Film by UNCW Professor Monahan to be Featured on UNC-TV
9/7/2005 10:23:25 AM
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By Emily Walsh, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. - Monkey Junction, a film written, edited and directed by Dave Monahan, a University of North Carolina Wilmington assistant professor of film studies, will be broadcast Oct. 29 on UNC-TV. The film was featured Aug. 18 at The Light Factory’s Fifth Annual Carolinas Filmmakers Showcase in Charlotte and will be screened Sept. 9 at The Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi.
Monkey Junction is the story of a guilt-ridden father who flees his home and wife after the death of his daughter and entrenches himself in an amusement park tubular play-maze. His plastic womb is soon invaded by a pregnant teenager charged with getting him out in time for an impending birthday party.
Monahan’s recently completed project Ringo, an experimental musical western starring John Wayne and Roy Rogers, premiered Aug. 4 at the University Film and Video Association conference in Chicago. Snapshot, a short film directed by UNCW adjunct professor Andrew Lund, shot by film studies instructor Glenn Pack, and edited by Monahan, was also screened at the conference.
Lou Buttino, UNCW film studies department chair and professor, says of Monahan’s accomplishments, “Dave was one of the top students at Columbia University, where he received this MFA and he is one of our most outstanding teachers. His creative work is becoming more and more widely noticed at festivals, conferences, and among professionals.”
Monahan’s profile of Wilmington’s Annual Cucalorus Festival of Independent Film was featured in the September/October 2005 issue of Film International, the bi-monthly cinema journal. The article focused on the festival’s popular reputation, independent spirit and innovative programming.
For more information on the UNCW film studies department, please contact dept. chair Lou Buttino at 910/962.7141.
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