This Week!
Please Join Us Tuesday and Thursday:

The Art of Directing

Curated Shorts, Talk, and Reception with Adam Piron

6:30 pm | Tuesday, April 25 | Lawrence Hall 177

Gush

Screening and Q&A with Adam Piron

6:30 pm | Thursday, April 27 | Lawrence Hall 115

All events free and open to the community

How can film festivals and community building
amplify new filmmaking voices?

Join Cinema Studies and Adam Piron for a series of screenings, talks, and receptions
to learn how Piron’s multifaceted work as a director, programmer, and community builder
supports Indigenous filmmakers as they experiment with and
expand the boundaries of the moving image.

Adam Piron is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and is Mohawk.
Director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program | Member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team | Cofounder of COUSIN Film Collective | Filmmaker | Writer

The Art of Directing

Curated Shorts and Talk
with Adam Piron

6:30 pm
Tuesday, April 25
Lawrence Hall 177
Free and open to the community

Join Cinema Studies and Adam Piron for a night of screenings and discussion about his multifaceted career as a filmmaker, writer, curator, and community builder. 

We’ll screen Piron’s short documentary, Halpate (2021), and hear about his work as a member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team and as director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. Together, we’ll learn how Piron’s curation of film festivals and community building is amplifying new filmmakers’ voices.

Piron’s films have screened in ESPN’s 30 for 30, The New Yorker’s Documentary showcase, MoMA Doc Fortnight, MOCA Los Angeles, True/False Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and various other festivals and programs. In Halpate, Piron profiles members of the Seminole Tribe, who have been publicly wrestling alligators for over a century—risking life and limb to improve the lives of the wrestlers and their people.

Reception and mingling after the talk

HALPATE | 2021 | 14 MIN
BY ADAM PIRON AND ADAM KHALIL

Gush

Screening and Q&A
with Adam Piron

6:30 pm
Thursday, April 27
Lawrence Hall 115
Free and open to the community

Join Cinema Studies for a screening of Fox Maxy’s GUSH (2023) and a discussion with Adam Piron.

GUSH | 2023 | 71 MIN
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY FOX MAXY

An embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy. 

Adam Piron is a filmmaker, writer, and member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team. He is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and is Mohawk. He is also the Director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program where he oversees the organization’s investment in Indigenous filmmakers globally. He is also a filmmaker and co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of the moving image. His films have screened in ESPN’s 30 for 30, The New Yorker’s Documentary showcase, MoMA Doc Fortnight, MOCA Los Angeles, True/False Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and various other festivals and programs.