{"id":2460,"date":"2017-12-13T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:43:38","slug":"anthropology-alumnas-student-film-project-selected-for-competition-at-los-angeles-cinefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/12\/13\/anthropology-alumnas-student-film-project-selected-for-competition-at-los-angeles-cinefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology alumna&#8217;s student film project selected for competition at Los Angeles CineFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catriona Blackburn, who graduated in July 2017 with a BSc in Anthropology, has been invited to screen her film <em>Cooking Ghosts<\/em> at the 2018 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacinefest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles CineFest<\/a>. The meditative documentary portrait comprises her undergraduate film project for visual anthropology and has been selected for a semi-finalist position at the event.\u00a0The Los Angeles CineFest is an online and live festival that holds a monthly red carpet event and award ceremony organised by the award-winning filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalreviews.org\/2016\/02\/02\/interview-with-festival-director-mark-mos-los-angeles-short-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Mos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukvisualanthropology.com\/2017\/06\/19\/caremotions-2017-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual screening<\/a> of student projects in the school, <em>Cooking Ghosts<\/em> was the runner-up of the Hugh Brody prize, named after the renowned anthropologist, filmmaker and writer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/news\/index.html?view=2436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently received an honorary degree<\/a> at November&#8217;s graduation ceremony. Hugh described Catriona&#8217;s film as a &#8220;wonderful exploration of family, memory and image.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Catriona received a first-class honours degree from the University of Kent while the single parent of a young child and is now striving for a career as an academic filmmaker and visual anthropologist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cooking Ghosts<\/em> can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/amorousentropy.wordpress.com\/cooking-ghosts-final-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catriona Blackburn, who graduated in July 2017 with a BSc in Anthropology, has been invited to screen her film Cooking Ghosts at the 2018 edition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/12\/13\/anthropology-alumnas-student-film-project-selected-for-competition-at-los-angeles-cinefest\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}