News Release
June 2004

SouthSide Film Festival to screen videos produced by Moravian art students

(Bethlehem, Pa.)—Three feature video presentations produced by two Moravian College art students and a faculty member have been chosen for screening during the first annual SouthSide Film Festival 2004: The Prequel. The festival runs from Thursday, June 17 through Sunday, June 20.

Videos produced by Moravian College art majors Ashley Garrett ’06 (Bangor, Pa.), and Joshua Schray ’04, (Catasaqua, Pa.) and Dr. Krista Steinke, assistant professor of art, will be presented at various times throughout the four-day film festival.

Garrett produced a three-minute video titled, “ny | dream,” which will be featured on Saturday, June 19 at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 20 at 12 noon in the Whitaker Lab Auditorium at Lehigh University. Schray’s eight-minute video, “Graffiti: An Urban Art” will be playing twice on Saturday, June 19 at 3:30 p.m. at the Whitaker Lab Auditorium and again at 5:20 p.m. at Touchstone Theatre. Steinke’s piece, titled “American Car Wash,” is a three-minute video which will be screened Saturday, June 19 at 2:30 p.m. at the Whitaker Lab Auditorium.

All of the videos will be screened during the “Night of Short Films” on Thursday, June 17 at 7 p.m. at the Goosey Gander II in South Bethlehem. Admission is free of charge.

The SouthSide Film Festival was established earlier this year to promote and celebrate the efforts of independent filmmakers of South Bethlehem and its surrounding areas. For ticket information and additional information about the SouthSide Film Festival and a full schedule of events, visit the website: http://www.southsidefilmfestival.com.