Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Visits Amity High

From Region 5 Schools: Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Karyl Evans will offer a workshopnext week to Amity Regional High School’s students in Journalism and Visual and Performing Arts. She will share her insights about the creative and practice aspects of film-making.

Karyl Evans’ documentary and video work has appeared on network and public television. She has won 6 Emmy Awards for her documentary projects, among them Letter from Italy, 1944: A New American Oratorio (2016); Creating the Peabody's Torosaurus: Dinosaur Science, Dinosaur Art (2007); and African Americans in Connecticut: Civil War to Civil Rights (2000). Other subjects she has dealt with in her documentary work include the life and work of the successful female landscape artist, Beatrix Farrand, and the history of the Grove Street Cemetery.

Ms. Evans has also taught at Southern Connecticut State University and Yale University. During her presentation to students she will discuss the journey of film-making from conception through planning, research, filming, and post-production, using selected clips from her work. The event will be hosted by Amity librarians, Robert Musco and Victoria Hulse, and is made possible by the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation. More information about the Foundation’s mission of bringing professionals in the arts to work with young people can be found at www.jamiehulleyartsfund.org . This event is not open to the public.

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