The 16th annual student-run Johns Hopkins Film Fest returns on Friday, April 6, for a three-day celebration highlighting exceptional films from independent, international, and student filmmakers along with feature presentations of influential films.
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Film Society, the festival runs through Sunday, April 8, with all events taking place in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the university's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
This year's theme is "Film's Not Dead," a declaration of how film as a medium and method of artistic expression is alive and well. New studio regulations are forcing celluloid film projectors out of many movie theatres to make way for digital projection. With that in mind, the Johns Hopkins Film Society says it hopes this year's festival will celebrate and honor film, in both content and presentation: Several films will be shown using 35 mm prints - an opportunity that is becoming increasingly rare - on the third-largest screen in Maryland.
The festival's feature-length presentations will include Federico Fellini's film-about-filmmaking, 8 ½ (1963) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 6; Charles Laughton's gothic classic Night of the Hunter (1955) at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 7; and Ivan Reitman's crowd favorite, Ghostbusters (1984) at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 8. There will also be a special screening of the 2003 film Bad Boys II, hosted by Wham City members Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. In addition to the feature presentations, there will be several short programs including international films as well as films by local students.
Admission is free for Johns Hopkins students and affiliates with I.D. For the public, screening passes are $5. Day passes are $10. Festival passes are $20. All tickets can be bought at any show and are valid for the entirety of Film Fest 2012.
Source: Johns Hopkins University
