> SFU Contemporary Arts and City TV sponsor Graham Greene tribute
SFU Contemporary Arts and City TV sponsor Graham Greene tribute
Contact:
Michael Boucher at the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters: praxis@sfu.ca; 778.782.7880
Michael Boucher at the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters: praxis@sfu.ca; 778.782.7880
June 18, 2008
Simon Fraser University’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters will celebrate the career of one of North America’s best-known aboriginal actors at a public event to be held Wednesday, June 25 at 7:30 pm in the Fletcher Challenge theatre at SFU’s Vancouver campus, 515 W. Hastings.
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated star of Dances with Wolves and other blockbusters such as Transamerica, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and The Green Mile, will reflect on his path to success and the challenges still ahead for First Nations artists.
The evening, sponsored by SFU Contemporary Arts and City TV, will be moderated by Vancouver actor/filmmaker Tantoo Cardinal, who played Greene’s wife in Dances with Wolves, and television producer/screenwriter and Praxis Fellow Tihemme Gagnon.
Greene is in town to serve as an advisor and actor in a new screenplay that is part of the Praxis summer reading workshop, June 24-26. Greene is one of more than 50 professional actors who will perform in private readings of six of the best screenplays selected from two national competitions sponsored by Praxis in 2007.
Workshop participants also benefit from the guidance of industry advisors Michael Miner (co-writer, Robocop); Peter Behrens (Governor General winner, Law of Dreams); Sharon Riis (writer, Loyalties); and Blake Corbett and Andrew Currie (producer & director of Fido).
“We’re delighted that Graham Greene has agreed not only to discuss his own artistic career, but also to mentor two emerging screenwriters,” says Praxis director Patricia Gruben. “We look forward to many more of these sorts of high-profile public events when SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts moves downtown to the Woodward’s site in late 2009.”
Tickets for the Graham Greene tribute are free, but seating is limited. To reserve space, send an e-mail to praxis@sfu.ca with GG RSVP in the subject line.
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Digital images of Graham Greene available by request to Praxis
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated star of Dances with Wolves and other blockbusters such as Transamerica, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and The Green Mile, will reflect on his path to success and the challenges still ahead for First Nations artists.
The evening, sponsored by SFU Contemporary Arts and City TV, will be moderated by Vancouver actor/filmmaker Tantoo Cardinal, who played Greene’s wife in Dances with Wolves, and television producer/screenwriter and Praxis Fellow Tihemme Gagnon.
Greene is in town to serve as an advisor and actor in a new screenplay that is part of the Praxis summer reading workshop, June 24-26. Greene is one of more than 50 professional actors who will perform in private readings of six of the best screenplays selected from two national competitions sponsored by Praxis in 2007.
Workshop participants also benefit from the guidance of industry advisors Michael Miner (co-writer, Robocop); Peter Behrens (Governor General winner, Law of Dreams); Sharon Riis (writer, Loyalties); and Blake Corbett and Andrew Currie (producer & director of Fido).
“We’re delighted that Graham Greene has agreed not only to discuss his own artistic career, but also to mentor two emerging screenwriters,” says Praxis director Patricia Gruben. “We look forward to many more of these sorts of high-profile public events when SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts moves downtown to the Woodward’s site in late 2009.”
Tickets for the Graham Greene tribute are free, but seating is limited. To reserve space, send an e-mail to praxis@sfu.ca with GG RSVP in the subject line.
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Digital images of Graham Greene available by request to Praxis