Fall at Keene State College
Keene State is featuring some of the incredible students who will be joining the community in fall 2021. Welcome to Keene State College, Julia Stearns!
Where she’s from: Peabody, MA
Major: Film Studies
Choosing Keene State: Julia has been involved in the arts, especially theater productions, at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School. She’s been involved in productions from
Cabaret her freshman year to drama to this spring’s
The Wizard of Oz. She excels in the tech positions – stage management, camera work, lighting, and sound. When she and her parents were filtering through packets of information from a college fair in her junior year, she started reading about Keene State College’s Film Studies program. A campus visit and online tours sealed the deal. What she loves about film studies is that all aspects of the art and technology of film are covered.
The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire is producing a live online panel discussion program three days before this year s Oscar awards program (April 25, ABC Network). The ticketed panel discussion program, Oscar Talk!, will be presented live on Thursday, April 22, at 7pm with on-demand repeats available later.
The program will be hosted by writer/actor/director and Academy Award® winner Ernest Thompson (Best-Adapted Screenplay, On Golden Pond). Scheduled panelists include Estelle Parsons (Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress, Bonnie & Clyde), Russell Williams II (Oscar® for Achievement in Sound, Glory, and Dances with Wolves), Keene State College Film Studies professor emeritus & filmmaker Larry Benaquist and Peg Aloi, film & media critic and member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.