I have been the Co-President of the Indiana Student Cinema Guild since 2016. Our biggest event of the fall semester is the Crimson Film Festival. Crimson takes place on Monday, December 11th at 7:00 p.m at the Indiana University Cinema. It is the largest fall festival of student content at Indiana University. Then-president Jacob Gabbard… Read more »
Guest post by Alexandra Coțofană, Director, ILFF. In 2017, the InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (ILFF) is honored to partner with the IU Cinema, one of its most trusted partners every year. ILFF aims to promote and support the intersections of human rights and documentary film and to facilitate dialogue between those who make documentaries… Read more »
Indiana University is lucky to have wonderful resources in its students and faculty, facilities, and access to technology. On Sunday, March 5 the IU Cinema will be screening the Double Exposure 2017 shorts program, a culmination of all of these resources. With the help of renowned IU faculty, students from IU Jacobs School of… Read more »
At the time of this writing, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing in Park City, Utah. One of the things Sundance is known for is helping to launch the careers of talented young filmmakers. Among this prestigious list of talent was a filmmaker whose style, interests and background were slightly different from… Read more »
A Place For Film editor Barbara Ann O’Leary chatted this week with experimental filmmaker Matt Lutz, whose work will screen Saturday at IU Cinema during the 2017 Iris Film Festival. BOL: You have two films in the 2017 Iris Film Festival: Thunderstorm (0:30) and Western Segment (7:19). Can you share a little about the films and… Read more »
Six years ago today Indiana University Cinema launched its first season with an unforgettable screening of Lawrence of Arabia—officially transforming the University Theatre from its origins as a live performance space to an amazing place for film. I was finally seeing the film as it was meant to be experienced—beautifully projected on the big screen.