Eva Saks scheduled to attend April 3-4 screenings

Aaron Greer scheduled to attend April 14 screening

 

 

AARON GREER

http://www.gettingrown.com/

Aaron Greer is a professor in the Department of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama , where he teaches film and video production. He has produced and directed documentary, narrative and experimental films, which have been screened in film festivals nationally and internationally. His short film Not Color Blind, Just Near Sighted, distributed nationally by Big Film Shorts, was awarded Best of Show at the 2004 Wisconsin Film Festival.

Greer was born and raised in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . He earned his BA in history from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia . Aaron has worked for a repertory theater company, taught high school social studies, and served as a documentary researcher for Henry Hampton (producer of the award-winning Eyes on the Prize series).

No matter the genre in which he works, Greer is particularly concerned with depicting the lives of African Americans – especially children and youth – in a more authentic way than is common in American cinema.
http://www.gettingrown.com/

Filmography:

Not Color Blind, Just Near Sighted (2003)
Wisconsin Film Festival 2004 Best in Show Award
Wisconsin Film Festival 2004 Best Experimental Film Award
Wisconsin Film Festival 2004 Kodak Opportunity Award
University Film & Video Association 2003 Award Winner
Broadcast Educators Association 2004 Award Winner
Dahlonega International Film Festival
San Antonio Underground Film Festival
Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
Distributed by Big Film Shorts ( www.bigfilmshorts.com ).
Man, Made (2002)
Wisconsin Film Festival
Then What?! (2002)
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Bridges (2002)
If You Don’t Like the Weather (2001)
Wisconsin Film Festival
Next Frame Film & Video Festival
Pennsylvania School of Art & Design
Exhibition: Montage/Collage/Assembly
Fest Indies ( Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema)
Walk Into Our World (1999)
Pop Psych (1998)

 

EVA SAKS

Eva Saks is an award-winning writer and director based in New York City. For the past two seasons, she has written, directed and produced live-action comic shorts for SESAME STREET, among other clients. Her shorts ALPHABET PAM and ALPHABET ZELDA are currently on SESAME STREET. Her new SESAME STREET shorts about children’s health and fitness, ENERGY and SUNDAE SUNDAY, will air in the 2005-2006 season.

Eva’s award-winning shorts have have screened in hundreds of film festivals – including Sundance, Telluride, and Tribeca -- in the US, Canada, Central American, South America, Europe, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Asia, Indonesia, and Africa. They are currently airing on the Independent Film Channel in the US, as well as in Japan, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Awards/grants to Eva’s work include: a Student Academy Award; the BAFTA Award for Best Short at Mill Valley (for her film COLORFORMS), the New York State Council on the Arts Grant (for FAMILY VALUES), the Audience Choice Award at Stony Brook 2003 & 2004 (for her films CONFECTION and COLORFORMS), The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Children’s Jury Prize (COLORFORMS), the Zoinks! Toy Store Family Film Festival Award (to CONFECTION and COLORFORMS), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMMIE for Best Live-Action Short Film (COLORFORMS).

Eva is a New Yorker. She was educated at Fieldston, Yale College, Yale Law School, and New York University Film School. She recently finished two new shorts for children, KYLIE GOLDSTEIN ALL AMERICAN and GETTING MY GOAT. She is developing several “family-friendly” book, television and film projects. More information is available at www.EvaSaksMovies.com.

Eva will attend screenings of her short films exhibited on 4/3 and 4/4 in the "Real Kids" program for ages 5 and up at this year’s Childish Film Festival. "Real Kids" celebrates children with fiction and nonfiction shorts about ordinary kids living in familiar and far away places, and will feature Saks' award-winning films COLORFORMS, CONFECTION, TWO OF A KIND, as well as the world premieres of her new shorts, GETTING MY GOAT, and KYLIE GOLDSTEIN, ALL AMERICAN. Her made-for SESAME STREET film, ENERGY, will make its world premiere during the Childish FIlm Festival's public school program during the week of April 11-17.