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Films and Filmmakers: "Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2015)"

November 3, 2015, 7:00 pm
Location Chapin Hall (John J. Cali School of Music) - Leshowitz Recital Hall
SponsorSchool of Communication and Media, The Film Institute and Montclair StateCostNo cost, open to the publicMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.montclair.edu/‌arts/‌the-film-institute-at-montclair-state/‌films-and-filmmakers-series/‌Posted InSchool of Communication and Media

Chuck Workman is a former President of the International Documentary Association, was a Commissioner of the Santa Monica Arts Commission, and is a member of the Grants Committee of the Motion Picture Academy. He has lectured at 30 universities and media arts centers and is currently a Distinguished Artist and Coordinator of the Film Program at Purchase College in New York.  Workman has written and directed numerous fictional films, including the 1986 short Precious Images, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and has become the most widely shown short in film history. He has also written, directed and produced several documentaries, including SuperstarThe First 100 Years, The Source, and Visionaries, all of which have premiered at the top film festivals around the world. He recently completed a feature length film essay What is Cinema?, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, and his most recent film is Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles.

Workman is known for directing and editing short films and openings for twenty Academy Awards presentations and two Emmy Award shows, work that has earned him his own Oscar and Emmy nominations. He has also created trailers for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti, Paris, Texas and other major films.

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