Monday, September 8, 2003
For more information: contact Jeff Hendricks, 820-1414
Schedule:
3-5 pm Jackson Hall 304 Become the Sky plus questions and answers
7-9 pm Jackson Hall 304 Green plus questions and answers
Free admission; ALL ARE INVITED!
Laura Dunn, Founder and Executive Director of Two Birds Film
in Austin, Texas.
MFA Film, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION (1999, 31 minutes, video) documents a labor strike at Yale, won best documentary at the 1999 National Student Film Festival and toured to 40 universities with the nationwide Michael-Moore sponsored McCollege Tour.
BABY (1999, 5 minutes, 16mm), which connects sex to population control, was a college winner in the World Population Film and Video Festival 1999. It was featured at Exit Art's annual exhibition of new artists, NYC, summer 2000 and Aldrich Museum of Art.
GREEN (2000, 47 minutes, 16mm) documents pollution along the Mississippi River Petrochemical Corridor. It won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Student Documentary, Hollywood, CA; Global Vision Grand Prize for World Population Film Festival; Best Documentary at the Making Waves National Student Film Festival, NYC; Gecko Award at Cinematexas, Austin; Honorable Mention at Flicker Film Festival, Chicago, IL; and played at SXSW, Doubletake Documentary, and Great Plains Film Festivals.
BECOME THE SKY (2002, 53 minutes) maps energy and politics 4,000 miles across Texas and was nominated for the 2002 Student Academy Award.
Dunn was recently awarded a Rockefeller Media Fellowship for Mai Mayim, a documentary that looks at the Middle East conflict from within the context of the ecological need for water in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
"Don't Drink the Water" (article on Dunn and Green)
"The Subtext of a Young Filmmaker's Education" (on Dunn and Green)
"Meditation on the State of Planet Earth" (profile of Dunn and the tech tools she uses)
"An Accidental Filmmaker" (interview with Dunn @ New England Film)
"The Image
Maker" (article on Dunn)