(Los Angeles, CA) – UCLA Film & Television Archive has partnered with Los Angeles Filmforum and New York University’s Orphan Film Symposium to present an eclectic mix of screenings and discussions on the subject of orphan films at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. Rare footage screenings will take place May 13th and 14th.
Within the profession of film preservation, the term “Orphan Films” is applied to a wide variety of neglected works, many previously unpreserved because their owners have abandoned them, or because no copyright holder could be found.
Films to be screened include striking experimental and personal films, evocative verite and “ephemeral” accounts of historic events, and even a UCLA student film edited by future iconic rocker, Jim Morrison of The Doors.
Experts presenting films they’ve previously worked on include Professor Jan Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Dan Streible, founder of Orphan Film Symposium, along with 25 other authorities in the field.
For additional information and a complete schedule, or to purchase tickets, visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-05-13/celebrating-orphan-films
For additional information on the Orphan Films Symposium visit http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans7/
For additional information on the Los Angeles Filmforum visit http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Home.html
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive. Screenwriter-director Curtis Hanson (Eight Mile, L.A. Confidential) is the Archive's Honorary Chairman.
Los Angeles FilmForum was incorporated in 1975 to promote a greater understanding of film as an art form and the filmmaker as an artist by providing a forum for independently produced, experimental films, which have little opportunity of reaching the general public through normal channels of commercial distribution.
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