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Welcome to Academia
Monday, July 6, 2009 : 7:00pm to 10:00pm
University Park Campus
George Lucas Instructional Building
Room 108
Free
In a dark comedy, a university's faculty and administrators jockey for power in the classroom, boardroom and bedroom.
The School of Cinematic Arts and MAP Productions invite you and a guest to a special preview screening of Welcome to Academia, directed by Kirk Davis. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with executive producer and screenwriter Elzbieta Szoka and producer Sam Adelman.
Admission is free and open to all.
About Welcome to Academia
Sex and power games go hand-in-hand in Welcome to Academia, a dark satire that uses the university as a metaphor for personal and professional relationships.
An idealistic graduate student of modern history, on her journey to obtain a well deserved diploma, learns the hard way that merit and intellect are not the most important values in the corrupt and indifferent environment that she has faith in. The subject of her doctoral thesis, "Aftermath: Yalta, the 20th Century, and Beyond," symbolizes the power structures of her own reality — her doctoral committee, known as the Hydra, represents the three World War II superpowers, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
To make matters worse, her charming but oblivious thesis adviser abandons her amidst the swirl of departmental politics. Who will be the new dean? Will the new president ruin the curriculum and get rid of tenure? And what will happen to our young, innocent student of modern history, who has to pay a high price in order to get her diploma? Will the rite of passage that she has to go through make her end up like her oppressed oppressors?
Provided courtesy of MAP Productions. Unrated. Running Time: 85 minutes.
To learn more about the film and to view the trailer, click here.
About the School of Cinematic Arts Alumni Screening Series
This June through August, the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) Alumni Screening Series will host a wide array of film screenings and filmmaker Q&As, highlighting new blockbuster and independent American films, international and documentary features, and recent work by our SCA alumni. These screenings will be hosted in various SCA venues. The screenings are free to the public, but will require an electronic reservation, which can be made through the Web site for each individual screening. Many screenings will be overbooked to ensure that capacity is met in the theater. Some screenings will be run from digital sources.
To view the calendar for the Alumni Screening Series, click here.
About Check-In and Reservations
The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account once you successfully make an RSVP. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
About Parking
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is located at 900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $8 at USC Entrance Gate #5, located at the intersection of West Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue. We recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or Parking Structure D, at the far end of 34th Street. Please note that Parking Structure D cannot accommodate tall vehicles such as SUVs. Metered street parking is also available along West Jefferson Boulevard.