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Harvard what? Harvard Shorts Film Festival, the first of its kind at Harvard, is a university-wide filmmaking contest that will feature the best three-minute digital movies made by anyone in the Harvard community. If walking down the crimson carpet and enjoying celebrity status aren’t enough incentives, winners can also win prizes...
...Arts and Humanities, Harvard Shorts is the brainchild of Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies who is a strong proponent of incorporating media projects into teaching and course assignments (like swapping podcasts for papers). Through this contest, Kuriyama hopes to demonstrate the powerful ways that a film can convey a message to its audience, and how the use of images and music can make a subject matter more interesting...
...thought of a particular artist or school of art in gender terms," she says. And yet she accepts the idea that she might be a role model and is sympathetic to the fact that, as she puts it, "the journey for women in many venues - be it politics, business, film - is a long and difficult struggle for equity." It's come up in her own career: before Oliver Stone agreed to produce her movie Blue Steel, she was having difficulty getting it made because it starred a woman (Jamie Lee Curtis) instead of a man as a police officer. Still...
...switched on too, reminiscing warmly about an Iraqi actor who appears in the film and is now living in the U.S., whom she's put in touch with a casting agent. Her next project is directing a pilot for an HBO series called The Miraculous Year. After that comes another collaboration with Boal, a movie about the drug trade in South America. And in the near future there are the Oscars. She fields a question the other Best Director nominees probably aren't being asked: What's she wearing? She doesn't know yet, but she has one guideline: nothing...
...heard the man. Forget all that crimson nonsense and pretend you're in a black-and-white film for a few hours. You'll be so classy, the opposing teams won't stand a chance...