Monday, March 21, 2005

March 21, 2005

Wilmington, N.C. – The Department of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington presents 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Ira Sachs at 1 p.m. Friday, April 8 in Morton Hall’s Bryan Auditorium on the UNCW campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Forty Shades of Blue, which Sachs co-wrote and directed, received the Grand Jury Prize, the top prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, starring Rip Torn and Dina Korzun, charts the relationship between a successful American record producer and his younger Russian wife.

Sachs received the Emerging Talent Award at the 1997 LA Outfest and was awarded a 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. He also served as a fellow at the MacDowell Artist Colony in 2001 and has made several shorts, including Vaudeville and Lady.

For more information on the Friday Moviemakers Series or to receive email notices of our upcoming events, visit the Department of Film Studies Web site at www.uncw.edu/filmstudies or contact filmstudies@uncw.edu or 910/962-7502.

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