Annual Film Night
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Delancey Street Screening Room
San Francisco
6:00 – 7:00pm reception
7:00 – 9:30pm program and films
SORRY! This event is now sold out!
Professor Dan Kleinman joins us to present some of the best student films from this past year.
Please join us for one of our most popular events.
The Columbia University Club of Northern California is pleased to welcome back Professor Dan Kleinman for our annual film night highlighting the cutting-edge work of Columbia students in the graduate film program.
Dan Kleinman’s original screenplays include Rage (Warner Bros.) and Welcome to Oblivion (Concord Films). He taught for 20 years at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and also developed and taught the first filmmaking course at Princeton. At Columbia, Kleinman was chair of the Film Division of the School of the Arts from 2000 to 2005. In addition, he has twice served as acting dean of the School, from 1998 to 1999 and most recently from 2005 to 2007.
Professor Kleinman will introduce and present the following films (subject to change) for our program. Filmed in France, Russia, Congo, and the United States, they represent selections from both the Sundance and the New York Film Festival.
Ralph, written and directed by Alex Winckler, Film ’07; featured in the 2008 New York Film Festival
PAL/SECAM, written and directed by Dmitry Povolotsky, Film ’08; featured in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival International Short Films program as well as the 2008 New York Film Festival
Les Vulnerables, written and directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Film ’07; selected as the Closing Night Short at the 2007 New York Film Festival
The Second Line, written and directed by John Magary, Film ’07; featured at Sundance in 2008 and also won the Special Jury Award for Short Films at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival
RSVP required by March 4. The cost to attend, including hors d’oeuvres, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages, is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers, in advance.
