Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was invited to Chattanooga, Tennesee by the Association of Visual Arts (AVA), one of the oldest arts organizations in the region, to present a variety of lectures, school visits, and presentations.
A unique initiative, CAPTURE joins community members who upload amateur-produced, mobile-phone captured content via a specially designed app with professional film editors and local musicians to create short films.
The project partnered with Kansas City, Missouri, another city with high speed fiber optics. The CAPTURE 2016 theme was Transformation. The community filmmakers submitted video and the Capture Film Teams created the final short films using this theme to guide their creative work.
Zimmermann also participated in AVA’s new, expanded education and outreach programs for CAPTURE. AVA partnered with the film and TV production departments of both Howard and Signal Mountain High Schools to create their own CAPTURE films. Zimmermann spoke to students from those programs about documentary.
In addition, Zimmermann presented a lecture at Chattanooga State College on new media, documentary, public media, and their relationship to social and political issues.
Finally, during the CAPTURE Premiere Screening on September 18 at 5:30pm at Cine-Rama, the local nonprofit art cinema, Zimmermann, AVA’s guest juror, choose and presented the award for Best in Show.
The mission of AVA is to connect visual arts and community in personal and experiential ways because art makes people and communities better.
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