Purple Violet Film Festival Information
The Purple Violet Student Film Festival at Kean University is dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of emerging filmmakers.
The one-day Festival features the screening of student short films in four unique categories, High School Public Service Announcement Videos, lectures and workshops given by industry
professionals, and a Q & A with a special Guest Artist following screenings of the winners. Previous Guests Artists include Harry Shearer, Tom Fontana and Stephen Whitty. The
Festival is produced by the Kean University Department of Media & Film with the support of Premiere Stages.
Selected works will be presented at Kean University on April 16, 2009. Winners will be selected in four short film categories: Comedic, Animation, Dramatic and Documentary. The four winners will receive a formal viewing at Kean University to culminate the Festival. A reception for the filmmakers will follow the screening. The four winners will each be awarded a cash prize of $250. All winners, including an “Audience Favorite”, also receive a framed certificate.
High Schools Students are also encouraged to submit 30-second public service announcement videos. Four winners will be selected and each receives a cash prize of $100. All submissions will be screened throughout the day on April 16th; the winners will be formally screened with the winning films at 5 p.m. on April 16th.
Schedule of Events: April 16, 2009
University Center Little Theatre:
Noon to 4 p.m.
• Open Door Screening of Short Films (all entries)
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Featured Guest Artist: Emily Hubley
5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Reception for Student Filmmakers
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Screenings of winning films and awards presentation
2009 Featured Guest: EMILY HUBLEY
Emily will discuss her new film The-Toe Tactic and her career as an animator. |
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Emily Hubley's first feature film, THE TOE TACTIC, premiered at this year's SXSW Film Festival, and showed at many other festivals including New Directors/New Films in New York City and the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film will have its theatrical premiere in Jan 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and will tour the country during the first half of that year, often with associated programs of shorts (for details, visit http://www.thetoetactic.com).
Ms. Hubley has also been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her narration delivers concrete stories while visual elements question, crack wise and embellish the meaning of specific ideas. Among Hubley's shorts are Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, The Tower (a collaboration with her sister Georgia Hubley), Her Grandmother's Gift (a collaboration with her mother, animator Faith Hubley), and Octave. |
Ms. Hubley was in the first class of (2004) Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's 2002 Screenwriters' and 2003 Filmmakers' Labs. With THE TOE TACTIC, Hubley continues to layer human truths, working here with live elements to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and fun.
Ms. Hubley's work has shown at numerous festivals, including Sundance and South by Southwest, and programs of her films have been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, the Tribeca Film Festival, Ocularis/Galapagos Art Space and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. In addition to the many screenings of her feature, Ms Hubley presented her animated work at The 1st International Animated Film Festival in Poznan Poland in July of this year.
Ms. Hubley developed Another Tack with composer/musician, Sue Garner. The piece combines Hubley's animated loops and poetry with original music performed live by Ms. Garner and others. Another Tack was presented in Austin at SXSW (2007), and in NYC at IFC (2007) MoMA (2005)) and the Angel Orensanz Center (2004).
Ms. Hubley created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. With associate Jeremiah Dickey, she provided inserts for documentaries EVERYTHING'S COOL and BLUE VINYL by Judith Helfand & Dan Gold, THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE by Barak Goodman & John Maggio, and ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB by Carey Schonegeval. Her company, Hubbub Inc., created short form series' for the cable networks Nickelodeon and Lifetime.
Current such projects include Disturbing the Universe: Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, directed by Emily and Sarah Kunstler, Dancing in the Flames directed by Adam Reid/Capri Pictures and What's On Your Plate? directed by Catherine Gund.
A daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley, Emily worked on Faith Hubley's films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. She lives in Maplewood, NJ. |
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