<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><img alt="KILLER OF SHEEP - A Film By Charles Burnett" height="276" width="754" border="0" src="cid:FBE80D28-3951-413E-B6CF-9F49AD1E2171@gateway.2wire.net"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><b>Just wanted to remind everyone that this Thursday, 17 January, at 6:00 p.m., Erica Edwards will be introducing the 30th anniversary showing of Charles Burnett's film, </b><i><b>Killer of Sheep,</b></i><b> at the California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. Please see below for details. </b></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 54, 67); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; "> RIVERSIDE – Charles Burnett’s KILLER OF SHEEP examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. <br><br> KILLER OF SHEEP was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival. Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time. <br><br> The California Museum of Photography presents screenings of KILLER OF SHEEP throughout January, with a special introduction to the film by Erica Edwards, professor of English at UC Riverside and jill moniz, Visual Arts Program Manager at the California African-American Museum, on <b>Thursday, January 17th at 6:00pm. Additional screenings take place on Thursday January 3rd and 31st at 6:00pm.</b> Admission to the museum is free on these nights. For information, contact the Education Department at (951) 827-4796 or check the website (<a href="http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu/">www.artsblock.ucr.edu</a> <a href="http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu/"><http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu></a> ).<br></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Traise Yamamoto</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Department of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div>Riverside, CA 92521-0323</div><div>951.827.1789</div><div>951.827.3967 (fax)</div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>