SFSU 50th Film Finals Event Press Release

PRESS RELEASE

San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 18, 2010

Contact: Kirthi Nath, kirthifilm@gmail.com

50th FILM FINALS EVENT

Golden Anniversary: Blueprints for a Generation

The Department of Cinema at San Francisco State University presents the 50^th Film Finals Event on Friday May 14, 2010. The next wave of film begins at San Francisco State. Scores of innovative independent filmmakers and future Academy Award winners work nonstop to get their films accepted to this annual juried screening. Be the first to see these emerging filmmakers at the Bay Area’s premier college cinema event. Demonstrating the diverse creative approaches to film production that proliferates at SFSU, the evening will feature an animation program, a juried film program as well as a retrospective section of films from the past 50 years. Cinema students will receive awards at a special ceremony and guest speakers include Academy Award winner Walter Murch (The only person to even win Oscars for both sound mixing and film editing; work includes Apocalypse Now, The English Patient and Touch of Evil) and Academy Award winner and former alumni Jonas Rivera (SFSU ’96, 2010 Academy Award nomination for Up). The program is produced by students in the Cinematheque Management, taught by Kirthi Nath, as well as the Animation Collective.

What: SFSU 50th Film Finals Event
When: Friday May 14, 2010
Program:

Animation Program 5:30 pm

Reception: 6:30 pm

Awards Ceremony, Archival Screening, Guest Speakers Walter Murch and Jonas Rivera 7:30 pm

Juried Film Finals: 8:30 pm

Where: McKenna Theater, 1600 Holloway Ave Creative Arts Building, San Francisco, CA, 94132

Admission: $5.00 Students, Faculty, Staff and Seniors/ $10 General Adult. Avoid lines, but tix here

Info: kirthifilm@gmail.com

Film Finals Trailer: 50th Film Finals Trailer

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SFSU FILM FINALS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (BE SURE TO PRINT FORM BEFORE HITTING SUBMIT!)

To submit your film to the 50th Film Finals, please go to this link and follow the instructions and complete the form
CLICK HERE TO GO TO SUBMISSION FORM

* SAVE THE DATE * SFSU 50th Film Finals- MAY 14, 2010

The next wave of film begins at SF State. Join us for the celebration of the 50th Film Finals. Scores of innovative independent filmmakers and future Academy Award winners work nonstop to get their films accepted to this annual juried screening. Be the first to see these emerging filmmakers at the Bay Area’s premier college cinema event.

While digital film has sparked a technology revolution, students also shoot and edit on celluloid, providing images and sounds impossible to duplicate. Shorts in animation, experimental, documentary, drama and film noir genres dominate the Film Finals, with many moving on to festivals worldwide.

Guest speakers

• Pixar’s Jonas Rivera, (B.A., Cinema, ’96), 2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, Up
• Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning editor and sound designer, Apocalypse Now and The English Patient

Schedule

Note: Film Programs and Awards Ceremony will be held in McKenna Theate. Reception will be held in Creative Arts Room 153.

• Animation Finals: 5:30pm
• Reception: 6:30pm
• Special guest speaker Jonas Rivera and Walter Murch + awards ceremony: 7:30pm
• Live-action Film Finals: 8:30pm

Tickets
Avoid the lines....buy your tickets now!

$5 students, staff, faculity*
$10 general public

*(Cinema Faculity gets comps, email cinemaclass506@gmail for more info)