THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM AT UBC PRESENTSNaked Cinema III: SHORTFALLS
CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH STUDENTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM

Directed & Produced by Professor Tom Scholte

– FINISHING SECOND CAN TEACH YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO PUT FIRST

Our contemporary obsession with competition gets the Naked Cinema treatment in this keenly observed triptych of high-impact short stories exposing the experience of being “second best” in all of its cringingly funny and, ultimately, liberating glory. An under-achieving hockey prospect shoulders the burden of his alpha-dad’s broken dreams while his sister flies completely under the radar. A beauty pageant winner and the first runner-up cling to a fragile friendship as expectations and buried resentments grow. A sexually frustrated bride-to-be begins to suspect that she is not number one in her fiancées heart and that her rival might be way to close for comfort. Laugh, cry, and find the light with these all too human almost-heroes sensitively portrayed by a talented cast of brave young actors.

Each year, students from the Department of Theatre and Film, spearheaded by award-winning Professor Tom Scholte, come together to create something especially audacious: a new feature film inspired by Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 Manifesto and stripped of all cinematic artifice.

Story and Screenplay

THTR 472 plus: Julian Aisslinger, Rehmat Babbar, Joseph Kuma-Mintah, Tiffany Lau, Winson Li, Evan Luchkow, Linnea Ritland, Natalia Rueda, Katrina Zhao.

Media Requests

Andrea Rabinovitch
Office: 604.822.3723, Cell: 604.314.3905
andrea.rabinovitch@ubc.ca

Venue

The Performance Theatre, AMS Student Nest
6133 University Boulevard, 2nd Floor
V6T 1Z1
Wayfinding: http://www.maps.ubc.ca

Performances

January 30-31, 2017

On January 30, please join us afterwards for a reception in the Lev Bukham Theatre Lounge, 3rd floor.

7:30 pm
General Admission

Tickets

Students: $10, Adult: $10
Box office: 604.822.2678, box.office@ubc.ca or www.ubctheatretickets.com

Director & PRODUCERTom Scholte

TOM SCHOLTE, BFA, MFA (UBC) Tom is a nationally recognized actor in the realms of theatre, film, and television. Among his numerous screen credits are a Genie nominated and Leo winning performance in the feature film LAST WEDDING, a Gemini winning performance on DA VINCI’S INQUEST, and a Leo winning performance in the short film EXPOSURES. On stage, he is a two time Jessie nominee who has appeared for such companies as Vancouver’s Pi Theatre, Ruby Slippers and Arts Club Theatre Company, Toronto’s Modern Times Stage Company, and Whitehorse’s Nakai Theatre. As a director he was a founding member of Neworld Theatre and is the founder and artistic director of Theatreshop. He has previously taught acting for stage and screen at the Vancouver Film School, Lyric School of Acting, and the University of British Columbia. Tom’s feature film directing debut, CRIME, received its world premiere at the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival.

In addition to his continuing artistic practice, Tom in engaged in ongoing research exploring cybernetics in the Stanislavski System of Acting and the naturalistic theatre as a modelling facility for complex adaptive social systems.  HIs publications on this work can be found in the journals Kybernetes and Constructivist Foundations.