Filmmakers, friends and family gathered for the annual UKY Film Festival screening and awards ceremony. The “blue carpet” was rolled out for filmmakers at the University of Kentucky’s Worsham Cinema on Friday, April 26. The festival presented films from five different categories: super short, animation, experimental/art, documentary and fiction. In the festival’s entirety, 21 films.
The 4th annual Research Slam featured three-minute talks on cutting-edge research from PhD students and postdocs competing for cash prizes as they honed their research communication skills.
Two feature-length films making their Iowa premieres at this week’s Julien Dubuque International Film Festival are from writer-directors who took huge leaps of faith to bring their screenplays to life.