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LOW BUDGET FILMMAKING WITH ANDREW BUJALSKI

2/26/2010

Join independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski on a private tour through the various stages of low budget, high class filmmaking. He will discuss how he was able to get his critically acclaimed and groundbreaking films made and successfully distributed, from script to screen (and beyond) and his perceptions of the current landscape of independent filmmaking.

Participants will have a rare chance to meet with Andrew and discuss how to make films that manage both to be artistically challenging and find an audience. Note that all three of his films will be playing, with Q&A by the director, as part of Eckerd College's International Cinema series, March 12-13.

There is a small charge for the event ($25 for Eckerd students and faculty; $50 for non-Eckerd folks - due at the door). This intimate event is limited to 30 participants, so please RSVP via email at nate.andersen@gmail.com. The exact room location will be announced soon via email for those who RSVP. Eckerd College is located at 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Andrew Bujalski studied film at Harvard's department of Visual and Environmental Studies, where Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman was his thesis advisor. He released his first two feature films, “Funny Ha Ha” in 2005 and “Mutual Appreciation” in 2006, to great critical acclaim. His latest, “Beeswax,” is currently in limited theatrical release. He is often associated with the do-it-yourself, slacker film genre known as "mumblecore," but his films are widely considered to be the best of the bunch. He has been compared with Eric Rohmer and John Cassavettes, but he has a style and set of preoccupations in his film that are distinctly his own.

Scott Foundas of the LA Weekly wrote, "Bujalski is making what may prove to be the defining movies about a generation...marked by its very lack of definition."

For more information or to RSVP contact Nathan Andersen at nate.andersen@gmail.com.

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