Paul Harrill, self-reliant filmmaker extraordinaire, will be visiting the W&M campus from February 23-24. Paul will serve as a judge for the 24 Speed contest and will kick off the CANS film festival screening, with a screening of his own films, at the Kimball Theatre on Saturday February 24 at 4PM. 
About Paul Harrill
Paul Harrill is a Southern filmmaker. A native of Knoxville,Tennessee, Mr. Harrill received his Master of Fine Arts in Film & Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His short films include Gina, An Actress Age, 29, which follows a budding actress in Knoxville who is hired to bust a union-organizing effort. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. Later festival screenings included Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films, among others.
Brief Encounter with Tibetan Monks, a documentary, was included in Caveh Zahedi & Jay Rosenblatt’s 9/11-themed anthology, Underground Zero. The anthology screened at over forty festival venues and was awarded a Special Citation by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle in 2002. On its own, Brief Encounter screened on Cinemax on the one year anniversary of September 11.
Mr. Harrill has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, and a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York and The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
He currently resides in Southwest Virginia where has taught courses in Digital Film/Video Production at Virginia Tech since August 2006.
Self-Reliant Film (http://www.selfreliantfilm.com), Paul’s weblog, is devoted to the principles and practice of do-it-yourself filmmaking. The site receives over 50,000 hits monthly.
