Microcinema International screening and lecture at UTSA Downtown
Posted by ben on 28 Jan 2008 at 11:54 am | Tagged as: upcoming events
This is an event being organized by UTSA New Media Director Leslie Raymond. Press release:
who: Patrick Kwaitowski, Microcinema International Co-Founder, CEO
what: a lecture and screening of moving image art from Microcinema International
when: Monday February 11, 2008, 7 – 9pm
where: UTSA Buena Vista Theater (downtown campus)contact: Leslie Raymond; ;
Co-founder and CEO Patrtick Kwaitowski will present a selection of experimental films and videos from the Microcinema cannon, discuss how the company began, evolved, and is now exploring the possibilities of content delivery through new technologies such as the web and mobile telephones.
Founded in 1996, Microcinema International is a leading international rights manager, exhibitor, and specialty markets distributor of the “moving image arts.” Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially relevant nature.
The Microcinema International mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. This mission is realized through exhibition-based events, web-based platforms, educational outreach, modern marketing techniques, and digital and physical distribution.
Through the Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide. New delivery platforms such as mobile TV, video on demand, podcasting, and mobile telephony are also used to reach new audiences around the globe.
Patrick is being brought to San Antonio by the UTSA New Media program as one of a growing series of guest speakers that includes Dr. Tish Stringer, who’s presentation “Guerilla Cinema,” in November 2007, addressed the history of Indy Media. The next guest is Andrea Grover, founder and artistic director of the Houston’s renowned Aurora Picture Show, who will appear on Monday March 3, 2008.