GMF 2018 Team
Director: Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Committee: Jan Uelzmann, Jin Liu, Stephanie Boulard, Greg Zinman
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
“Our Germany” (2015): Documenting the Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Germany
Screening of Our Germany and conversation with director Thomas Lauterbach.
Organizer: Jan Uelzmann
Date: March 29, 2018
Political Comics in China: The Works of Li Xiaoguai
Born in 1974, Li Xiaoguai is an online grassroots comic artist. He set up his blog in 2006, and soon became one of China’s most influential bloggers with his distinctive style of blogging with comic drawings. His popularity increased as a cyber-celebrity during the movement to create new Chinese characters online in 2009. He is an icon of Internet culture and youth culture in contemporary China. The Georgia Institute of Technology welcomed the artist Li Xiaoguai to discuss his works on political and social commentary.
Organizer: Jin Liu
Date: April 2, 2018
“Swagger” (2016): Urban Stories in the Midst of Astonishing Minds
Swagger documents the stories of minority teenagers growing up in Paris’ housing projects. This event featured a film screening and conversation with director Olivier Babinet.
Organizer: Stephanie Boulard
Date: April 4, 2018
“The Cry of the Forest” (2008): Bolivian Indigenous Media and Protection of the Forest
The Cry of the Forest, Bolivia’s first indigenous feature film, is based on true events that led to the indigenous demonstration of 1990 and 1996, two events related to the struggle against deforestation that changed the political history of Bolivia forever.
Organizer: Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Date: April 12, 2018
“No Shooting Stars” (2016)
Basim Magdy’s films are often surrealist portraits of situations that involve disappointment and an absurd twist of events. However, in No Shooting Stars Magdy turns his camera to the uncontrollable and unknowable character of the ocean. In the film, an unidentified inhabitant of the open seas speaks, while a dreamlike background slides by out of tune with the narration. The narrator – who might be a sea monster, a mermaid or an old sea turtle – has an enticing familiarity, but its identity slips away and the text starts meandering like a poem against a background where underwater imagery mixes with landlike things like fireworks and flames.
Organizer: Greg Zinman
Date: April 18, 2018