Event Date and Time:
February 28, 2008 – March 1, 2008
Events will take place between 12 noon to 10pm
Location:
Tisch School of the Arts and the Cantor Film Center
721 Broadway
36 East 8th Street
The fifth annual Fusion Film Festival, February 28-March 1 will comprise of many exciting events besides the student documentary, film and screenplay competition, including: The centerpiece screening, Kimberly Peirce's (Boys Don't Cry) powerful new anti-war film, “Stop Loss” starring Ryan Phillippe. We are proud to announce a Denise Di Novi Master Class on producing as well as a retrospective of the filmmaker and actress Adrienne Shelly. Shelly’s husband Andy Ostroy will host this event accompanied by special guest, actor Paul Rudd. Please see our website for details and for information on our many other scheduled events: www.fusionfilmfestival.com.
The Fusion Film Festival was founded five years ago at New York University with the mission of encouraging, promoting, and inspiring women filmmakers in the NYU Community. Fusion also greatly encourages collaboration between male and female filmmakers as a way of demonstrating the advantages of gender partnership in all aspects of the discipline. Each year, it mounts a multi-day film festival at which all the screenings, industry panels, master classes, retrospectives, and student showcases actively support the talents and creative visions of female filmmakers from the student level to the highest echelons of the film industry. The Festival is a completely student-run event, and it is the only annual film festival at New York University dedicated to the work of women.
Fusion launched its fifth anniversary year on October 26, 2007 at the Cantor Film Center with a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern documentary, The Devil Came on Horseback, a film candidly exposing the tragedy taking place in Darfur, Sudan. The panelists included filmmaker Annie Sundberg; producer Jane Wells; Ruth Messinger, director of American Jewish World Service and former Manhattan Borough president; and Dirk Salomons, director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University and adjunct professor at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The panel was moderated by Sam Pollard, feature film and television video editor, documentary producer/director, and professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.
