Summer Events

Summer Shorts

Tuesdays & Wednesdays in Davies Theatre
Thursdays at The State: Regional Arts Center Gallery
11:30 am & 6:30 pm

Short film compilations, ranging from winners of the UW-Eau Claire Student Independent Film Festival to the internationally acclaimed The World According to Shorts, will screen both on campus and at The State: Regional Arts Center in downtown Eau Claire. Presented in collaboration with the Eau Claire Regional Arts Council and Volume One magazine.

The Best of the STIFFE
July 1–3
Award-winning shorts by UW-Eau Claire indie filmmakers will screen. The Student Independent Film Festival has been presented annually since 1999 by the University Activities Commission of the Student Senate.
www.uwec.edu/studentsenate/UAC/films/#STIFFE

2007 Wis-Kino Kabaret Films
July 8–10
A collaborative of independent filmmakers in the Madison area, Wis-Kino is Wisconsin’s chapter of the international Kino filmmaking movement. The Kabaret is a whirlwind filmmaking challenge in which filmmakers have a short period of time to complete a five-minute film.
www.wis-kino.com

34th Annual Student Academy Awards Gold Medalists
July 15–17
Each year over 500 college and university film students compete for The Student Academy Awards, is a national competition conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Foundation. Films are judged in four categories: Animation, Documentary, Narrative and Alternative.
www.oscars.org/saa

The World According to Shorts
July 22–24
Culled from the best short films to screen internationally in recent years, this 2006 sampling combines the abstract, absurd and absorbing. “This year’s edition has six films, ranging from 9 to 28 minutes each, from Chile, Australia, Norway, Poland, Brazil and Germany. There’s not a clunker in the bunch” (New York Post).
www.worldaccordingtoshorts.com

The Best of the 48-Hour Video Project
July 29–31
Originating in 2004 as a community filmmaking project in which participants had 24 hours to shoot, edit and create a short film, the 24- and now 48-Hour Video Projects have been remarkable hits. This screening will present some of the best films shot by Chippewa Valley community members.

Summer Events are free to attend and are funded by UW-Eau Claire student segregated fees.