[CW-Grad] Fwd: UCR Theatre: Independent Filmmaking - a talk by PJ Raval

[Robin Russin]

Subject: UCR Theatre: Independent Filmmaking - a talk by PJ Raval

 

Filmmaker PJ Raval
Talks about Independent Filmmaking
 
FEB 17  Wed 3:10 – 5pm
Theatre Lab, Humanities 411 
located next to the University Theatre
Free and open to the campus
 
PJ RAVAL – Director/Producer/Cinematographer 
Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’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.
 
Learn more
 
View PJ Raval' s work at IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425860/
 
Information: 
Christina Youhas  (951) 827-4602   christina.youhas at ucr.edu

Robin Russin

Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu

"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples

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