{"id":6680,"date":"2013-10-06T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:57","slug":"fred-marx-visits-the-ui-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"Fred Marx visits the UI this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning today, Sunday, October 6<\/strong>, through Thursday, October 10<\/strong>, the student residents at Allen Hall\/Unit One<\/strong> at the University of Illinois<\/strong> will receive several chances to get to know independent documentary producer Frederick Marx<\/strong><\/a>, a Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> native and UI graduate whose company Warrior Films<\/strong><\/a> creates media intended to inspire the humanity inside us and prioritize healthy relationships between adults and youth and, by extension, our future generations.<\/p>\n

While not overtly public events, Marx\u2019s presentations as a Guest-in-Residence at AH\/UO, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana<\/strong><\/a>, can be attended by non-students. Tonight\u2019s opening program is called \u201cMy Life as an Artist: From Champaign to Zanskar<\/strong>\u201d and begins at 7 p.m.<\/strong> in the South Rec Room<\/strong>, also the location for film screenings and additional talks. The former includes his most famous work, the award-winning HOOP DREAMS<\/strong><\/a> (Mon., Oct. 7, 7 p.m.<\/strong>) on which he worked for Chicago\u2019s Kartemquin Films<\/strong>, and his most recent, a harrowing story about young children escorted from the mountains of Tibet<\/strong> to lower India<\/strong> by Buddhist monks in order to save their dying culture in JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR<\/strong> (Weds., Oct. 9, 7 p.m.<\/strong>) featuring the Dali Lama<\/strong> and narrated by actor Richard Gere<\/strong>. Other programs include \u201cThe Necessity for Healthy Rites of Passage for Youth<\/strong>\u201d (Tues., Oct. 8, 7 p.m.<\/strong>) and \u201cLiving a Life of Purpose<\/strong>\u201d (Thurs., Oct. 10, 7 p.m.<\/strong>) rounding out the portrait of a filmmaker genuinely affecting social issues in a positive manner through his chosen life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Other titles in the Marx filmography include THE UNSPOKEN<\/strong> (1999), a rare narrative feature about a preteen healer traveling the countryside, HIGHER GOALS<\/strong> (1992), an Emmy<\/strong>-nominated PBS<\/strong> special encouraging student athletes to take the \u201cstudent\u201d aspect seriously, and BOYS TO MEN?<\/strong> (2011) and RITES OF PASSAGE<\/strong> (in production) which examine different angles of the struggles in properly mentoring kids to become effective, compassionate adults. HOOP DREAMS<\/strong>, a fall 1994 theatrical release from Fine Line Features\/New Line Cinema<\/strong>, is probably as famous for being a highly compelling character study of Chicago<\/strong> inner city youth banking on college scholarships and basketball careers as the proverbial \u201cway out of the \u2018hood\u201d as it is for being called \u201cone of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime\u201d<\/a> by the late Roger Ebert<\/strong>. At the time, many movie critics cried foul that HOOP DREAMS<\/strong> was not nominated for the Academy Award<\/strong> for Best Picture in 1995 by the default that it was a documentary.<\/p>\n

After his stay at AH\/UO is finished, Marx will introduce JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR<\/strong> one additional time on Saturday, October 12, 2 p.m.<\/strong>, at the Art Theater Co-op, 126 W. Church St.<\/strong>, Champaign<\/strong>, in a screening presented by the UI University Laboratory High School<\/strong> (a.k.a. \u201cUni High\u201d) from which he graduated in 1973. Admission is free to all the aforementioned events.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

[This is post #800 on CUBlog<\/strong>! Do well and do good, peoples.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Allen Hall\/Unit One and the University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign welcome veteran documentary producer Frederick Marx to town this week. Events include screenings of his films, JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR and HOOP DREAMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,53,13],"tags":[1135,1136,1137,1138,1140,1141,1139],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-educationclasses","category-public-events","tag-frederick-marx","tag-hoop-dreams","tag-journey-from-zanskar","tag-kartemquin-films","tag-ui-allen-hallunit-one","tag-ui-university-lab-high-school","tag-warrior-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}