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PASSWORD: FilmWeek20

Black X Film Festival Co-Founder Shane Watson will screen his Student Academy Award nominated film, I Live Here, followed by a Q&A moderated by Academy and Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Rob Epstein (CCA Faculty). He’ll finish the talk with a discussion about the conception and success of Black X Film Festival in its inaugural year. 

***Open to the CCA Community.

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE FIRST-EVER CCA FILM WEEK, a time for our community to come together, to explore, reflect on and celebrate the power and potential of the moving image, the diversity of voices working in this field and our questions related to racial and social justice.

PARTICIPANT BIOS:

One film course in undergrad sparked Shane T. Watson’s filmmaking career. Since then he’s been nominated for a Student Academy Award for his film, I Live Here  and gone on to work on multiple feature films. In alignment with his film work that investigates the connection or disconnection of his racial and sexual identities, he recently co-founded Black X Film Festival to showcase Black artists leveraging their experiences to make a statement.

Rob Epstein (CCA Faculty) is a director, writer, and producer of both nonfiction and scripted narrative film. Rob has been honored with two Academy Awards, multiple Emmy Awards, Peabodys and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships for a body of work that has screened worldwide, in cinemas, on television, digital platforms, at museums, and at leading international film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, Tribeca, OutFest and Frameline. He is the recipient of the International Documentary Association's (IDA) Pioneer Award, which acknowledges filmmakers who have amassed a history of producing films that effect change within the documentary genre.