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geoffrey gilmore

February 28 • 8pm
Tickets: $10 - $30 / purchase tickets
FSU Student Life Cinema / see a map
Parking: Reserved lots near venue on FSU campus

Last year, Sundance Film Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore brought a movie to Seven Days of Opening Nights. As the lights went down, no one in the sold-out audience knew what to expect. What they got was a total cinematic treat, a months-in-advance preview screening of Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, a film that prompted the New York Daily News to ask (and answer) the question, “Best movie so far this year? Hands down.”

This year, Gilmore will do it again. As director of the hugely influential Sundance Film Festival for the past 19 years, he exerts an unparalleled influence on American independent cinema – almost every American independent movie that crosses into the mainstream got its start at Sundance. The festival has become so entrenched in our culture that both the festival and Gilmore were lampooned in an episode of The Simpsons.

Gilmore is on faculty at the FSU Film School, an appointment announced at last year’s Seven Days screening.

Best of all, he picks really good movies.

Presented in conjunction with the FSU Film School.

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Democrat

 

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