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BETAFrustratingly, most of the film events at each of the colleges do not make it onto the five college calendar! Worse still, most of the films are not even on the individual colleges website -- either only on the departmental website or not online at all. It's a shame because there are so many wonderful film events playing to too many empty seats, while there are so many people in the Valley who would attend if they only knew about it.
As a workaround, I have copied events from the other colleges further down on this page.
For the 5 college calendar, click on the links below for Year, Month, Week or Day.
UMass Amherst Calendar:
- Italian Cinema: Gomorra
- Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, Gomorra follows five separate stories through the slums and streets in the provinces near Naples.
- Mon Apr 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
- Flavin Auditorium - Isenberg 137
- Film: New Year Baby
- New Year Baby is a documentary about a Cambodian woman's life during and after the Cambodian genocide.
- Tue Apr 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
- Student Union Cape Cod Lounge
- Spanish Cinema: Todos estamos invitados
- Spanish Cinema presents Todos estamos invitados, directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón in 2008.
- Mon Apr 13, 2009, 7:30 pm
- Flavin Auditorium - Isenberg 137
- Bastards of Utopia: Experiments in Politics, Fieldwork and Documentary
- Anthropologist and filmmaker Maple Razsa will present his work-in-progress Bastards of Utopia.
- Tue Apr 14, 2009, 7:30 pm
- Graham Auditorium
- 4th Annual UMass Film Festival
- This film festival is designed to celebrate film production and, most importantly, student filmmakers.
- Thu Apr 23, 2009, 7:00 pm
- Student Union Cape Cod Lounge
- Three Songs About Motherland and A Taste of Freedom
- Two films by director Marina Goldovskaya will be shown: Three Songs About Motherland and A Taste of Freedom.
- Wed May 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
- Stirn Auditorium
- Hip Hop Culture Weekend
- Hip Hop Culture Weekend features a breakdancing workshop, a free movie night, a hip hop showcase, and a record sale.
- Thu Apr 23 to Sun Apr 26, 2009
Something else:
UMass Independent Film Production Club:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30967142179
Mount Holyoke College Film Events
Hampshire College, Amherst College, and Amherst Cinema
present a screening of the movie Sleep Dealer (2008), written
and directed by Alex Rivera
91F. A
discussion with Alex about the film and immigrant rights will
follow the screening.
Wednesday, April 29
7 p.m. Screening
Amherst Cinema
28 Amity Street
Sleep Dealer won the screenwriting award at the 2008 Sundance Film
Festival as well as the festival’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize for the
best film dealing with science or technology. The film envisions a
future in which would-be immigrants remain south of the border and
use network-connected robots to beam in their services. Rated PG-13;
90 minutes.
Visit http://www.sleepdealer.com for more information
about the film.
Hampshire College: only one film event listed:
5- College Film Festival-- TBD 2010
