Events:

To all,

After over thirty five years at our fair institution, Professor Emeritus George Semsel, noted film scholar and filmmaker, is teaching his last courses at Ohio University.

Dr. Semsel, an experimentalist given to personal works akin to poetry, has been making films since 1953. During the Underground Film Movement of the 1960's, he was associated with Marie Menken and Willard Maas in the Gryphon Film Group. In 1984, Dr. Semsel spent a year working in the Chinese film industry under the Ministry of Culture. His first Fulbright sent him to Thailand, and his second had him teaching modern American literature and film at Shandong University in the People's Republic of China. A major pioneer of Chinese film studies, Dr. Semsel published the first book on the subject following the cultural revolution, and in two others introduced Chinese film theory to the U.S.

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News:

• Associate professor Steven Ross has been made interim director of the school of film.

• "Border post" won another film festival. This time - "Film and literary award" - a main award at the Film by the Sea International Film Festival in Holland.

• Listen to Jack Wright's interview on NPR about Music of Coal

• Two years in the maiing! Professor Jack Wright produces Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields.

• The School of Film Post Production team edits new Ohio University "Discover the Promise" ad campaign. MFA student Nishantne Josson is one of the editors and a featured student in , See "Discover the Promise" - see Outlook article

• "Winesburg, Ohio" by Jennifer Granville, and "Lost in Winesburg" by Thomas Britt screen at Stuart Opera House. The Ohio University premier will be in January at Baker Center.

• Professor George S. Semsel will be retiring after the fall 2007 quarter. This is your last chance to take one of his courses!

• Professor Adam Knee featured in "True Asian Horror," a two-part documentary premiering on Discovery Channel's Asian and Australian networks this month.

• Steven Ross on tour Liberia: A Fragile Peace and Fishers of Dar: see blog!

• "Border Post" is in the Official Competition of the 54th San Sebastian Film Festival

• "Border Post" recieves positive review in the New York Times

• "Border Post" is selected for EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2006

• Professor Rajko Grlic's latest film "Border Post" Reviewed in Variety

• Great critical success for "Border Post"

• Professor Adam Knee featured in "Outlook:Ohio University News & Information"

• Professor Jennifer Granville to produce Feature film: "Winesburg, Ohio"

• LIBERIA: LONE STAR RISING a film by Professor Steve Ross and Andrew Carlson

• Professor Adam Knee awarded Fulbright!

• Dr. Keith M. Harris selected to participate in the NEH summer institute on African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal.

• Jennifer Granville's cowritten screenplay "Rumspringa" sold.