<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>UCR Theatre: Independent Filmmaking - a talk by PJ Raval</b><br></span></div><br><div>
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<font size="5"><b>Filmmaker PJ Raval<br>
Talks about Independent Filmmaking<br>
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<b>FEB 17 Wed 3:10 – 5pm<br>
Theatre Lab, Humanities 411 <br>
</b>located next to the University Theatre<br>
<b>Free and open to the campus<br>
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<b>PJ RAVAL – Director/Producer/Cinematographer <br>
</b>Named one of <i>Filmmaker Magazine</i>’s ‘25 new faces of independent
film 2006 , PJ’s films have won awards such as Best Narrative Short at
the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Int’l Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the
Cinematexas Int’l Film Festival, the Betty Nowlin Award for Excellence in
Filmmaking, and the Director’s Award at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
PJ’s short film LEAD ROLE: FATHER was nominated for the Golden Reel award
at the VC Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and listed as the
“programmer’s pick”. In 2004 PJ’s body of film work screened at the
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco sponsored by the
Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists (AECA), and then again in 2006 as
part of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival’s Filmmaker Series. PJ
just completed TRINIDAD a feature documentary that uncovers Trinidad,
Colorado’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex change capital
of the world” and follows three influential transgender women who may
steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the “transsexual mecca”.
TRINIDAD recently won the Cleveland International Film Festival
Documentary Jury Award and is currently making it’s festival tour slated
to air on SHOWTIME this summer as well as LOGO network. Currently, PJ is
developing another feature length documentary also featuring the LGBTQ
community as well as completing a narrative feature script called “boys
without cars” with screenwriter Gregg Rounds. PJ has also been
collaborating on a collection of film work with performer and “drag
terrorist” Paul Soileau under the name Three dollar Cinema.<br>
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<a href="http://events.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?comp_id=31490:20100217151000&unit=2">
Learn more</a><br>
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View PJ Raval' s work at IMDB<br>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425860/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425860/<br>
</a> <br>
<b>Information: <br>
Christina Youhas (951) 827-4602
<a href="mailto:christina.youhas@ucr.edu">christina.youhas@ucr.edu</a></b> </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Robin Russin</div><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor<br>Department of Theatre<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>(951) 827-2707<br>(213) 949-1061 cel<br><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a><br><br>"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville</div><div><br>"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples</div></div></span></span>
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