UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON

 

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By: Stephanie L. Kirby, PR Intern

 

WILMINGTON, NC – Dr. Renee Vincent, associate professor of art and theatre at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, was one of two filmmakers in the state to receive an $8,000 grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.

 

The North Carolina Arts Council awards film grants every other year and only when funds are available. Vincent received this grant on Dec. 9, 2002, in recognition of her film, Conversation with Kafka. The grant money will be spent on the development of Vincent’s next film.

 

Conversation with Kafka, a film shot on location in Prague, Czech Republic and Wilmington, North Carolina, is an amazing partnership between many departments, students, international programs, honors programs, and alumni at UNCW, professionals and vendors in the Wilmington community, and across the nation.

 

In addition, Vincent, director of the film, was awarded a Research Reassignment Award and a Summer Research Initiative from UNCW’s College of Arts and Sciences to facilitate the film project.

 

The film has gained national recognition from the Eastman Kodak Company, who generously donated all the film stock for the project and has featured the film in their In Camera Magazine.

 

The five cast members were all students in the UNCW Department of Art & Theatre, and they all had to double as crew members. It was the first time that most of the cast had been in a film. UNCW students also edited the film.

 

The process has been exciting and has strengthened old and new relationships between the university and the local, state and international film community.

 

In addition to the film’s unusual and successful production team, the project is experimenting with innovative and perhaps groundbreaking technology. The film was shot with a 16mm camera with 2.35 Research Anamorphic Lenses. This technology reflects 25 years of research by Joe Dunton & Company International, Inc., BSC (British Society of Cinematographers).

 

Joe Dunton provided all of the camera equipment at a discounted price. Dunton has also worked with the Harry Potter films.

 

 

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For more information contact Dr. Vincent at 910/962-3403

UNCW University Relations

601 South College Road, Wilmington NC 28403

(910)962-3861 or email [email protected]