Ithaca College

Thu., Oct. 22, 4 p.m., Friends 309 -- A free and open-to-all workshop with award winning film director and screenwriter, Jay Craven, and film composers, Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus. Craven has done seven feature films with actors including Martin Sheen, Kris Kristofferson, Michael J. Fox, Bruce Dern, Jacqueline Bisset, Ernie Hudson, Genevieve Bujold and more. Hyman and Claus have done music for over 20 feature and nationally broadcast documentary films and have worked with Craven on many of his films.

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the magic of film making and film scoring. The workshop will include film excerpt screenings, music examples, and discussion about the specifics of joining picture and story with music.

Craven also directs the Movies from Marlboro program, at Marlboro College in Vermont, in which 20 professionals collaborate with 30 students from multiple colleges to make narrative feature films for national release. Students from any college may participate. Info available at the workshop.

For more about Jay Craven: http://kingdomcounty.org/about/jay/
For more about Hyman and Claus: www.j2filmmusic.com

The workshop will take place: Thursday, October 22, 4-5:30 p.m., in Friends 309. All who attend will receive free tickets to screenings at Cinemapolis (downtown Ithaca) of Craven's two most recent films: Peter and John, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Christian Coulson (Harry Potter), and Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black); and Northern Borders, starring Bruce Dern and Genevieve Bujold. The films will be shown Thursday, Oct. 22 -- Peter and John at 6:30 p.m. and Northern Borders at 8:45. Both screenings will include Q&A with Craven.

This event is co-sponsored by FLEFF, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patty Zimmerman -- patty@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.