Charles Gilpin in Ten Nights in a Barroom Noni Ford speaks with composer and Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner Jamey Guzman about her new score for the 1926 film Ten Nights in a Barroom, her advice for aspiring composers, and more. On November 15th, the IU Cinema will be screening Roy Calnek’s Ten Nights in… Read more »
Courtesy of Caleb Allison Ahead of our screenings of Perfect Days, IU Cinema’s founding director emeritus Jon Vickers spoke with student filmmaker Caleb Allison about Sol Folium, his new short that the Cinema will be playing before each showing of the Wim Wenders film. This article was originally published by CanopyBloomington. In a town like… Read more »
Eli Denson Noni Ford speaks with composer and Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner Eli Denson about his new score for the Gloria Swanson classic Queen Kelly, his advice for aspiring composers, and more. I had an opportunity to talk over Zoom with Eli Denson, the winner of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award who wrote a full… Read more »
Ahead of this month’s AAPI Movement Short Film Festival, Noni Ford speaks with one of the organizers of the event, Katelyn Wo, about how they chose their line-up, the importance and diversity of Asian representation, and more. One of the Creative Collaborations partners running a program this April is the Asian Culture Center. They will… Read more »
Still from Decay/Rozpad In this interview with Peter Almond, the co-producer of the Ukrainian classic Decay/Rozpad, guest writer Stanislav Menzelevskyi learns what the political landscape was like during the film’s production, how Almond came to the project, and more. In 1989, Peter Almond, an American scriptwriter and producer, was visiting his parents in Kyiv. His… Read more »
Ebenezer Eferobor (Photo by Chris Meyer/Indiana University) Noni Ford speaks with composer, Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner, and former IU Cinema projectionist Ebenezer Eferobor about his new score for the Ozu classic Dragnet Girl, why he thinks like an athlete rather than a musician when he is composing, and more. Ahead of the world premiere… Read more »