Date: Sunday November 16, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, 1649 El Prado
General Admission $7; students, seniors, military and MoPA members $5
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, 1649 El Prado
General Admission $7; students, seniors, military and MoPA members $5
That’s right, it’s time again to celebrate the passion, dedication and fresh young talent found right here in San Diego and Tijuana. The festival, hosted and curated by KPBS film critic Beth Accomando, takes place at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park on Sunday November 16 at 6:00 pm. Film School Confidential is an event sponsored by the Media Arts Center San Diego (MACSD), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) and the San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS), all non-profit organizations. Film School Confidential is now in its seventh year.
Film School Confidential will feature short films by filmmakers from high school through grad school. According to Beth Accomando, “the films represent a remarkably diverse array of work and offer a great opportunity for people to see what young filmmakers are doing. Plus it provides student filmmakers with a chance to see what’s going on at other campuses.”
Part of the proceeds from this event will go to the Greg Muskewitz Scholarship Fund, a fund created in honor of the late San Diego film critic Greg Muskewitz who recently died of cancer. The scholarship is to be awarded each year to young filmmakers in the MACSD’s Teen Producers Project who display not only a passion for film but an interest in making their communities a better place, two things that Muskewitz always championed.
Accomando notes that unlike other student festivals, FSC is a curated event. There are no calls for entries and filmmakers do not have to pay a fee to submit their films. Instead, the films are chosen based on recommendations by teachers and professor, and by seeing the films at year end screenings at the various campuses. Accomando says that her desire to run this festival comes from the fact that her UCSD short film Writer’s Notebook was once screened at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. She says, “The festival is my way of saying thanks for that positive and inspiring experience. I want other young filmmakers to have that kind of experience early in their careers.”
For Festival information call 619-952-5768. For directions call MoPA at 619-238-7559. Images are available upon request. Filmmakers are also available for interviews.
Press Contact:
Beth Accomando
619-952-5768
baccomando@earthlink.net