director, Clare Higgins; Actor, Katrina Anderson) and the cameo appearance as boombox operator by Clare Higgins in the "Dance Off" sketch
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Thank you to FVSA for all of their work throughout the year!
photo: Lightworks transfer day in the SAC Conference Room;
photo credit: Mary Lou Chlipala
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Free Screening of OBIT Followed by a Q & A with Director Vanessa Gould and Writer Bruce Weber
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
8:00 p.m.
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Every morning, a small staff of obituary writers at The New York Times deposits the details of three or four extraordinary lives into the cultural memory – each life’s story spun amid the daily beat of war, politics, and football scores. It’s amazing what goes on in the obits.
OBIT is the first documentary to look into the world of editorial obituaries, via the legendary obit desk at The Times. The film invites some of the most essential questions we ask ourselves about life, memory and the inevitable passage of time. What do we choose to remember? What never dies?
SAC is co-sponsoring this event with the Wallace House/Knight-Wallace Fellows
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The Center for Japanese Studies and the Michigan Theater Present
Kuro: The The Dark Edge of Japanese Filmmaking (Film Series)
Monday, January 16, 2017 - Monday, March 20, 2017
Michigan Theater
All films begin at 7:00 p.m.
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The 10-week series brings the genre of Noir and its underworld of crime and suspense through the lens of some of Japan’s most prolific filmmakers who have delivered what we know consider classics to the silver screen.
The series begins on January 16, 2017, with a screening of the Akira Kurosawa classic suspense thriller High and Low, a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Film and Winner of Best Film at the Mainichi Film Concours in Japan when it was released in 1964.
Select films will be introduced by professors from CJS and Screen Arts & Cultures, giving viewers insight into the captivating world of Japanese intrigue, yakuza, revenge and redemption.
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Additional support will be provided by Nagomi Sushi Downtown who will host monthly menu samplings on-site and advertise additional offers in the weeks ahead to help support the series.
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Free Screening of What Maisie Knew
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
7:30 p.m.
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On the second page of What Maisie Knew, Henry James's 1897 novel about the divorce of two wretchedly selfish people and the effect it has on their young daughter Maisie, an acquaintance expresses sympathy for the girl. "The words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie's childhood," James writes, and the novel's
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events go downhill from there. James didn't pull his punches, and (except for occasionally) neither does the modern-day film of this tale. (Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com)
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UM Alumnus & Producer David Siegal and Director Scott McGehee; this event is co-sponsored by SAC and the Departmnent of Theater & Drama
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The Center for Japanese Studies Presents
A Free Screening of Happy Hour with an introduction and Q & A with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, moderated by Markus Nornes and Kazuhiro Soda
Friday, January 20, 2017
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
5:00 p.m.
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Please join the Center for Japanese Studies in celebrating the visit of one of Japan's most important Japanese directors -- along with the screening of one of the most important Japanese films of 2015.
Four thirty-something female friends in the misty seaside city of Kobe navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives. They speak solace in one another’s company, but a sudden revelation creates a rift and rouses each woman to take stock. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wise, precisely observed, compulsively watchable drama of friendship and midlife awakening runs over five hours, yet the leisurely duration is not an indulgence but a careful strategy—to show what other films leave out, to create a space for everyday moments that is nonetheless charged with possibility, and to yield an emotional density rarely available to a feature-length movie. Developed through workshops with a cast of mostly newcomers (the extraordinary lead quartet shared the Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival), and filled with absorbing sequences that flow almost in real time, Happy Hour has a novelistic depth and texture. But it’s also the kind of immersive, intensely moving experience that remains unique to cinema (film notes extracted from www.newdirectors.org).
Please note that two intermissions will be given during this film; light refreshments will also be served.
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TUNE IN TO WOLV TV'S NEW SEASON
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After the holiday recess, WOLV is gearing up for some great new seasons of shows! Each week, WOLV shows post new episodes on YouTube, Vimeo, and our website. You may visit any of those pages to keep up with your favorite shows and to explore new ones.
To learn more about getting involved with WOLV, come talk to us at the WOLV TV winter mass meeting on Tuesday, January 17, 2017, in the studio in the basement of the North Quad academic complex. Stop by at 7:00 p.m. to receive more information about what we do and how you can play a role.
We are looking forward to meeting you -- and to sharing a great season of new episodes!
Writer Credit, Morgan Cullen
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: SALLY VOLKMANN (SAC '13)
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SAC alumna Sally Volkmann worked as the additional and assistant editing and post-production coordinator for ICARUS (dir. Bryan Fogel), a film that exposes a complex doping operation at the heart of Russia's Olympics program.
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Exemplifying the special bond between filmmaker and subject ICARUS is a vital portrait of the sacrifice some people will make to stand up for truth. The film was selected for this year's Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah; January 19-29) competition in the US documentary category.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
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photo credit, Patrice Peck
SAC '11 Alum Tian Jun Gu (House of Cards writer) poses with Assistant to the Chair Mary Lou Chlipala after stopping by on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, for a short visit and a tour of the production studios.
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