Global Media Project participants have a chance this week to see films by director Milcho Manchevski, and also attend a conversation between Manchevski and Visiting Fellow Deborah Scranton.

Manchevski, a professor in NYU’s film program, directed the genre-defying Dust (2001)—in his terms, a “Balkan Western” which screens Wednesday April 18th in the Joukowsky Forum at 6.30 pm, His first feature film, Before the Rain (1994) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film festival and an Oscar nomination for best foreign film, and screens on Thursday April 19 at 6.30 pm in Smith Buonanno 101.

Manchevski shot his third feature film, Shadows, last year, and is finishing production. He will be on campus Friday, when Deborah Scranton (who describes the structure of The War Tapes as a homage to Before the Rain) and he will talk about film-making, the role of art in society, and violence in a conversation in the Joukowsky Forum on Friday April 20th, 2007, starting at 6pm (NOTE EARLIER TIME)

The films and conversation are also linked to a conference on “Balkan Literatures of Dissent,” with paper presentations on Friday April 20th.

More details at www.brown.edu/Departments/Modern_Greek_Studies

*** Please note that the conference organizers are looking for a student who'd be willing to videotape the event using the robotics in Joukowsky. If you are interested, please contact Keith_Brown@brown.edu or Ellen_Darling@brown.edu.