{"id":10384,"date":"2012-01-20T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:16:45","slug":"alumna%e2%80%99s-trailer-park-film-to-screen-at-slamdance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/20\/alumna%e2%80%99s-trailer-park-film-to-screen-at-slamdance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna\u2019s trailer park film to screen at Slamdance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10386\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/20\/alumna%e2%80%99s-trailer-park-film-to-screen-at-slamdance\/parkvert\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10386\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10386\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/01\/ParkVert-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a girl sitting on a railroad track.\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz Cambron\u2019s narrative short film, PARK, will screen at this year\u2019s Slamdance Film Festival.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the stars of Hollywood descend on Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, one Wright State graduate is preparing to make her own festival debut.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cambron\u2019s narrative short film, <em>PARK<\/em>, will screen at this year\u2019s Slamdance Film Festival. Slamdance is the only major festival to be entirely programmed by filmmakers themselves and is held each year in Utah at the same time as the Sundance festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to be going to Slamdance,\u201d said Cambron, a graduate of Wright State\u2019s motion pictures program. \u201cIt is quite a feat for a first-time filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>PARK<\/em> is the story of a girl living in a trailer park, drifting through life, beginning sexual explorations and stealing her dad\u2019s painkiller medication. Her budding relationship with an older woman begins to give her stability, but her hunger for a way out of the trailer park continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote a story about a young woman struggling with poverty, drugs and her sexuality because I wanted to honestly portray the complexity and the coldness of beginning adulthood,\u201d said Cambron<\/p>\n<p>Wright State motion pictures professor Julia Reichert said that <em>PARK<\/em> feels more like a \u201cslice-of-life documentary\u201d than a fictional piece. She also praised Cambron\u2019s unique choice of casting a non-actor in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>Cambron\u2019s success is even more important given that she is a female director, Reichert said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery few women from our part of the world grow up believing they could be a filmmaker . . . a director, a cinematographer, a lighting designer,\u201d said Reichert. \u00a0\u201cThere are lots of reasons for that, but the fact is that the world of filmmaking is heavily male-dominated and the number of women entering the field is really small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiz has overcome the odds,\u201d said Reichert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARK is the story of a girl living in a trailer park and drifting through life. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/20\/alumna%e2%80%99s-trailer-park-film-to-screen-at-slamdance\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":10385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,4299,725,747,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-profile","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45067,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/45067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}