Like me, Evan Amaral (21C) grew up in a small, rural town in South Georgia. Fascinated with avant garde and non-Western cinema, Amaral hoped moving to Atlanta would allow him to see movies outside of the local AMC blockbusters and Western film canon with which he was familiar. “Short answer,” he said, “it didn’t.”
Amaral’s new virtual film series, programmed as his honors thesis project for the Department of Film and Media and presented by the Emory Cinematheque, runs through March 19 and features six film screenings followed by Zoom conversations with a panel of Emory faculty. The aptly named “New Cinematic Directions” aims to celebrate contemporary cinema that pushes the medium of film into new territories while telling stories that relate to shifting definitions of home and the future from rich and varied cultural contexts.
Source: https://emorywheel.com/making-nontraditional-cinema-accessible-with-new-cinematic-directions/