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Paul Harrill We are pleased to have Paul Harrill visit William & Mary for our long weekend of short filmmaking. Paul will be hanging out with us on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday, he'll kick off the CANS FILM FESTIVAL, show some of his films and talk about filmmaking.
All events are free and open to the public
Saturday :: Februrary 24 :: Noon :: Swem Library :: Ford Classroom
On Saturday, February 24 at NOON in Swem Library's Ford Classroom, come by for a conversation with Paul Harrill. Paul will discuss the processes of independent, self-reliant, DIY (do-it-yourself) filmmaking. Bring your lunch, your ideas and your duct tape!
Saturday :: Februrary 24 :: 4PM :: Kimball Theatre:: Colonial Williamsburg
Later that evening, at 4PM in the Kimball Theatre, Colonial Williamsburg, Paul will screen and discuss his award winning short films.
Paul Harrill is a Southern filmmaker. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Harrill received his Master of Fine Arts in Film & Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His short films include Gina, An Actress Age, 29, which follows a budding actress in Knoxville who is hired to bust a union-organizing effort. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. Later festival screenings included Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films, among others.
Brief Encounter with Tibetan Monks, a documentary, was included in Caveh Zahedi & Jay Rosenblatt's 9/11-themed anthology, Underground Zero. The anthology screened at over forty festival venues and was awarded a Special Citation by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle in 2002. On its own, Brief Encounter screened on Cinemax on the one year anniversary of September 11.
Mr. Harrill has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, and a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York and The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
He currently resides in Southwest Virginia where has taught courses in Digital Film/Video Production at Virginia Tech since August 2006.
Self-Reliant Film (http://www.selfreliantfilm.com), Paul's weblog, is devoted to the principles and practice of do-it-yourself filmmaking. The site receives over 50,000 hits monthly.