Date:
July 06, 2009
Time: 7 P.M.
Location: SCA 108, George Lucas Building, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Time: 7 P.M.
Location: SCA 108, George Lucas Building, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
The SCA Alumni Screening Series Presents: WELCOME TO ACADEMIA
The School of Cinematic Arts and MAP Productions
invite you and a guest to a special preview screening of
WELCOME TO ACADEMIA
WELCOME TO ACADEMIA
Directed by Kirk Davis
Followed by a Q&A with writer Elzbieta Szoka and producer Sam Adelman
7 P.M. on Monday, July 6, 2009
SCA 108, George Lucas Building
School of Cinematic Arts
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles
FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL.
SCA 108, George Lucas Building
School of Cinematic Arts
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles
FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL.
Sex and power games go hand in hand in Welcome To Academia, a dark satire that uses the university as a metaphor for personal and professional relationships.
An idealistic graduate student of modern history, on her journey to obtain a well deserved diploma, learns the hard way that merit and intellect are not the most important values in the corrupt and indifferent environment that she has faith in. The subject of her doctoral thesis, "Aftermath: Yalta, the 20th Century and Beyond," symbolizes the power structures of her own reality - her doctoral committee, known as the Hydra, represents the three World War II superpowers: the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
To make matters worse, her charming but oblivious thesis advisor abandons her amid the swirl of departmental politics. Who'll be the new Dean? Will the new president ruin the curriculum and get rid of tenure? And what will happen to our young, innocent student of modern history, who has to pay a high price in order to get her well-deserved diploma? Will the 'rite of passage' that she has to go through make her end up like her oppressed oppressors?
An idealistic graduate student of modern history, on her journey to obtain a well deserved diploma, learns the hard way that merit and intellect are not the most important values in the corrupt and indifferent environment that she has faith in. The subject of her doctoral thesis, "Aftermath: Yalta, the 20th Century and Beyond," symbolizes the power structures of her own reality - her doctoral committee, known as the Hydra, represents the three World War II superpowers: the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
To make matters worse, her charming but oblivious thesis advisor abandons her amid the swirl of departmental politics. Who'll be the new Dean? Will the new president ruin the curriculum and get rid of tenure? And what will happen to our young, innocent student of modern history, who has to pay a high price in order to get her well-deserved diploma? Will the 'rite of passage' that she has to go through make her end up like her oppressed oppressors?
Provided courtesy of MAP Productions.
Unrated. Running Time: 85 minutes.
To learn more about the film and to view the trailer, click here.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Elzbieta Szoka (Executive Producer/Screenwriter)
Elzbieta Szoka was born and raised in Lodz, Poland. She received her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Warsaw in Poland, and a Ph.D. in Brazilian Literature and Culture from the University of Texas in Austin. After a 20-year stint in academia as a literary and theater scholar, she became involved in filmmaking as executive producer and script advisor on the movie Screen Door Jesus. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film Welcome to Academia with Kirk Davis a few years later and is currently developing new projects with Sam Adelman for Paradox Smoke Productions. She is also a translator and editor for Host Publications, an international literary press, which she co-founded with her husband, Joe W. Bratcher III, in 1988. Elzbieta lives in NYC with her husband and their two sons, Adam and Ian. Sam Adelman (Producer)
For over 20 years, Sam has worked as a filmmaker in the editing rooms of over 50 feature films, with such luminary directors as Sidney Lumet, Andrew Bergman, Ulu Grosbard, Robert Redford, Frank Gilroy and Nora Ephron. He is the founder of ST, a script development workshop that ran for five years in various New York locations, hosting over 100 readings with moderated critiques afterward. Since 2002, he has been a producer of two feature films, Screen Door Jesus and Welcome to Academia, as well as the Academy Award-nominated short documentary, Salim Baba. Sam is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film and Theater Arts program. He currently works and lives in NYC with his wife, Jessica, and their daughter, Charlotte.ABOUT THE SCA ALUMNI SCREENING SERIES
This June through August, 2009, the SCA Alumni Screening Series will host a wide array of film screenings and filmmaker Q&As, highlighting new blockbuster and independent American films, international and documentary features and recent work by our SCA Alumni. These screenings will be hosted in various SCA venues, including Norris Cinema Theatre, as well as SCA 108 and SCA 110. All screenings are free to the public but will require an electronic reservation, which can be made through the website for each individual screening. Many screenings will be overbooked to ensure that capacity is met in the theater. Some screenings will be run from digital sources.
To view the calendar for the Alumni Screening Series, click here.
ABOUT CHECK-IN & RESERVATIONS
This screening is free of charge and open to the public. The theater will be OVERBOOKED to ensure capacity and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-serve basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or print out of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your e-mail account upon successfully making an RSVP through this website. Doors will open at 6:30 P.M.
ABOUT PARKING
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is located at 900 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $8 at USC Entrance Gate #5, located at the intersection of W. Jefferson Blvd. & McClintock Avenue. We recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or Parking Structure D, at the far end of 34th Street. Please note that Parking Structure D cannot accommodate tall vehicles such as SUVs. Metered street parking is also available along W. Jefferson Boulevard.
Contact Information:
Alessandro Ago
213.740.2330
aago@cinema.usc.edu
| RSVP: | http://scacommunity.usc.edu/events/rsvp/eventRSVP.cfm?rid=347 |
| Event URL: | http://cinema.usc.edu/WelcomeToAcademia |
| Associated Person: | Alessandro Ago |
