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2020 Colorado Showcase

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Presents:
​Not Pictured
Mumbai, India (16 min)
CU Denver Study Abroad Program, Summer 2019​

Sunday, February 23
2:00PM

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Stay after the showcase for our Filmmaker Talkback!
Directors' Statement
​Both Brea Ingram and Robert Ellerby went into this project with the notion of breaking stereotypes about Indian characters on the screen. They also envisioned a visual language that would reveal the vibrant and colorful India, through the eyes of a foreign visitor. Their vision was to narrate a cross-cultural story in the LGBT genre, while also making a commentary on living life through experience, versus electronics. It's a statement that connects all of us, universally as human beings.
Directors - Brea Ingram and Robert Ellerby
Producer - Jacob Kimmick 
Story By - Brea Ingram 
Writers - Tommy Clift, Robert Ellerby, Zoe Fields, Brea Ingram
Cinematography - Chris Riggs and Brittany Cook
Actor - Makayla Lange
Editing - Keric Warton 
Sound - Taylor Neumann
Color - Chris Riggs
Art and Costume - Vanessa Montes
Original music - Tommy Clift
Project Synopsis
In the summer of 2019, ten Film & Television (FITV) majors and one Music & Entertainment Studies (MEIS) major, from CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media (CAM), traveled with FITV Faculty member, Roma Sur, to Mumbai, India. During a two-week period, they collaborated with India’s top film school, Whistling Woods International (WWI), to produce a fifteen minute film. The team wrote an original bilingual short screenplay, in Bengali (an East Indian language) and in English, while in Denver.

Teams from both schools collaborated on the production of the film. They shot it over three and a half days. Tommy Clift, as MEIS major in CAM, said: “Anytime we were shooting in those three days, I took a lot of solace in being able to look up and see that I was filming in Mumbai, a city and culture I had never been to."

Keric Warton, a sophomore in the program, was the lead editor on the project. He collaborated with Vaibhav Soni, an editing major from WWI, to edit a rough cut in week two. Taylor Neumann, a junior in CAM, led location and post-sound on the project. Discussing her time abroad, Taylor said: “The Bollywood trip was an invaluable learning experience, both on a cultural level and a film level. I learned so much over two short weeks, that I don’t think I could’ve learned in any better way.”

Over the weekend, the students explored iconic destinations in Mumbai with their local cohorts: Gateway of India, the original home of Mahatma Gandhi, iconic shrines, and, of course, the famous nightlife of Mumbai. They also got a taste of the rich cuisine of India. The students came back to Denver on June 10th and worked on the post. Tommy Clift created original fusion music, borrowing influences from both cultures. He used elements of jazz, sounds of sitar and tabla, and Indian classical instruments.
When asked if he will ever go back, Chris Riggs, the colorist and cinematographer on the project says, “There is no doubt in my mind that I will make a film with the incredibly talented people I met on this trip.” Chris plans on collaborating with Sam Banerjee from WWI, on his senior thesis film at CU Denver. Zoe Fields, the writer on the project, sums up her experiences in the following words, “Lifelong friendships were established at Whistling Woods and I think I speak for every single one of us when I say that the experience will never be forgotten.”

The short film, titled ‘Not Pictured’ is now in distribution. Recently, it won the best film at Global Shorts Film Festival, India. It also won Outstanding Achievement award at the L’age d’or International Film Festival, India.

About the CU Denver - College of Arts and Media
​For driven creators and innovators committed to having a successful career doing what they love, the College of Arts & Media is the only college leveraging the influence of CU Denver in the heart of Denver’s thriving arts industry to produce graduates who are ready to inspire, lead and thrive. CAM offers degrees and programs in Film & Television, Media Forensics, Music & Entertainment, and Visual Arts.
https://artsandmedia.ucdenver.edu/

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  • 2021 Raffle Prizes & Tickets
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    • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
      • #AsianAMCovidStories
      • Duo Pandemia
      • Mastery I & II
      • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
      • Ntuj Tsim Txom
      • Mechamorphosis
      • The 3 Day Nun
      • The Loyal Betrayal
      • Voices
    • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
      • Check Box: Other
      • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
      • Safe
      • In the Spotlight
  • Sponsors / Donors
  • Submit Your Film
  • Previous Programs
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl