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 Scott Myers
Tuesday, Feb. 23 | 6-8:30 p.m.
Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
No red carpet here. In collaboration with the Humanities Program, walk the Carolina blue carpet with us at the historical Varsity Theatre for an Oscars preview event. The nominees, the snubs, the trends and outliers of the past year in film are all fair game for film experts Dana Coen and Scott Myers of UNC’s writing for the stage and screen program. Snack on a movie-goer favorite – popcorn! – as we get tips for our Oscar ballot, and see clips of the nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards before the big event.
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 Scott Myers
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 and producer of Long Story Shorts, the program’s annual one-act festival, and “Activated Art,” an ekphrastic theatre 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.
Since selling his spec script K-9 in 1987, SCOTT MYERS has written nearly 30 projects for every major Hollywood studio and broadcast network. His film writing credits include K-9 starring Jim Belushi, Alaska starring Vincent Kartheisher and Trojan War starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. In 2002, he began teaching screenwriting in his spare time. He won the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Outstanding Instructor Award in 2005 and currently teaches in the Writing for Screen and Stage program at UNC. From 2002-10, Scott was an executive producer at Trailblazer Studios, a television production company. He is co-founder of Screenwriting Master Class, a unique online resource for writers. Scott is a member of the Writers’ Guild of America, west, and a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale University Divinity School.
Parking is conveniently located throughout Franklin Street. Catch all the details here.