Bowling Green State University student filmmakers will see their work on the big screen at two upcoming
festivals.
The student showcase at the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival will feature "Couch," a film shot and
edited by Aaron Brown, a senior from Pittsburgh majoring in theatre and film, and directed by Ryan
Manning, a senior from Wintersville majoring in theater and film.
The non-competitive screening of regional student-made films is at 3 p.m. March 23 in the Main Auditorium
of the Michigan Theater. Admission to the student showcase is free.
"Far from Asleep," a film by Isaac Cohen, a senior from Sylvania majoring in theater and film,
was selected for the 18th annual NextFrame Student Film and Video Festival in the experimental division.
The festival will go on a yearlong international tour visiting university campuses, museums, media art
centers and independent theaters throughout the U.S. and around the world. NextFrame is run entirely by
student filmmakers at Temple University’s film and media arts department.
Also, Ethan Roberts, a BGSU sophomore majoring in theater and film, won the Best Picture award for his
short film "Primacy of Experience" in WBGU-TV’s first season of "Cinema U."
Roberts produced a narrative on being a free spirit and using imagination and creativity to gain
understanding of the world around us based on Walt Whitman’s poem "When I Heard the Learn’d
Astronomer."
A panel of judges comprising five people from the community selected his entry as best picture from a
field of four finalists.
The BGSU Bookstore and WBGU-TV partnered to give the winning filmmaker an Apple iPad.
WBGU-TV and "Cinema U" staff are accepting short film projects for season two, coming this
fall.
For more information or to view all short films from season one, visit online:
www.wbgu.org/cinemau.
