Sure you could surrender your study breaks to Hulu, but AU also has streaming access to many short films that are arresting, important, and worth seeing. Here are three you might enjoy: A Trip to the Moon (13 minutes): This drama, by director Georges Melies, features Victor Andre, Bleuette Bernon, and Brunnet in a beautifully restored black […]
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Eco-Comedy Video Competition winner is Alexander Lucas!!
The winner of this year’s Eco-Comedy Video Competition is Alexander Lucas with his short video Clean Coal by the Bituminous Marketing Agency.
Continue readingFilm Screening: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Wednesday, March 28th at 6pm in Wechsler Theater
The Tsunami and the Cherry BlossomWednesday, March 28 from 6 – 7pm in Wechsler TheaterThe survivors of the areas hit hardest by the 2011 Japanese tsunami find the courage to rebuild as cherry blossom season begins in this moving film. Critics called The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, “A stunning visual poem about the ephemeral […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Fruit of Our Labor now available in Media Services
As the international community reflects on the impact of years of war in Afghanistan, Community Supported Film provides an opportunity to also reflect on the situation from an Afghan perspective through 10 Afghan-made documentaries. Story 1: L is for Light, D is for Darkness, Hasibullah AsmatyStory 2: Searching for a Path, Reza SahelStory 3: Hands […]
Continue readingFilm Screening of Lia Tuesday, December 6, 7:00 p.m., Wechsler Theater (MGC 315)
Film Screening of LiaTuesday, December 6, 7:00 p.m., Wechsler Theater (MGC 315) DC Premiere of LIA, documentary film by Israeli director Taly Goldenberg, about the life of Lia Van Leer, legendary founder of the Israel Film Archive and cinematheques in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Born in 1924 in what is now Moldovia, her parents […]
Continue readingFilm Screening: Professor Julia Reichert’s film – Growing Up Female – Screening at AFI Silver Spring Thursday, Sept 15 at 730 PM
AFI-Discovery Silverdocs presents:Growing Up FemaleA film by Jim Klein and Julia ReichertAFI Silver Theater and Cultural CenterSilver Spring, MDAmerican University School of Communications adjunct professor, Julia Reichert invites everyone to a special screening of her first film (made with Jim Klein), Growing Up Female.The film has been restored and is screening this Thursday, September 15, […]
Continue readingAU Film Accepted into the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival: “La Pesca Vivencial”
An announcement from Professor Larry Engel: We’re pleased to announce that one of the films produced by students in the interdisciplinary class, “The Practice of Environmentalism: Science, Policy, and Communication” and its summer site visit to the Galapagos was accepted into the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. “La Pesca Vivencial” . The production was filmed […]
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