Film Screening/Discussion:

"An Evening with Lauren Wolkstein '04"

-- Q&A to follow!

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Films to be screened tonight:

Cigarette Candy

(Lauren Wolkstein, 2009, 13 min, USA, in English, Color, Digital)

Cigarette Candy tells the story of Eddie Van Buren, a traumatized teenage Marine who is forced to play the role of 'the hero' at his homecoming party. In pursuing a rebellious, precocious sixteen-year-old girl, Candy, he sees an opportunity to numb his pain and connect to a fellow lost soul.

The Strange Ones

(Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, 2011, 14 min, USA, in English, Color, Digital)
 

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be.
 

Social Butterfly

(Lauren Wolkstein, 2013, 14 min, France/USA, in English and French with English subtitles, Color, Digital)
 

A 30-year-old American woman wanders into a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.

About the filmmaker:

Lauren Wolkstein is an award-winning filmmaker who received her MFA in film directing from Columbia University’s graduate film program, and a BA in computer science and film from Duke University. 

She was named one of the top twenty-five emerging filmmakers through The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker Project’s inaugural Emerging Visions program at the 2011 New York Film Festival. In the summer of 2013, Filmmaker Magazine named her as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film," an annual selection of faces who will be shaping the independent film world in the future.

Lauren's thesis film at Columbia University, Cigarette Candy, won several awards including Best Narrative Short at South by Southwest (SXSW).

Her next short film, The Strange Ones (aka Deux Inconnus), co-directed with Christopher Radcliff, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and it has since been selected for more than 100 other film festivals, winning several awards in international film festivals including the Best Narrative Short Award at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Revelation Award at the Brest European Short Film Festival.

Her latest film, Social Butterfly, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, received the Award for the Best Narrative Short at the Oak Cliff Film Fest, and has been selected for several other festivals.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.