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CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Arts & Culture,Film/Movie,Academic
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Cinema Studies invites UO students to: "Filmm
 aking Masterclass with Alexi Pappas and Laura Wagner."\n\nCo-director Alexi
  Pappas and Producer Laura Wagner will offer insight into the creative and 
 logistical challenges of making an independent feature in Tracktown–Eugene\
 , OR. An unconventional coming-of-age film that blurs the line between fict
 ion and lived athletic experience\, Tracktown (2016) draws on Pappas’s dual
  identity as an elite Olympic runner and filmmaker.\n\nFree and open to UO 
 students.\n\nAbout the Filmmakers\n\nAlexi Pappas–Co-director\, Co-writer: 
 Alexi is a filmmaker and a professional athlete training for the 2016 Olymp
 ics in the 10\,000 meters. Alexi completed her thesis in poetry at Dartmout
 h College where she graduated magna cum laude before running off to compete
  in the 2012 Olympic Track & Field Trials. In 2011 Alexi co-wrote the scrip
 t for the award-winning feature film Tall as the Baobab Tree. Alexi was als
 o a member of the Dog Day Players improv theatre troupe at Dartmouth and is
  a graduate of the UCB Theater improv program in New York City. She is the 
 co-founder of Film Fatales Portland.\n\nLaura Wagner–Producer: Laura\, foun
 der of Bay Bridge Productions\, produces independent films and theatre proj
 ects. She is the recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing F
 ellowship\, the San Francisco Film Society’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Fell
 owship\, and the IFP/Cannes Marche Du Film Producer’s Network Fellowship. S
 he was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for It Felt Like Love\
 , the critically acclaimed feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film
  Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.\n\nFilmlandia Mast
 erclass: A Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series Special Event\n\nCosponsored b
 y: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment\; Department of Art\; Dep
 artment of Comparative Literature\; Department of English\; Department of H
 istory\; Department of Indigenous\, Race\, and Ethnic Studies\; Native Amer
 ican and Indigenous Studies\; Folklore and Public Culture Program\; School 
 of Journalism and Communication\; Art House Theater\; DUX Present\; Jordan 
 Schnitzer Museum of Art\; Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western Histo
 ry\; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Ar
 ts\, Sciences\, and Humanities.
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LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 177
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SUMMARY:Cinema Studies Presents: "Filmmaking Masterclass with Alexi Pappas 
 and Laura Wagner"
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