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Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming Series: An Evening with Lauren Wolkstein '04

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Friday, April 18, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Q&A to follow with filmmaker Lauren Wolkstein '04
AMI Showcase--Almuni Filmmaker Homecoming series

Screening of Short Films followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker. // Lauren Wolkstein is a New York City based filmmaker who received her BA from Duke University in 2004, and earned her MFA in film from Columbia University. Her short film, "Cigarette Candy", won Best Narrative Short at SXSW in 2010. And her latest two films, "The Strange Ones" and "Social Butterfly", both premiered at Sundance in 2011 and 2013 respectively. She produced the short film "Jonathan's Chest" that premiered at Sundance this year. In the summer of 2013, Filmmaker Magazine named her as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. // Works to be screened: "Cigarette Candy" tells the story of Eddie Van Buren, a traumatized teenage Marine who is forced to play the role of 'the hero' at his homecoming party. In pursuing a rebellious, precocious sixteen-year-old girl, Candy, he sees an opportunity to numb his pain and connect to a fellow lost soul. // "The Strange Ones": A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be.// "Social Butterfly": A 30-year-old American woman wanders into a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.

Contact: Hank Okazaki