April 6, 2009
YORK, Pa. – York College’s Humanities Film Series will conclude this year with a program on The Black Maria Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition and award tour that recognizes independent film- and videomakers, at 7 p.m., April 23, in Room 218 of the Humanities Center. The event, which is open to the public free of charge, will feature a selection of short films from the 2009 Festival. The program will be introduced by the Festival’s director, who will also lead a question-and-answer session after the screenings.
The Black Maria was the world’s first motion picture studio. It was built in West Orange, N.J., in 1893 by Thomas Edison to facilitate the production of the earliest moving images known to the public. Edison’s motion picture technology allowed previously unimagined expressive possibilities and freed creative individuals to interpret and represent – and audiences to experience – the world as never before. It is this pioneering and adventuresome spirit of innovation and pursuit of fresh, insightful, passionate and diverse independent filmmaking that originally inspired The Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
Since 1981, this annual festival has been fulfilling its mission to advocate, exhibit and reward cutting-edge works from independent film- and videomakers. The festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award-winning films and videos.
Located in southcentral Pennsylvania, York College offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The College also offers master's programs in business, education and nursing. A center of affordable academic excellence, York is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the “real world” what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals regardless of the career they pursue.
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