The program is sponsored by the University Equity Committee and is part of the campus initiative to provide a Framework for Diversity. Black Maria Film Festival planned The Department of Cinema is sponsoring the Black Maria Film and Video Festival at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in LH-6. The festival, a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, honors the origins of motion picture making in America with Thomas Edison and his Black Maria film studio. An annual open competition for independent media artists, the Black Maria Festival results in a highly varied and provocative collection of new works offered for exhibition through its travelling showcase tour hosts. Among the judges of the festival is Mark McElhatten, cinema alumnus and former adjunct lecturer in cinema.
Admission is free.
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