{"id":25975,"date":"2015-12-09T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=25975"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:06:26","slug":"film-faculty-student-showing-work-in-pre-oscar-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/film-faculty-student-showing-work-in-pre-oscar-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Film faculty, student showing work in pre-Oscar festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two UWM film faculty members and a student will be featured in January\u00a0at major film festivals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25976\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Slamdance_b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25976\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Slamdance_b-300x200.png\" alt=\"A program from the 2015 Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A program from the 2015 Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lori Felker, senior lecturer in film, and Ben Balcom, associate lecturer in film, will screen new works at the Oscar-qualifying shorts competition, Slamdance Festival, Jan. 21, in Park City, Utah. Felker will unveil \u201cDiscontinuity\u201d as part of the narrative shorts program, and Balcom will present \u201cNotes from the Interior\u201d as part of the Experimental Shorts program<\/p>\n<p>In addition, UWM graduate film student, Sky Hopinka, will his screen his short documentary, \u201cJ\u00e1aji Approx,\u201d at the Sundance Film Festival, also in Park City. Hopinka pairs audio recordings of his father speaking in his native Ho-Chunk language with landscapes separately traversed by both father and son to explore themes of memory, familial relations and indigenous linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two UWM film faculty members and a student will be featured in January\u00a0at major film festivals. Lori Felker, senior lecturer in film, and Ben Balcom, associate lecturer in film, will screen new works at the Oscar-qualifying shorts competition, Slamdance Festival, Jan. 21, in Park City, Utah. 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