Student Film Festival

9 - 10:30 a.m.

Opening Ceremony - Main Auditorium, Student Activity Building

Welcome Remarks 

• NUPT President Yang Zhen
• NYIT President Edward Guiliano
• Chinese Official
• Shanghai Consul General Robert D. Griffiths
• Director Chen Ying Qi
• Director Mike Figgis

10:45 a.m. - noon 

Workshops with film scholars, directors, and other participants: Teaching Building 1

• Workshop # 1:  Hilary Radner: “Feminist Film Theory and Film Analysis,”  and  Timothy Corrigan: “Writing Film Analysis,”  Room 108
• Workshop # 2:  Featured Director Mike Figgis: “Directing,” and  Yuet-fung Ho: “Scriptwriting,”  Room 109
• Workshop # 3:  Marcia Ferguson: “Acting for the Stage and Screen,” Studio Room

Academic Paper Presentations: Room 110

• Chen Yuanyuan (University College, Cork, Ireland): ” 'Chinese School’:  Definition, Development, and Features”
• Yukuo Wang (NUPT): "Flowers of War and Schindler’s List: a Comparison”
• Adam Lam (Confucius Institute, University of Canterbury, New Zealand): “Private DV Filmmaking as Expression of Longing:  A Case Study of Hu Ge’s Battling Bandits in Mt. Birdcage” 

Noon - 1 p.m. 

Lunch, Student Activity Center - Auditorium Foyer

Noon - 4 p.m.

Pre-Screening of 30 films, with first tier of judges choosing the top five films in short narrative and the top five in computer animation, Student Activity Center - Main Auditorium

Judges: 

• Yuet-fung Ho 
• Joanna V. Arong  
• Marcia Ferguson
   

Academic Paper Presentations, Student Activity Center - Meeting Room (third floor)

• Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania): “American Cinema in the 2000s” 
• Hilary Radner (University of Otago, New Zealand): “Romantic Melodrama in Hollywood”
• Bruno Lessard (Ryerson University, Canada): “The Obscure Object of Urban Desire: the Lures of City Life in Chinese Film”

4:15 - 6 p.m.

Screening of Finalists, Main Auditorium, Student Activity Center

Judges:

• Director Mike Figgis
• Director Chen Ying Qi 
• Director Kang Er

6 p.m.  

Student  Film Festival Awards Ceremony, Main Auditorium 

• Media interviews and photo opportunities with winners and celebrities

Sunday, April 22