66-204 Film Festival

3–9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Students will take on the project of planning and managing a film festival that draws a college and citywide audience. Students will collaborate on all aspects of the festival selecting films, generating and distributing marketing materials, designing and scheduling events, arranging facilities and general logistics, coordinating internal and external public relations, organizing fundraisers, rallying the local communities in short, all the aspects involved in making the event a spectacularsensational success A unique feature of this coursecumfestival will be several directors participation as guest speakers on the festival theme and other issues informing their films. Previous Film Festivals have covered such topics as Democracy, Mechanization, Realism, Globalization, Migration, Media and Work. This course is also designed to supplement the study of film with the historical, political and sociological background that students need for critically analyzing the images and ideologies they see on the screen and understand how those images effect our views of the past and present time. NOTE Interview with course instructor required prior the registration.

Prerequisites: none listed

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