Published: January 23, 2018
UT to Host Tournées French Film Festival Jan. 26-Feb. 25
The Tournées French Film Festival is once again coming to The University of Tampa, with screenings of six French-produced films from Jan. 26-Feb. 25. All screenings are free and open to the public, and will take place in either Falk Theatre, located at 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., or Reeves Theater, located on the second floor of the Vaughn Center. Each screening will feature a discussion with filmmakers, cultural critics, historians, artists and other experts.
The Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE (French-American Cultural Exchange) Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy of the United States, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses.
According to organizer Aaron Walker, assistant professor in Department of Film, Animation and New Media, the films chosen for screening at UT engage with culturally important moments and intersections in French and global society, with an emphasis on films directed by women or that strongly feature women-led narratives.
The first film, La Belle Saison, for instance, is about the rise of feminism in France in the 1970s. Things to Come is written and directed by a strong, emerging French auteur, Mia Hanson-Love. As I Open My Eyes is the first feature directed by Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid. And the final film of the festival, Fatima, concerns the challenges of gender and integration in France.
The full schedule is as follows:
- Friday, Jan. 26:La Belle Saison, Falk Theatre, 7 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 2:Things to Come, Vaughn Center, second floor, Reeves Theater, 2 p.m.
- Thursday, Feb. 8:The Great Man, Vaughn Center, second floor, Reeves Theater, 2 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 18:Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau's restored classic 1946 version), Falk Theatre, 2 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 23:As I Open My Eyes, Falk Theatre, 7 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 25:Fatima, Falk Theatre, 2 p.m.
The Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment
For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/fmxut or contact Walker at awalker@ut.edu or (813) 257-3976.
On Sunday, April 8, The University of Tampa’s 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series will conclude with a performance by the Philadelphia Brass, called “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life” by NPR’s Martin Goldsmith. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
The concert will have a special emphasis on American music, featuring works by Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and Frank Loesser, among others.
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
“There are a lot of stereotypes and studies that say boys aren’t as good in second language acquisition as females,” said Harrington, who worked with Assistant Professor Andrew DeMil on the research project, “Gender differences in Spanish Language Learning: Speaking Exams,” which they presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference in February and to the UT Board of Trustees March 22.
“We wanted to do a study of our own here at UT. In the previous year (DeMil) had studied reading comprehension of girls versus boys, so we wanted to study speaking this year,” said Harrington, of Maple Grove, MN. “The results were the same though. The boys aren’t any worse, if not the same, as females. They are just extremely underrepresented.”