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November 21, 2007
SFU’s first-ever South Asia Festival winds up tonight with a free screening of the movie Omkara in Room 1800 at the Harbour Centre campus.
Matthew Robbins, an American screenwriter who helped Omkara’s director Vishal Bharadwaj write the film’s script, will introduce the film. Robbins is just back from India and working with Bharadwaj on another film. He is available to comment on the increasingly successful marriage of Western and South Asian talent in filmmaking these days.
Robbins, Walter Murch, an American film and sound editor, and Andrew Feenberg, SFU Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology, are available to discuss how technology is changing our viewing of movies. The trio will speak at a presentation called The Age of Immersion at 7 p.m. in room 1900 at the Harbour Centre campus, Friday, Nov. 23.
Also available to talk about technologically and culturally driven changes in the film industry are Chin Banerjee and Patricia Gruben. Banerjee is a retired SFU English professor. Gruben is an SFU associate professor of film and co-founder of Praxis, SFU's resource centre for screenwriters. Both helped organize SFU’s South Asian festival.
Patricia Gruben, 604.418.5251 (cell) (contact for Walter Murch and Matthew Robbins)
Chin Banerjee, 604.421.6752, cbanerjee@shaw.ca
Andrew Feenberg, 604.218.6047 (cell), feenberg@sfu.ca
Matthew Robbins, an American screenwriter who helped Omkara’s director Vishal Bharadwaj write the film’s script, will introduce the film. Robbins is just back from India and working with Bharadwaj on another film. He is available to comment on the increasingly successful marriage of Western and South Asian talent in filmmaking these days.
Robbins, Walter Murch, an American film and sound editor, and Andrew Feenberg, SFU Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology, are available to discuss how technology is changing our viewing of movies. The trio will speak at a presentation called The Age of Immersion at 7 p.m. in room 1900 at the Harbour Centre campus, Friday, Nov. 23.
Also available to talk about technologically and culturally driven changes in the film industry are Chin Banerjee and Patricia Gruben. Banerjee is a retired SFU English professor. Gruben is an SFU associate professor of film and co-founder of Praxis, SFU's resource centre for screenwriters. Both helped organize SFU’s South Asian festival.
Patricia Gruben, 604.418.5251 (cell) (contact for Walter Murch and Matthew Robbins)
Chin Banerjee, 604.421.6752, cbanerjee@shaw.ca
Andrew Feenberg, 604.218.6047 (cell), feenberg@sfu.ca