Join us for a Professional Directions with Stewart Thorndike, visiting filmmaker / former PMA visiting assistant professor, on Wednesday, Nov. 15th in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. A Professional Directions Q&A co-hosted by DKA will happen from 4:30pm - 5:15pm. A free screening of her new horror film BAD THINGS (87 mins) will follow at 7:30 p.m.
BAD THINGS is a queer feminist horror film. The film stars Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, and Molly Ringwald. It was shot in Ithaca, NY. It premiered in competition at The Tribeca Film Festival this summer.
Stewart Thorndike is a writer and director who makes feminist genre films. Stewart’s second feature film, BAD THINGS, premiered in competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Her debut feature, LYLE, is a queer horror film that premiered in 2014 at Outfest and starred Gaby Hoffmann who won the best actress award. Indiewire listed Stewart as one of ten LGBTQ creators on the rise in 2023. Stewart earned her MFA at NYU and is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society’s Women Filmmaker Fellowship for women in genre.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Performing and Media Arts.
Free and open to the public.
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