Thursday, March 3, 7:00 PM Student Center Auditorium
Cheryl Dunye, a native of Philadelphia, was born in Liberia in 1966. She received her BA from Temple University and her MFA from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she used the video art form to explore race, sex, and class in the lives of black women.
Dunye has received numerous honors for her work in the media arts. In 1997, THE WATERMELON WOMAN was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 1996 the film was awarded best gay feature in the Berlin Film Festival and best feature in the Los Angeles OutFest, Torino, and Creteil Film Festivals. Cheryl has gone on to direct the highly acclaimed Stranger Inside for HBO in 2002, and the recent Hollywood comedy My Baby's Daddy (2004).
Friday, March 4, 7:00 PM Student Center Auditorium
Slawomir Grünberg is an Emmy Award Winning documentary producer, director, cameraman, and editor born in Lublin, Poland. He is a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz, where he studied cinematography and directing. He emigrated from Poland to the US in 1981, and has since directed and produced over 40 television documentaries. His independent works focus on critical social, political, and environmental issues and have won him international recognition. His film Fenceline: A Company Town Divided received a 2003 Environmental Media Association Award (EMA). This award, presented in Los Angeles to Slawomir Grunberg, was the first ever given in the documentary feature category.
His director of photography credits include Legacy which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001 and Sister Rose's Passion, which won the Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary short in 2005.
Saturday, March 5, 7:00 PM Student Center Auditorium
Filled to the brim with vibrancy of color, movement, and sound, Jenny Walsh's animation styling hold a unique, lighthearted, and child-like method. She leaves no room for the mundane as she often sucks her audience into surrealistic worlds that have endless energy, and a wide scope of emotion (whether loud or delicate). While she pays homage to the traditional elements of cartooning, she also respectfully breaks its conventions.
Jenny has worked on countless animations including Breaktime and the academy award nominated More. Her entry in last year's festival Rock Opera was an audience favorite and we are glad to have the opportunity to have her this year as a juror.
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