{"id":17104,"date":"2018-03-30T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=17104"},"modified":"2018-03-30T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:59:35","slug":"black-maria-film-festival-tour-stops-at-east-stroudsburg-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/black-maria-film-festival-tour-stops-at-east-stroudsburg-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Maria Film Festival Tour Stops at East Stroudsburg University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University will host a screening of the Black Maria Film Festival Tour on Thursday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in the Dale Snow Theatre of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bmari18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17113\" \/>Jane Steuerwald, festival director, will host the screening which features a collection of works chosen to tour in the Festival\u2019s 37<sup>th<\/sup> season including animation, documentary and narrative shorts. The selection for this year\u2019s program at East Stroudsburg University includes films from Italy, Spain, Canada, and the Unites States.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1981, the Black Maria Film Festival celebrates and preserves the diversity, invention, and vitality of the short film by showcasing works of independent filmmakers from around the world. This season submissions to the juried competition came from every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>To bring these independent films to a wider audience, the Festival travels to museums, cinemas, cultural centers, colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. This is Black Maria\u2019s second visit to ESU.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival is a tribute to Thomas Edison\u2019s development of the motion picture at his West Orange, N.J. laboratory, dubbed the \u201cBlack Maria\u201d film studio, the first in the world, and is a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, an independent, non-profit, organization.<\/p>\n<p>The program, sponsored by Office of the Provost, is open to the public at no cost.\u00a0 No tickets are required.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the presentation, please email <a href=\"mailto:esuarts@esu.edu\">esuarts@esu.edu<\/a> or call the Fine and Performing Arts Events line at 570-422-3483.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU will host a screening of the Black Maria Film Festival Tour on Thursday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in the Dale Snow Theatre of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17115,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions\/17115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}