Come celebrate the excellent work of student filmmakers from the OHIO School of Film’s 2nd-year MFA Program!
Saturday, November 8th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required
The Ohio University School of Film is proud to showcase seven original short films created by second-year graduate students. During their second year, graduate film students refine their craft and deepen their storytelling through the creation of highly personal and formally daring works. As they move toward their thesis year, their artistic identities begin to take shape and result in films that are bold, imaginative, and emotionally resonant.
Films and Filmmakers
Thirsty by Zinn Rogers – Narrative. Runtime: 15 min
Synopsis: A painter begins to have a breakdown while trying to paint her masterpiece.
Tub by Andrew Bowman – Narrative. Runtime: 12 min
Synopsis: Three incompatible fantasies are channeled through a cast-iron tub and its discordant inhabitants.
Pin by MJ Golazari – Experimental. Runtime: 5 min
Synopsis: A woman’s quiet routines begins to fray as the unseen weight of external unrest presses in, blurring the line between interior calm and a mysterious collapse.
Everything Is Fine by Gift Sukez Sukali – Narrative. Runtime: 9 min
Synopsis: When a toxic leak threatens a small Michigan neighborhood, a complacent husband clings to denial as his panicked wife demands they flee, forcing a darkly comic reckoning with apathy, trust, and survival.
Still Rolling by Mohamed Essam Abouelenain – Narrative. Runtime: 15 min
Synopsis: A sixty-year-old theatre professor lands her first on-camera role, only to find herself in a toxic location under the control of a toxic filmmaker — will she survive the performance or lose herself to it?
The Kiss by Salome Sulaberidze – Narrative. Runtime: 23 min
Synopsis: Lee, a young withdrawn girl has a secret crush on her brother’s friend Peter. Instead of showing her feelings directly, she lives in her imagination, but everything changes at the Halloween party when she finds Peter laying alone and unconscious in the forest.
Alien by Alaa Al-Shameri – Narrative. Runtime: 30 min
Synopsis: As his visa expires, a young Muslim man in America struggles between the pull of assimilation and the peace of faith, discovering that identity means more than belonging.
This event is made possible through the support of the Ohio University School of Film, the Chaddock and Morrow College of Fine Arts, and Arts for Ohio
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Kelly Hatas is the Executive Director of Hocking Athens Perry Community Action (HAPCAP), an antipoverty nonprofit organization headquartered in Athens County. She earned her BA in International Relations from Shawnee State University in 2007 and went on to serve as an AmeriCorps*VISTA for three years there. That experience led to her interest in the nonprofit sector, and she earned her Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University in 2012. She has spent the rest of her professional career with HAPCAP, one of 1,000 Community Action Agencies that were established across the country as part of then President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Kelly grew up in Southwest Ohio, and will talk about how her perspective shifted after moving to, and choosing to stay in Appalachia. She lives in Athens County with her wife and two dogs.
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