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TICKET 1001 controlled 2014 SCHOOL OF STAGEThe & SCREEN WCU PROGRAMSSchool of | Stage VOLUME & 4,Screen’s ISSUE 2 Film & Television Productioncontrolled Program CHAOS Upcoming Event controlled FILM FESTIVAL CONTROLLED CHAOS FILM FESTIVAL MAY 2, 7 PM CHAOS BARDO ARTS CENTER controlled FILM FESTIVAL HOSTED BY: Film & Television Production Students PM GENERAL SEATING PRESENTED BY: The School of Stage & Screen 7:00 Film & Television Production Program CHAOS LOCATION: Bardo Arts Center FILM FESTIVAL MAY2ND$8 IN ADVANCE TICKETS: $10, cash at the door only CHAOS $10 AT DOOR Come and join us at the sixth annual Controlled Chaos FILM FESTIVAL Film Festival. Enjoy an evening with the best films $8 IN ADVANCE written, directed and produced by this year’s Film & 7:00PM GENERAL SEATING Television Production Program’s student filmmakers. MAY2ND $10 AT DOOR “Six years ago Arledge said we really needed to screen of the best of our students’ work at the end of the year. It sounded like a great idea, and so was born the optimistically named First Annual Controlled Chaos Film Festival.” We held it in Niggli and had an overflow audience. In 2010 we moved it to the UC Theatre and had an overflow there. Since 2011 we’ve held the Festival in the Bardo Arts Center and last year had 500 admissions. WithBARDO the 6th ARTS CENTER Annual Controlled Chaos Film Festival coming up next Friday, May 2nd, it’s a good time to reflect on how far we’ve come. This May we will graduate 16 students, our largest senior class. Next year we expect to graduate 20. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Almost 90% of our graduates are either employed in the field, have started their own film production companies, or attend top graduate film schools: NYU, USC, University of Pennsylvania, the Dodge School at Chapman. They live and work in L.A., New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, Wilmington, Upcoming Events .........................1 Asheville, New Jersey, Tennessee, even Waynesville and Cullowhee, and they are sticking together and forming networks of FTP alums. Two of our senior project films were shot on the F65 camera Sony donated to the program a year ago, with a set of quality lenses purchased with a grant from the Now and Then .............................3 Council of Deans. “Jerry,” one of last year’s senior project films, won Best Student Film at this year’s Asheville Cinema Festival besting ninety other entries in the category. We changed our name from Featured Alumni ..........................4 MPTP to FTP – Film & Television Production. And we’re proud to say that three siblings of FTP grads entered FTP as freshmen this year. So we’re alive Student Projects ..........................6 and kicking. We love to hear what our grads are doing, so please Alumni News ...............................7 stay in touch, check out and friend our Facebook page, and come to the Festival this year if you can make it. We’ve got a crop of great new films and we’d Recent Productions ......................8 love to see you.” Jack Sholder Dance .........................................9 Director, Film & Television Production SCHOOL OF STAGE & SCREEN ADDITIONAL EVENTS 246 Central Drive, ST 233 The Fantasticks Part of the Galaxy of the Stars Series | April 27, 5-7 pm | Bardo Arts Center Cullowhee, NC 28723 Commencement | May 3 | Ramsey Center 828.227.7491 stageandscreen.wcu.edu FRONT ROW | 2014 PAGE 1 DIRECTOR’S CORNER importantly our filmmakers. It also features of the Theatre Department to what is now our collaboration from students and faculty film, theatre and dance department called from the School of Art & Design and the the School of Stage & Screen. For most of his School of Music. It is a great example of how tenure he was the technical director on all the arts on this campus foster collaboration. of the student productions and the designer It truly is the highlight of the season. on many of them. In the later years he specialized in teaching our theatre history Two of the films from last year’sControlled courses. In every capacity he has been a Chaos have gone on to critical acclaim. strong advocate for our student’s success. Jerry won the best student film in the 2013 Dr. Beam you will be missed but not Asheville Film Festival. Who knows where forgotten. Thank you for all you have done this year’s films will go. Don’t miss this for the arts at Western. Enjoy your well- year’s event that will take place on May 2nd earned retirement. at the Bardo Arts Center. Come witness the great work that our student filmmakers Please check out the rest of this newsletter have in store for you. Who knows you for all of the exciting things our students, could be on hand to see a future Academy faculty and alumni have been doing and the Its CHAOS time again for the School of Award winner. exciting projects that are ongoing. Stage & Screen but this time it is in a Dr. Beam is retiring after 43 years of service, See you at the Theatre….. controlled way. Of course I am referring dedicating his entire working career to the to the 6th annual Controlled Chaos student students of the theatre department of WCU. Film Festival. This festival highlights the He has been witness to the tremendous Thomas Salzman talents of the entire school, including our growth of the University and the evolution Director, School of Stage & Screen actors, designers, technicians, and most GUEST ARTIST: MERCEDES ELLINGTON Mercedes Ellington, granddaughter of jazz great, Duke Ellington was on campus February 26-28, 2014. Ms. Ellington’s visit was primarily to work with the Catamount Singers and Electric Soul for the April 24th Radio Show, Echoes of the Cotton Club. But during her visit she was able to squeeze in a master class for our Tap 2 students. The radio shows at WCU are under direction of collaborators of Steve Carlisle, Don Connelly, Bruce Frazier, Karyn Tomczak, and this year, Jonathan Henson. Read more about it here: http://thereporter.wcu. edu/2014/03/granddaughter-of-duke-ellington-works-with-students/. DON’T FORGET TO “LIKE” US ON FACEBOOK AT acebook.com/theatreandfilm FRONT ROW | 2014 PAGE 2 NOW AND THEN One of our beloved Theatre Professors, Dr. Richard Beam, will be retiring at the end of the spring 2014 semester. Here is what he had to say about his experiences here at WCU. You will be missed Dr. Beam. “To my colleagues in the School of Stage & Screen... When I first came to WCU, in the fall of 1971, At this point, the future to join the Department of Speech & Theatre is not definite. Bonnie Arts, Western was considered “the most rural and I are pretty strongly university in the country” and was (in my considering moving opinion) a rather underrated little school (5000± (at some point) to the students, as I remember it) in the mountains Omaha, Nebraska, area of North Carolina. A certain amount of that to be near our younger hasn’t changed, although there have been daughter. This is a surprisingly nice place to live, many changes along the way. Many of the with an active theatre and arts scene, several current campus buildings didn’t exist yet and colleges and universities in town and only about our population (faculty, staff and student) an hour from the University of Nebraska. I has grown considerably. Personally, I had my have thought of starting a blog, or a podcast, to M.A. from Indiana and had been working for discuss things of interest to me (perhaps others) two years with Theatre 65—The Children’s and I might look into brushing up on the guitar Theatre of Evanston, Illinois, then the longest and banjo and returning to performing some of continuously operating children’s theatre in the the folk music which was an important part of country, where I had been Technical Director my life “back in the day.” I also might want to and done some scenic and lighting design, as get involved with Nebraska Shakespeare and/or well as directing a couple of shows with, mostly, the Omaha Community Playhouse, if we move. Middle School students. Simply the chance to I can’t imagine that I won’t keep busy, although work with college students was an exciting I won’t miss 8:00 classes. change, which I have continued to enjoy, at least Whatever I do, a part of my heart will always most of the time. remain in Cullowhee and with the people I have The 3rd annual FOA silent and live auction Down the years, I picked up my Doctorate at known here. Looking back, it’s been a good run, was held on April 4, 2014 during the the University of Georgia; with my wife, Bonnie, but it’s time for that show to close and to look musical production of Les Misérables. All I watched our two daughters grow up, go to for new adventures and experiences. I’ll keep in the proceeds of the auction benefitted the school and move on with their lives; I’ve have touch with the School of Stage & Screen and let College of Fine and Performing Arts at WCU. had the chance to direct, design scenery and people know how to reach me, if they wish to do The auction exceeded expectations. Dean lighting (often both); fulfill professional roles as so. So, as this curtain comes down, remember to Robert Kehrberg estimates the final total Technical Director, Producer, Faculty Fellow for “Break a leg!” I’m looking forward to what the raised for arts scholarships and programs to Instructional Technology, Faculty Senator, Chair future may bring to all of us.