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Rare is the opportunity to sit with serious, talented peers discussing what you care about most: your work, the work of great authors and filmmakers and the very substance of art, the human struggle to know himself and be free. This summer, spend seven days doing just that.
Join us as we examine topics at the heart of liberty and narrative art, including:
- The genre of dystopian literature and The Handmaid's Tale.
- Why ideological art is almost always bad art (i.e., propaganda), and yet how art can successfully communicate important ideas.
- How economists and storytellers are not as different as you might think
- The question of copyrights, intellectual property, and who owns art
- Pop-culture and its relation to philosophy and social trends
In addition to these topics, we'll hear from a variety of industry professionals who will give career advice and answer questions about their work. Speakers include producer Tim Minear (Firefly, Dollhouse), who will screen and discuss some of his projects; scriptwriter Paul Guay (Liar, Liar) who will run a workshop on screenwriting where he will critique a participant's script; and filmmaker Chandler Tuttle (2081), who will talk about his film based on Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron." Lectures will be complemented by discussion groups and screenings of films, such as The Lives of Others and Brazil. To end the week, we will screen student films and vote for the winner of this year's Baldy Award.
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