Films For and About Children and Young Adults

Saturday, November 5 (EIU, Tarble Arts Center)

10am-1pm       Stop Motion Film Workshop led by Gabe Przygoda (ages 11-14)

Thursday, November 10 (EIU, Doudna Lecture Hall)

5pm                 Martian Child (PG, 106 minutes) with introduction by Robin Murray

Friday, November 11 (EIU, Tarble Arts Center Atrium)

10am               Screenwriters' Workshop with Craig Titley   

Symposium:

1:30-2:15pm   Dr. Donna Binns, “Paint or Thinner? Playing Mickey Mouse in Disney Epic Mickey”

2:15-3:00pm  Professor Joseph Heumann, “Bambi vs. Mr. Bug Goes to Town:Nature With or Without Us”

Break

3:15-4:00pm   Dr. Robin L. Murray, “Rankin/Bass Studios, Nature, and the
Supernatural: Where Technology Serves and Destroys”

4:00-4:45pm   Ms. Christine Eblin, “Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, and the
Controversy Surrounding Them”

Break

7pm                 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (93 minutes) with introduction by Chuck Koplinski

Saturday, November 12 (Charleston Public Library, Tarble Arts Center Atrium)

10:30am-12:00pm        Children’s Hands-On Activities led by Jeanne Goble, Joyce Jackson, and             Howard Taylor (Charleston Public Library)

1:00pm            Student Stop Motion Film Screening with introduction by Kit Morice                                 (Charleston Public Library)

1:30pm           Family Matinee Film screening of North by Robin Murray (Charleston Public Library)

7:00pm           Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (118 minutes) with Introduction by Craig Titley (Tarble Arts Center Atrium)