DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING FILMS EXTENDED TO MARCH 5TH
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING FILMS EXTENDED TO MARCH 5TH
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Lowell Film Festival for Future Filmmakers
Mercédès Baillargeon is associate professor of French and Francophone Studies and the coordinator of the Film Studies minor at UMass Lowell. Her research focuses on Québec cinema, gender and media studies, women's literature, and first-person narrative.
Prior to joining UMass Lowell, she was associate professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland.
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Lowell Film Festival for Future Filmmakers
Dan Frank is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film & TV Production at Endicott College. He has produced and directed television series, narrative and documentary films, commercials, marketing, and educational programs. His work has aired on PBS, Discovery, FOX, Amazon, HGTV, DIY, FX, TLC, NBC Universal, and New England Sports Network,
Films that he's produced or directed have screened at numerous film festivals, including IFFBoston, Woodstock, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Sarajevo, New Hampshire, Slamdance, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Virginia, Ann Arbor, New Orleans, and Big Sky.
Founding Sponsor, Lowell Film Festival for Future Filmmakers
Glenn Morgan, is the founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Revenue Officer of Research for Creative Insights, a full service ad agency serving destination, government, energy, and higher education clients.
Glenn has a track record of changing organizations and communities for the better, including his experience with the turn around and revitalization of businesses, as a lead investor and as a financial advisor. He brings this experience to the Lowell Film Festival where he is responsible for and contributes to audience and student filmmaker research, creative insights, brand position, website design and development, and funding. Without his contributions, LFF would not be growing and vital film festival.
Glenn received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He returned to UML to create a business plan student competition at University of Massachusetts He received an MA from the MIT Sloan School.
Co-Director, Lowell Film Festival for Future Filmmakers
Tyler Theus is a Visiting Lecturer and the Instructor for the Lowell Film Festival Course at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
Theus is a film scholar working in the areas of post-war art cinema and contemporary film aesthetics. Theus received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Film Studies at Georgia State University, and an MA and PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.
His dissertation focused on contemporary forms of cinematic realism. He has written and presented on slow cinema, psychoanalysis, realist film theory and the work of David Lynch. His current project is on the persistence of art cinema in the 21st Century.
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