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| Bryan Friia Cinema Director seecinema@umd.edu |
My name is Bryan Friia, and my position in SEE is the Cinema Director. In this role, I am responsible for coming up with ideas for movies to screen on campus. The majority of the time, these events take the form of Free Monthly Movies that are normally films that have just finished up in theaters or are just coming out for home release. Due to the popularity of these titles, we try and always screen them on multiple days so that we can accommodate everyone’s busy schedules.
In addition to these regular movie screenings, we also try and provide other events throughout the semester. In the past we have helped coordinate outdoor movies on the mall, advanced screenings of films before they are in theaters, and marathons of popular movie sagas. We have shown popular titles like Flight and Pitch Perfect before they were in theaters, and we have also had Harry Potter and Batman movie marathons following the conclusion of each series. This semester we are starting things off with an Oscar Series. This will consist of three films that are in the running for Academy Awards. The movies will be screened each week leading up to the awards ceremony. The idea is to give students the opportunity to see movies that they may have missed or would like to see again free of charge in Hoff Theater.
We had initially planned on showing Argo, The Master, and Lincoln for this event. As you may have seen, however, Lincoln has been replaced by Moonrise Kingdom. Due to the fact that we book these movies before they are available on DVD, we are still dependent on the requests of the movie’s production company. In this case, Lincoln is being held in theaters longer than it was initially planned. Therefore, it will not be available for us to screen as previously scheduled. We will no be showing Argo on Feb. 6th, The Master on Feb. 13th, and Moonrise Kingdom on Feb. 20th. All movies will be shown at 7pm in the Hoff Theater.
We are still very excited about this event and all of our SEE events that are coming up in the spring semester. If you are interested in staying in the loop on all of our events please check out our website at http://www.see.umd.edu/. Additionally, if you have any cinema related questions, feel free to email me at seecinema@umd.edu.
