Screen/Society--DEMAN Weekend Lead-In/AMI Showcase--Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming series--"Revolve on Camera: The Performances" w/ filmmakers Benjamin Epps '00 & Heather Bowles Epps '00

Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Screen/Society--DEMAN Weekend Lead-In/AMI Showcase--Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming series--"Revolve on Camera: The Performances" w/ filmmakers Benjamin Epps '00 & Heather Bowles Epps '00

Film Screening:

Revolve on Camera: The Performances
Directed by Benjamin Epps '00
Produced by Heather Bowles Epps '00 & Benjamin Epps '00

-- Q&A to follow w/ filmmakers Benjamin Epps '00 & Heather Bowles Epps '00!

NB: Because of the Duke-UNC Football Game, Duke University Rd will be closed and traffic around West Campus and Central Campus will be very slow moving Thursday evening. 
East Campus parking for our screening should not be affected, but you might want to plan your route to avoid the worst of the traffic in affected areas, and allow extra driving time if you are coming from off campus or traveling between campuses!

About the Program:

Revolve on Camera: The Performances is a video compilation of selected works from Revolve Dance Company, shot for camera on location in Houston and Southern California. Using previously staged works, as well as newly choreographed pieces for film, Revolve on Camera (ROC) takes the audience on a cinematic journey through the emotional, stimulating, and thought provoking artistry of this amazing dance company. The film features the short, Angsters, which has played at festivals around the world and won the Audience Choice Award at Dance Camera West film festival in Los Angeles. These short films will also be part of a feature documentary about the Revolve dancers, currently in production.

 

Short films to be screened:

About the Filmmakers:

Over seventeen years ago, husband and wife filmmaking team, Benjamin and Heather, then Duke freshmen, met while collaborating on the student TV show VCR for Duke’s Cable 13 TV Station. VCR was a movie review program in which he and other Dukies re-enacted clips from Hollywood movies in a comic way. After years of working in film and television, Ben and Heather decided to launch into the world of production as their own bosses, creating stories and projects they were passionate about. Their company Gothic South is a production company located in Santa Monica, CA. Revolve on Camera is their first feature documentary under Gothic South, but certainly not the first collaboration between this director and producer.

Heather Bowles Epps '00 (Producer) grew up in the dance world, a dancer herself, but also traveling all over the country with her parents, who produced a dance competition for kids. Dance shaped who she is at a very young age. During college, she discovered another artistic passion, film and pursued production in LA after college. Over the years she has been lucky enough to combine these two art forms in various ways, from producing short films involving dance to producing live dance events and video programs across the country.

Benjamin Epps '00 (Director) hails from Tennessee and earned an M.F.A. in directing from the American Film Institute (AFI) as well as a B.A. from Duke University. He began his Los Angeles career working for filmmakers Randall Wallace and Mel Gibson in a variety of roles ranging from personal assistant to editor to animator to documentarian. At AFI he directed highly stylized, genre-bending movies. Following his tenure at AFI, Epps became a founding member of Footprint Features, where he produced and directed his first feature film, Family Weekend, starring Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, and Olesya Rulin. In addition to Revolve on Camera, he continues to work on projects through Gothic South Productions, concentrating on hi-concept genre movies.

 

Related Event - Fri Nov 11, 2:30PM-4:00PM:

DEMAN WEEKEND - AMI Master Class w/ filmmaker Benjamin Epps '00 (for students only)
[Smith Warehouse 228, Bay 12] (see: http://tinyurl.com/BenjaminEpps-DukeMasterClass)

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Duke Entertainment, Media and the Arts Network (DEMAN), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Duke Alumni Association (DAA), the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Dance Program, and the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS).

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)