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Film Festival coming to Whitworth

By: Tracy Simmons

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February 11, 2016

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The opening scene in Fight Club that represents a brain's neural network in which the thought processes are initiated by the narrator's fear impulse./Wikipedia

Whit worth University is inviting the community to its eighth annual Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival, Feb. 20-22.

Matthew Rindge

This year’s 7 p.m. showings will feature alumni filmmakers, an international film, and an evening about faith and film led by Matthew Rindge, professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University and author of two books and dozens of articles and chapters on the Bible, religion, and popular culture.

According to a press release, Rindge will discuss his second book, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream,” which is due out in April, and will introduce the festival’s final film, “Fight Club,” which is featured in his book, on Monday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre at Whitworth University.

This event is free and open to the public. For the complete 2016 film schedule, please www.whitworth.edu/oaklandfestival. For more information about Whitworth’s annual film festival, visit this site: Leonard Oakland Film Festival.

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Kimberly Burnham,PhD

8 years ago

Sounds interesting Matt.

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Riff Mattre

8 years ago

Wow. My favorite film of the twentieth century! Looking forward to it, Matt!

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