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

Directed & Produced by Professor Tom Scholte

– Where do you hide when the “elephant in the room” starts to charge?

How often do we decide which facts the people close to us “need to know?” How often do we tell ourselves that these omissions and half-truths are for “their own good?”  And how often do we ask ourselves who it is we are really protecting?  All of these questions are on the table is this year’s penetrating and dramatic Naked Cinema installment centered on three couples; one bringing the unhealed scars and unquenched desires of the past to their impending nuptials, another at a crossroads concerning the dark past of a co-dependent little sister, and a third grappling with the after effects of the miscarriage of an unplanned pregnancy.  Intimate performances of deep sincerity make this feature-length drama a powerful study of the fears and frailties inside us all.

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.

Directed by Professor Tom Scholte
Created in collaboration with BFA Acting, BFA Film Production, Film Studies students from the Department of Theatre and Film:

Natalie Backerman, Christian Diaz, Louise Domenach, Olivia Lang, Louis Lin, Ebby Mohseni, Lisa Olgina, Linnea Ritland, Daria Rusu-Banu, Dalia Shalabi, Shona Struthers, Heidi Damayo, Sabrina Vellani, Jed Weiss, Aidan Wright.

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 Naked Cinema IV Press Release

Venue

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St.

Performance

January 29, 2018, 7:30pm.

Tickets

Please note: this film is not yet rated, and as such we are required to limit admission to those who are 19 years or older.

Single: $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.