“Filming in North Carolina: An Alternative to Hollywood”
Dale Pollock
Museum of the Albemarle will
host Dale Pollock, Professor of Cinema Studies and Producing at the University
of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem
on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Gaither Auditorium. Mr.
Pollock will present “Filming in North Carolina: An
Alternative to Hollywood”. His topic will focus around movies such as The Guardian, Nights in Rodanthe,
Brainstorm, Lucky Life, Mississippi Damned,
and Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers
that were filmed in Northeastern North Carolina and why North Carolina has become a place of
interest to producers.
Mr. Pollock is currently a
Professor of Cinema Studies and Producing at the University of North Carolina
School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
He previously served as Dean of the School
of Filmmaking for eight
years. Mr. Pollock has produced 13
feature films, including A Midnight
Clear, Set It Off, Mrs. Winterbourn, and Blaze. Films he has produced were nominated for four Academy
Awards, and starred actors such as Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine, Denzel
Washington, Queen Latifah, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kathleen Turner. Mr. Pollock
authored Skywalking: The Life and Films
of George Lucas, currently in its third edition and fourth printing. In
2002, Mr. Pollock started and ran the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC.
You may like to take a moment and
visit the Museum’s newest exhibit Real to
Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind. The exhibit will showcase authentic
memorabilia – costumes, screen tests, scene props, a script, Vivien Leigh’s
Academy Award, and many other items from the James Tumblin Collection. Exhibit admission is required to visit Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind.
Free
Family Program
For
More Information Call 252-335-1453
The Museum of the Albemarle
is located at 501 S. Water Street,
Elizabeth City, NC.
(252)335-1453. www.museumofthealbemarle.com. Find us on Facebook! Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays, Mondays and
State Holidays. Serving Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates,
Hertford, Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington
counties, the Museum is the northeast regional history museum of the North
Carolina Division of State History Museums within the N.C. Department of
Cultural Resources, the state agency with the mission to enrich lives and
communities and the vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build
North Carolina’s social, cultural and economic future. Information is available
24/7 at www.ncculture.com.
About The North Carolina Department of Cultural ResourcesThe North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources (NCDCR) is the state agency with a vision to be the leader
in using the state’s cultural resources to build the social, cultural and
economic future of North Carolina.
Led by Secretary Susan W. Kluttz, NCDCR’s mission to enrich lives and
communities creates opportunities to experience excellence in the arts, history
and libraries in North Carolina
that will spark creativity, stimulate learning, preserve the state’s history
and promote the creative economy. NCDCR was the first state organization in the
nation to include all agencies for arts and culture under one umbrella.
Through arts efforts led by the N.C. Arts Council, the N.C.
Symphony and the N.C. Museum of Art; NCDCR offers the opportunity for enriching
arts education for young and old alike and economic stimulus engines for our
state’s communities. NCDCR’s Divisions of State Archives, Historical Resources,
State Historic Sites and State
History Museums
preserve, document and interpret North
Carolina’s rich cultural heritage. NCDCR’s State
Library of North Carolina is the principal library of state government and
builds the capacity of all libraries in our state; developing and supporting
access to traditional and online collections such as genealogy and resources
for the blind and physically handicapped.
NCDCR annually serves more than 19 million people through
its 27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, the nation’s
first state-supported Symphony Orchestra, the State Library, the N.C. Arts
Council and the State Archives. NCDCR champions our state’s creative industry
that accounts for more than 300,000 jobs and generates nearly $18.5 billion in
revenues. For more information, please call (919) 807-7300 or visit www.ncdcr.gov.
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