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SAT/27/MAR 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Independent Film Maker Series presents
The Fourth Annual Motion Picture and Video Symposium: A Horror Film Marathon. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History - Kerr Auditorium - Lunch Provided
The Independent Film Project at OU holds the 4 th Annual Motion Picture and Video Symposium on Saturday, 27 March, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Kerr Auditorium. This year's symposium focuses on horror films and has experienced motion picture directors Fritz Kiersch and Gary D. Rhodes. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with coffee and donuts. The morning session is with Rhodes, the screening of his Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula , with discussion of the 1930's horror film, the drive-in horror films of the 50's-60's, Bela Lugosi, and horror film mockumentaries of the modern day ( Blair Witch, etc.) Lunch will be served at the Museum's Redbud Café. The afternoon session is with Kiersch, and the screening and discussion of Children of the Corn. The event is free and open to the public.
Fritz Kiersch is an experienced theatrical motion picture director having worked in almost all film craft categories over the past 28 years with an emphasis on producing, directing and writing.
Children of the Corn (1984) was his first feature directing assignment. This modestly budgeted New World Pictures production, from a short story by Horrormeister Stephen King, was a large commercial success that solidified a multiple picture contract. Since then Kiersch has directed seven more theatrical features for various studios and cable networks including, Tuff Turf , a youth oriented action story starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr., Shattered Image, a psychological thriller, starring Bo Derek and Jack Scalia and a version of the classic, Gulliver's Travels for Hallmark Entertainment.
Kiersch became the inaugural director of the Film and Video Studies Program at the Oklahoma City Community College in 2000. He has co-chaired and developed the Oklahoma Cinema Studies Consortium, an educational institutional alliance, which will begin overseeing cross registration between three Oklahoma based college film studies programs in the fall 2003. This Consortium, comprised of The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma City Community College, will effectively establish the largest film studies program in the mid-west by providing the greatest depth of coursework, disciplines of specific study and largest faculty.
Kiersch is the winner of the Special Jury Prize , Film Fantastique Category, International Science Fiction Film Festival of Brussels (1984) and the Bronze Medal , Television Commercial Category International Film and Television Festival of New York (1981).
Gary D. Rhodes, assistant professor of Film/Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula, Fiddlin' Man: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, and Solo Flight . Banned in Oklahoma , his most recent film, will soon be released by the Criterion Collection in conjunction with the 1979 film The Tin Drum.
Rhodes' books include Lugosi (McFarland, 1997), White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2000), and Horror at the Drive -In (McFarland, 2002). He has written regularly for a variety of horror film magazines since the mid-1980s, and is a 2004 recipient of a Rondo Award for the best horror film article of 2003.
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, from his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features music by four-time Grammy nominee Art Greenshaw, and cinematography by James F. Cain, whose experimental films have won awards at film festivals around the world. Lugosi has played theaters and film festivals around the world. For more information on this and other events, call the Independent Film Project at (405) 325-4670, e-mail IndieFilmProject@ou.edu , or visit our web site at http://art.ou.edu/ind_film/. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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