Flicker Film Festival 2007

Welcome to the official Northwestern University Flicker Film Festival 2007 Website. Flicker Film Festival has been celebrating the cinematic achievements of students across the nation and globe for 11 years running and our aim has always been to share, promote and inspire filmmaking among students and more.

Click here to view this year's official selections!

Come to this year's festival :

Friday, April 20th @ 6pm Fisk Hall

Saturday, April 21th @ 6pm Fisk Hall

Sunday, April 22nd @ 2pm Harris Hall

The festival this year is being held in Fisk and Harris halls on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. To locate these buildings on a campus map, please click here.

We are pleased to announce that the speaker for this year's festival will be Ross Kaufman.

Ross Kauffman is the director, producer, cinematographer and co- editor of Born into Brothels, winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Kauffman worked as a documentary film editor from 1992 - 2000. He spent three years at Valkhn Film and Video Inc., a post-production company where he worked on a wide variety of films for HBO, WNET/ THIRTEEN, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel.

In 2001, he teamed up with award winning photojournalist Zana Briski to direct and produce Born into Brothels, a feature documentary about the children of Calcutta's prostitutes. In 2002, Kauffman formed Red Light Films and was awarded grants from the Sundance Institute, the
Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts to complete the film. Prior to the Academy Awards, Born into Brothels was accepted into over 35 film festivals and has since received over 40 awards, including National Board of Review Best Documentary 2004, LA Film Critics Best Documentary 2004, and the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in 2004.

Kauffman is currently working on a variety of projects including; Rush to Judgment; FLIGHT 587, a film documenting the crash of American Airlines flight 587 into Rockaway, Queens, New York, just two months after September 11, 2001; In a Dream (executive producer),
the story of the Philadelphia mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar; and Project Kashmir (producer/cinematographer), a documentary that takes viewers into the war-zone of Kashmir and examines the conflict from an emotional and social point of view.

Past Speakers include:

Parker Posey Actress (2003)	Chazz Palminteri Actor (2004)

Rob Cordry Comedian/Actor (2005)	Craig Brewer Director, "Hustle & Flow" (2006)