Ferrum Professor to Present at International Film Festival

     Ferrum Professor of English, Dr. Lana Whited, will present on the topic of “Media Violence and Its Antisocial and Prosocial Effects: Mass Media Theories” at the International Festival of Animated Films (AniFest) being held this year in Třeboň, Czech Republic. The festival begins May 5th and continues through the 11th with hundreds of animated screenings, presentations from Oscar-nominated filmmakers and unique events planned throughout. Whited’s remarks will be a part of a special symposium commemorating the end of World War II, held on May 7th.

      From the Anifest Website: “Leading figures in world animation will also be coming to Třeboň. The honorary president of the festival will be Normand Roger from Canada, the musical composer, who has worked on twelve films that have been nominated for Academy Awards, six of which have won an Oscar. One of the Jury members will be Koji Yamamura from Japan, also an Oscar nominee. Another person who has been nominated for this award, in fact this year, is Bill Plympton, who will be lecturing to professional animators at AniFest… At the moment a further 59 foreign animators, for example, from Colombia, South Africa, the United States and Korea have confirmed that they will be coming to the festival.”

      For more information on Anifest, visit the official website in English at: http://www.anifest.cz/af2005/en.

      For more information or to speak to Lana Whited, please contact her at lwhited@ferrum.edu or by phone at (540) 365-4334.

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