Faith & Film Class taught by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
and LA Times Film Critic, Kenneth Turan
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, professor emerita, Claremont School of Theology; director of WIFF, co-director of the Center of Process Studies, Ecumenical Prize jurist, Montreal Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival.
Kenneth Turan will be the banquet speaker January 14 and also teach the Faith & Film class that day.
The Faith & Film class that accompanies the festival teaches film analysis and the theological interpretation of films. The class also serves as a jury and selects recipients (feature and short film categories) of the Whitehead Award. The class fee ($250/$300) includes access to all films.
The class fulfills several purposes: 1) to increase our ability to understand the artistic merits in film; 2) to explore ways of utilizing films to probe issues of faith; 3) to serve as a jury for the 10th Annual Whitehead International Film Festival, deciding which of the ten feature films best meets the criteria of “Celebrating Films that Promote the Common Good.”
Because the class functions as a jury for the festival, it is necessary that the class have a private screening of the final film in order to include it in our deliberations. We will then use this viewing as background for the first day’s discussion.