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Snapshot
(NARRATIVE – Running Time: 28 minutes, 7 seconds)
Richard Wiebe & Andrew Lund
 Marcello has made a career taking candid photographs of other people, while himself refusing to be photographed. On the opening night of a career retrospective show, Marcello is kidnapped. What does his assailant want from him and how is this connected to his photos? Over the next 24 hours, Marcello must confront his creative legacy and its costs. Only by learning to face the people in his pictures, can he hope to escape with his life and dignity intact.
Filmmaker Profile: RICHARD WIEBE
Richard Wiebe is a graduate of UNC-Wilmington’s Film Studies department. Before studying film in North Carolina, he graduated from the University of Minnesota as a student of Philosophy and Russian. Since graduating from UNC-W in 2004, Richard has lived and worked in China for a period, contributed as a writer and editor to W.W. Norton’s film studies tutorial DVD Looking at Movies, and collaborated on Wilmington film projects, as producer and editor, with his former teachers Dave Monahan and Andrew Lund. Richard Wiebe's latest project, Finders Keepers, is edited by Wiebe and fellow Visions filmmaker Dave Monahan.
Weibe is currently working in Cyprus on a documentary film he developed that explores the unique political and cultural division of the island, and its thousands year old history, as it is mirrored in a birdwatching journey. Next year, Weibe will begin graduate work at a Film Studies program with progress towards a PhD.
Filmmaker Profile: ANDREW LUND
Andrew Lund is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College, CUNY, an Adjunct Professor in the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate Film Division of Columbia University, where he received J.D. and M.F.A. degrees. Andrew is the Executive Producer of a number of independent feature films, including Vanaja, Confess, and Arranged. He has also served as a producer on several award-winning documentaries. As a writer and director, Lund’s short films have won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, appeared on PBS, ABC and major networks in Europe and Japan, are distributed both theatrically and non-theatrically, have garnered multiple grants, and have been included in DVD compilations and film textbooks. Drawing on his extensive experience as an entertainment lawyer, Andrew consults on legal and business aspects of film, theater, television, publishing and fine arts.
Local Angles:
- Snapshot was entirely shot and edited in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- The key creative collaborators were all from North Carolina, including Andrew Lund (writer, director, producer), Glenn Pack (d.p. and producer), Dave Monahan (editor), Richard Wiebe (associate producer, editor, post-production supervisor), Barabara D’Allesandro (assistant director), Chip Hackler (assistant director), Eric Patterson (photographs, special effects), Alex Markowski (sound design) and Adam Alphin (credit sequence) among a host of other local contributors.
- Much of the crew was made up of faculty and students from the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, along with a number of local independent film professionals.
- Snapshot was the first film project to come out of the new Film Studies Department at UNC-W, and it represented the pedagogical philosophy that faculty and students would benefit from collaborating on film projects outside the classroom.
- Snapshot was supported by numerous North Carolina businesses from equipment houses like JDC and Panavision, to Port City Java and local restaurants that donated food for the shoot, and local businessmen like Donald Lashley who provided the film’s locations at no charge.
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