CenterStage: Films

The Golden Door (Nuovomondo)

Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 2 PM & 7 PM
Ellis White Lecture Hall (Hammond Campus Center)

In the early 1900s, a poor Sicilian family leaves Italy in search of a better life in America. Before leaving they meet a mysterious woman named Lucy, a Brit, who wants to marry someone before the ship reaches the opposite shore. The tough—and sometimes cruel practices of Ellis Island—are also explored in this sensitive drama of immigration.

Miramax Films · D: Crialese · PG-13 · 120 min. · 2007 · in Italian and English with English subtitles

Sponsored by the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College

Park at the Wallace Civic Center and take the FSC shuttle.

Tickets:$7/general public;$5/staff, faculty and seniors;$3/FSC students (at the door)

Call the Weston Box Office for information.

Faculty Show: What‘s New?

Film and Video presentations

Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 7 PM

Ellis White Lecture Hall (Hammond Campus Center)

Art and Communications Media faculty have been creating new works in photography, sculpture, design, painting, drawing, film, video, and mixed media.   This exhibition highlights some of their best works completed since the last faculty show in 2006.  Participating faculty will speak at either the opening or the closing gallery talks. Video work will be screened on the evening of January 26.

Sara Colangelo

Making Movies in the Community

Tuesday, March 2 at 7 PM

Ellis White Lecture Hall (Hammond Campus Center)

Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts— in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.