{"id":98795,"date":"2020-12-03T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=98795"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:30:56","slug":"annual-doc-night-will-showcase-new-films-by-wright-state-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/03\/annual-doc-night-will-showcase-new-films-by-wright-state-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Doc Night will showcase new films by Wright State students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motion Pictures students in Wright State University&#8217;s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures will premiere short documentary films during the annual Doc Night.<\/p>\n<p>Doc Night takes place on Friday, Dec. 4, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., with an encore showing on Thursday, Dec. 10, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The films will be streamed on Twitch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/wsudocnight2020\">twitch.tv\/wsudocnight2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The screenings are free and donations will be accepted. More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.me\/e\/1PZY4CbDF\">Doc Night Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doc Night will feature 17 documentary films screened over two hours with an intermission. A question-and-answer session with the students will be held after the screening.<\/p>\n<p>Doc Night showcases the best short student documentaries from the Documentary Semester of the junior year. Students spend an entire semester learning the artform and producing different types of documentaries in the process. They learn important skills that help train them to become future filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the documentaries screened at previous Doc Nights have played at film festivals around the country, and past Doc Night filmmakers have gone on to win Emmy and Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures\/bachelor-of-arts-or-bachelor-of-fine-arts-in-motion-pictures\">Motion Pictures<\/a> juniors in the Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures Department have spent the past semester creating a collection of short documentary films exploring stories that make an impact in our community and beyond,&#8221; said Kyle Wilkinson, visiting assistant professor in the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures. Wilkinson is the lead advisor and instructor for the film projects and is a graduate of Wright State\u2019s Motion Pictures program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese short films often tell deeply human stories about people in our community that many of us may have encountered, or whose amazing stories come as a complete surprise,&#8221; said Joe Deer, chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures\">Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures<\/a>. &#8220;The evening offers a wide range of voices \u2014 from deeply personal and thought-provoking to humorous and quirky, and they\u2019re always very well-crafted.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98819\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/03\/annual-doc-night-will-showcase-new-films-by-wright-state-students\/doc-night-still2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98819\" class=\"size-large wp-image-98819\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2020\/12\/Doc-Night-Still2-508x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Warrior Cats: Multi-Animator Projects,&#8221; directed by Motion Pictures major Quinn Hart, examines the Multi-Animator Community, an online community that has been an influential force in the careers of many young artists.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Doc Night Films<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ACT 1<br \/>\n<\/strong>Brendan Borden: &#8220;Miss Tina&#8221; (Portrait Doc)<br \/>\nMarvin Watts: &#8220;The Lab&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nLeanna Roberts: &#8220;Aquarterghost&#8221; (Sound Doc)<br \/>\nLindsey Kibler: &#8220;To Be a Creator&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nBen Wical: &#8220;Go Time&#8221; (Sound Doc)<br \/>\nBen Hollinger: &#8220;Earn It&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nDerek Szklany: &#8220;Kingdom Come&#8221; (Research Doc)<br \/>\nChris Wagner-Lee: &#8220;One Sudden Moment&#8221; (Sound Doc)<br \/>\nAdam McVay: &#8220;The Law of Change&#8221; (Portrait Doc)<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACT 2<br \/>\n<\/strong>Nathan Schubert: &#8220;The Theatre Experience&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nJordana Brewer-Johnson: &#8220;Silenced by Covid&#8221; (Sound Doc)<br \/>\nQuinn Hart: &#8220;Warrior Cats: Multi Animator Community&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nJoey Larkin: &#8220;Webstar&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nNoah Howard: &#8220;Filet of Dreams&#8221; (Sound Doc)<br \/>\nJeff Levack: &#8220;To Steal an American Election&#8221; (Final Doc)<br \/>\nHarris Norton: &#8220;Amanda&#8221; (Portrait Doc)<br \/>\nChris Bollinger: &#8220;Remembering Old Times&#8221; (Portrait Doc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduled for Dec. 4 and 10 on Twitch, Doc Night will feature 17 short documentaries produced by juniors in the Motion Pictures Program. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/03\/annual-doc-night-will-showcase-new-films-by-wright-state-students\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":98811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2037,4859,725,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-arts-scene","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98795","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98795"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98863,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98795\/revisions\/98863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}