IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8-16-05 CONTACT: EXTENDED UNIVERSITY

SILVER CITY—A Cinema Appreciation class will be offered through the Western New Mexico University Extended University office.  This course will teach film appreciation giving the student tools in which to view cinema as an art form by using building blocks that constitute the language of film.  Topics to be covered are film history, the roles of the actor, director, and the director of photography.  Other topics include how the filmmaker uses the language of film to achieve his vision, and how the filmmaker uses scripting, acting, lighting, sound, and camera movement to stimulate the viewer's emotion and intellect.

Christopher Aquino will be the instructor.  Aquino has always had an interest in film.  He attended Columbia College in Chicago where he produced three short films.  He has been involved in many aspects of filmmaking.  Aquino comes to Silver City from Fort Collins, Colo. via Santa Fe.  While in Santa Fe he auditioned for a role in the John Carpenter film "Vampires".  In that film he appears as one of the lesser vampires.  In Fort Collins he owned and operated "ReelMirage," a digital movie production company.  Also, while in Fort Collins, Aquino taught two cinema appreciation classes for the Colorado State University Outreach department.

Classes will be held Sept. 7 through Oct. 12 on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the WNMU Media Services Audio Visual Room 3 located in Miller Library.  Cost for the 6 weeks class will be $35 per person.  Students may register at the Extended University office located in Bowden Hall Room 234 or call 538-6149.  Students will be given a syllabus on subject matter to be discussed and films that will be shown.

-30-