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Chasing Coral Screening with Filmmaker Discussion

This EcoFocus Film Festival event is part of a larger project to bring CHASING CORAL to Athens. During the filmmakers' visit, local area schools will participate in field trips to see the film and meet the filmmakers and will take part in educational activities to engage them with ecology, marine science and ocean health. Financial support for this project comes from Reefball Foundation, ECOGIG Research Consortium at UGA's…


Films in Key West: “Matinee”

In conjunction with the exhibition “Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan.” Join the Georgia Museum of Art for films discussed by scholars, filmmakers and students. Each film will include a 15-minute introduction by a guest speaker and short conversations about the film following the screening. In "Matinee," a small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Directed by Joe Dante and starring…


Conversations in Film: “Reap the Wild Wind”

In conjunction with the exhibition “Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan.” Join the Georgia Museum of Art for films discussed by scholars, filmmakers and students. Each film will include a 15-minute introduction by a guest speaker and short conversations about the film following the screening. A Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by…


Film Screening: "Maggie Growls"

MAGGIE GROWLS is a documentary film portrait by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater of the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved. Her outrage and determination fueled a political chain reaction that forever changed the lives of older Americans, repealing mandatory retirement laws and proving that "old" is not a dirty word…


Film Screening: "No Job for a Woman"

When World War II broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to the frontlines that she left husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be reunited. Ruth Cowan’s reporting was hampered by a bureau chief who refused to talk to her. Meanwhile, photojournalist Dickey Chappelle wanted to get so close to the action that she could feel bullets whizzing by. This award-winning documentary, NO JOB FOR A WOMAN: THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT TO…


Film Screening: "Made in L.A."

Screening of "Made in L.A.," a documentary film that follows the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their long battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.


Film Screening: CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

Franklin College is proud to host a screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap.  This program is supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the generous gifts of the University of Georgia Partners and other donors. This documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and…


Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America (film and lecture)

Laurence Cotton, historian, writer, and fimmaker, will deliver and introduction for the film, Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. Olmsted was the designer of Central Park, among other iconic landscapes throughout the country. Contact: Ian Armit 706-542-8113  


Film Screening: Demain (Tomorrow)

Ciné will host a special one-night only presentation of Demain (Tomorrow), winner of France’s 2016 César Award for Best Documentary. The screening will be preceded by a public reception and followed by a panel discussion. The event is sponsored by the Consulat Général de France à Atlanta, the UGA French Program, UGA Film Studies, and the Willson Center as part of the 2017 Global Georgia Initiative. A reception catered by The…


Brooklyn Bridge Film Series: “Brooklyn Bridge”

In this documentary, Ken Burns captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age, the dramatic story of the larger-than-life men who imagined and built it and the immense charm this granite and steel structure has exerted on generations of city dwellers. 1981, 58 min.


Brooklyn Bridge Film Series: “’Neath Brooklyn Bridge”

The 11th film in the East Side Kids series (most famous for “Angels with Dirty Faces”) focuses on a gang of tough young kids who try to solve a murder. 1942, 61 min. Sponsored by: Georgia Museum of Art Contact: Hillary Brown 706-542-4662


Mountains that Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation


Film: “Le Mystère Picasso”

Part of the Behind-the-Scenes Film Series. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot peers into the imagination of Pablo Picasso in this quiet documentary that captures the revolutionary painter's creative process through a combination of stop-motion and time-lapse photography. Picasso's work comes to life on screen, paint strokes and splashes of color appear as if by magic and empty canvases become platforms for a series of daring and original drawings…


“Faust Song of the Sun” by Werner Fritsch

Visiting German author Werner Fritsch will introduce the screening of his cinematic poem "Faust Song of the Sun" (2012).  The film will be followed by a reception at 7 p.m. Fritsch is the author of numerous award-winning theatre and radio plays, a highly acclaimed novel and the writer and director of three experimental films. His cutting-edge work, moving between different media, has received widespread acclaim in Germany and he has been…


Screening for Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History

There will be a documentary screening of the film "Raising Resistance," a movie about the effects of GM crops on agribusiness and local farmers in Paraguay. This screening is part of the Georgia workshop on culture, power and history, an initiative featuring films and speakers on the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture. After the movie, there will be a question-and-answer session with the director. Contact: Ashley Meadow 706-296-…


Screening: Raise the Roof

Raise the Roof is a 2014 documentary film that follows artists Rick and Laura Brown to Sanok, Poland, as they begin rebuilding Gwoździec, a magnificent wooden eighteenth century synagogue in Poland that was later destroyed by the Nazis. Their vision inspires hundreds of people to join them, using their hands, old tools and techniques to bring Gwoździec’s history, culture, science, and art back to life. Free for UGA students with ID; $5 for…


Samurai Film Series: "Seven Samurai"

Sponsored by: Georgia Museum of Art Contact: Hillary Brown 706-542-4662 "Seven Samurai" tells the story of a 16th-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich…


German Film: "Phoenix"

Sponsored by: Germanic and Slavic Studies, Department of Contact: Kris Petti  The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies brings the award-winning German film, "Phoenix" to Athens. Film summary: Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different…

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East-West Fiction as World Literature

The department of English and the Franklin College welcome professor and dean of humanities at Duke University Srinivas Aravamudan to campus on Sept. 13: [Dr. Aravamudan] will give the first lecture of the 2013-14 Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century British Literature at the University of Georgia. His talk on "East-West Fiction as World Literature: Reconfiguring Hayy ibn Yaqzan" will be Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall…

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History of the American Novel

Henry James, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Agee, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac. To many people, myself included, this list of Americans merits consideration as the founders of our country…
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