Date: 28 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 7, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Speaker: Mr. Andrew Hevia (Co-producer of Moonlight)
Chair: Prof. Tan Jia (CUHK)
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/Jk4dDajQawBeskY22
Before the three time Academy Award winning film Moonlight stunned the world at this year’s Oscars, Director Barry Jenkins had only one other feature to his name: a 13,000 dollar film called Medicine for Melancholy. How did he get from a little seen (but beloved) movie made in San Francisco to a film widely hailed as a “groundbreaking masterpiece” filmed in Liberty City, the neighborhood where Jenkins grew up? The answer involves a scrappy, DIY Miami set film festival called Borscht and a strange, meditative short film called Chlorophyl produced by Andrew Hevia. See the film and learn the unreported behind the scenes stories behind its production and how that led to one of the most talked about feature films in decades.
Chlorophyl: A meditative short film about a day in the life of a young woman set in contemporary Miami. Directed by future Academy award winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins, the short is lyrical examination of listless heartbreak. With striking cinematography by David Bornfriend, the film features non actors and music by Million Young.
About Andrew Hevia
Andrew Hevia is a Cuban American film producer from Miami, Florida. He produced the groundbreaking, three time Academy Award winning film MOONLIGHT, whose stunning Oscar night upset was seen and cheered around the world. The film was named Best Drama at the Golden Globes and won over 100 different awards from critics, festivals and special interest groups across the globe. With a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, MOONLIGHT was named to over 130 top ten lists and has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by too many critics to name.
Andrew is a co-founder of Borscht Corp, the non-profit film collective behind the Borscht Film Festival, which was named one of “the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by Moviemaker and called “the weirdest film festival on the planet” by Indiewire. He has produced numerous short films including CHLOROPHYL for Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins. He produced WHEN WE LIVED IN MIAMI, a short film written and directed by Amy Seimetz and was a producer on her debut feature SUN DON’T SHINE in 2012. He has produced experimental theater with the MacArthur Genius and Academy Award winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and moonlights as a documentary filmmaker when time allows.
He is a graduate of New World School of the Arts and the Film School at Florida State University. He holds a Master’s Degree in Media Entrepreneurship from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and was a Fulbright Fellow to Hong Kong, where he gave up 31 years of vegetarianism upon discovering seafood dim sum.
Conducted in English.
All are welcome. Registration is required by 26 March 2017.
Co-organized by MA in Visual Culture Studies, and Centre for Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau