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Edison State College Rush Library Presents Fall 2013 Film Series

Sep 15, 2013

September 9, 2013 – FORT MYERS, FLA. – The Rush Library at Edison State College will present a FREE screening of three films for the Fall 2013 Film Series. The first film, When You Feel Love, which was shown at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, will be featured at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 20; the second film, Persepolis, will be featured at 7p.m. on Friday October 4. The final film in the series, The Singularity is Near, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 18. All films will be shown in the Rush Library Auditorium on the Edison State College Campus in Fort Myers.

“Our region has a strong love for theater and the arts, and Edison State College wants to create additional opportunities for students, and anyone with a passion for the arts, to participate in more than classroom experiences,” said Jane Bigelow, Faculty Librarian and adjunct history professor at Edison State College.

The opening film, When You Feel Love, follows the story of a young man who comes to understand what it really means to be in love after realizing his previous mistakes. This film was directed by Edison State College Fine Arts Adjunct Professor Steve Chase, and features music composed by Chris Ludvigsen, Rush Library Circulation Services Assistant. Edison State College alumni, Jed Krause and Willie Filkowski, star in this short film, which was featured in the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May. Light refreshments will be served prior to the screening and a Q&A with the Director and Composer will take place following the 25-minute film.

The second film, Persepolis, is a story about Marji, an audacious and outspoken Iranian girl who grows up in Iran and Austria during the Islamic Revolution. This film was directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. Nathan Lee with The Village Voice says, "You'd have to be blind not to see the excellence of Persepolis, an affecting, amusing, visually arresting adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic-novel memoir about growing up during the Iranian Revolution and coming of age amid the punk-rock intellectuals of Vienna."

The final film in the 2013 Rush Library Film Series, The Singularity is Near, is based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity is Near: when Humans Transcend Biology. The film is part documentary, part science fiction, and explores transhumanism and the evolving union of human and machine. This film is being screened as part of the Humanities Colloquium’s “Dueling Documentaries” event in November. Edison State College Humanities Professors Wendy Chase and Catherine Wilkins facilitate the Humanities Colloquium.

To learn more about this series visit http://www.edison.edu/library/filmseries. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Jane Bigelow at jbigelow@edison.edu.

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