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Tuesday, Feb. 27 | 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
Price: $10; Complimentary to Carolina Alumni members
Student price: $5; Complimentary to SAA members

Please Note:  We will accept registrations at the door once it closes online.  GAA/SAA members MUST have their active membership cards and photo ID.  All others must have $10 or $5.  No change will be provided.

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No red carpet here. In collaboration with Carolina Public Humanities, walk the Carolina blue carpet with us at historic Varsity Theatre on Franklin for our fourth annual Oscars Preview. The nominees, the snubs, the trends and outliers of the past year in film are all fair game for film experts Dana Coen and Rachel Schaevitz. Watch clips of the Best Picture nominees plus our panel’s alternative choices. Get insight into your ballot choices, and vote for Best Picture at this informed and lighthearted review of the current movie environment – all before the big event. And, of course we’ll be snacking on a movie-goer favorite, popcorn.

Evening Schedule

6-6:45 p.m. Carolina blue carpet arrivals and popcorn in the lobby.
6:45-8:30 p.m. Lighthearted review of contemporary film with Dana Coen and Rachel Schaevitz.

Professor Bios

DANA COEN is the director of the UNC Writing for the Screen and Stage program, a two-year, interdisciplinary minor, in which selected students study the craft of dramatic writing in preparation for careers in theatre, film and television. He is the creator, artistic director and producer of “Long Story Shorts,” the program’s annual one-act festival. A volume of 25 selected plays from the festival’s first five years is scheduled to be released in 2017. He is also the creator and producer of “Activated Art,” an ekphrastictheatre festival, presented in collaboration with the Ackland Art Museum. A former New York actor and director, he has written extensively for television, including co-executive producer/writer positions on the Fox series Bones, the CBS series JAG, where he spent eight seasons, and a comedy development deal for Walt Disney Studios. Screenwriting awards include The Jewish Image Award and The Templeton Prize. As a playwright, his produced work includes Property at the Carrboro Arts Center’s Redbird Festival, Los Angeles productions of Internal Bleeding, Tinkle Time, Bunches of Betty and Sympathy, which was also produced Off-Broadway.

DR. RACHEL SCHAEVITZ comes to Chapel Hill from Philadelphia, where she earned her Ph.D. in media and communication at Temple University, focusing on using film for social change. She has a background in independent film production as well as an MFA in film studies from Boston University and a BFA in film production from New York University. She has worked at New Line Cinema, DreamWorks SKG and on several indie films including Blue Valentine, Sugar and Cold Souls. At UNC, she teaches courses on film production in the public service.

Convenient Parking on the Hill

Parking is conveniently located throughout Franklin Street. Catch all the details.

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