Visions4 Official Conference Selections Announced!

Visions Film Festival and Conference is excited to announce our Conference Schedule and official scholar selections!

The long nights of programming are now behind us. With every scholarly work being examined, analyzed, and approached from various perspectives, the process was one of difficulty, yet excitement. Arguments were made for our favorite pieces, although the staff ballot always decided the fate. We had to say goodbye to many top-notch papers, and it may sound a bit cliche, but with the high quality of scholarship in submissions overall, Visions4 would have preferred to select each and every author and scholarly paper for presentation. On behalf of the entire staff, I want to thank every student who submitted their work. Even if your paper was not selected for programming, you still played an enormous role in shaping Visions4 into what it is today.

Featured in this year’s Conference blocks are representatives from around the country, including undergraduate work from UNC Wilmington, The University of Florida, The University of Michigan, CUNY--Brooklyn College, and The University of Oklahoma. Presentations will range from themes of feminism (which correlate with our Keynote and feminist film scholar, Kiva Reardon), avant-garde filmmaking, early and contemporary French cinema, adaptation, hollywood classics, and innovating looks into new methods of spectatorship.

Below, in order of scheduled appearance, are the Visions4 official Conference selections in their residing blocks, set to present their scholarly work on April 4th, 2014:

Conference Block 1 (10:30 - 12:00pm) -- Lumina Theater, UNCW

1. “Boys Will Be Girls: How Alice Guy Challenged a Male Dominated Industry through Prophetic Feminism” by Dallis Frie Covey--UNCW

2. “Murders Unavenged: A Brief Look Into the Realism of the Police Procedural” by Christopher LeMaire--University of Florida

3. “The Active Viewer: Use of Multi-Screen Projection in Chelsea Girls and Kitch’s Last Meal” by Caleb Ward--UNCW

4. “Going Around the World in The Lady from Shanghai: Transmedia Adaptation in the Work of Orson Welles” by Vincent Longo--University of Michigan

Conference Block 2 (5:15 - 6:45pm) -- Lumina Theater, UNCW

5. “Irréversible & Techniques of Looking” by Conor Boyle--CUNY-Brooklyn College

6. “Cinema Du Corps and Avant Garde Cinematography: The Brutal, Contemporary French Revitalization of Experimental Filmmaking” by Tyler Davis--UNCW

7. “The “Unfilmable” Lightness of Being? : Adaptation, the Essay Film and the Puzzling Object that is Philip Kaufman’s Adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Brandon Konecny--UNCW

8. “Pied Piper vs. Faun: Storybooks and Female Empowerment in The Sweet Hereafter and Pan’s Labyrinth” by Amanda Stonebarger--University of Oklahoma

We are thrilled to have such a high level of Conference selections.  Congratulations to all selected scholars, and we are all looking forward to the amazing presentations you have prepared for the event on April 4th!

Steven Gamble

Marketing Director

Visions Film Festival and Conference

To attend the 2014 Visions Film Festival & Conference, please visit our website at www.visionsfilm.org to purchase your personal event badge, granting access to all film and conference blocks, as well as the after party. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visionsfilm