In this episode, we interview the next filmmaker from our season, the director of Garbage, Jose Muniain. We talk about what inspired the project, the casting process of the film, setting a visual tone, and what Jose has been watching over quarantine.
Garbage is streaming virtually from December 14th to December 20th. There will be a live discussion on Zoom, December 17th at 7pm.
This screening is organized in conjunction with Row House Theater. Sponsored by Cause, Humanities Scholars Program, The Center for Diversity and Inclusion at CMU, The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and The Doc Salon.
Hosted by Patrick Stanny. Produced by Abby Spira.
Festival Website: https://www.cmu.edu/faces/index.html
Jose Muniain: https://make-media.net/
CMU International Festival Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmuintlfilmfest/
About the CMU International Film Festival:
Created in 2006, the Carnegie Mellon International “Faces” Film Festival is a project of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which has supported research and encouraged interest in the humanities for more than 14 years. The festival serves as a non-academic bridge to the greater Pittsburgh community, and opens its doors each year to the interests and passions of people across generations and cultures.
The “Faces” Film Festival takes place every year in the spring and presents a wide spectrum of contemporary world cinema, focusing on a different annual theme that addresses a current social issue. The festival presents 14-18 international narrative features, documentaries, and shorts each year. As a community-building event, screenings are accompanied by supplementary components such as Q & A sessions with the films’ directors and local academics, artistic performances, and receptions with local ethnic cuisine. In this way, the events are more than just film premieres; they are cultural celebrations that allow audiences to observe, discuss, and experience international cultures.
The “Faces” Film Festival prides itself in being the only international film festival in the world organized and run by university students from the numerous educational institutions across Pittsburgh, such as CMU and the University of Pittsburgh. The students build events around the festival’s rich variety of films from the U.S., Egypt, France, Australia, China, Iran, Peru, Poland, Japan, Germany, Belarus, Korea, and many other countries, hoping to reinforce Pittsburgh’s ethnic history and living culture.
