2016 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
Closing Brunch & Festivals Awards Ceremony
Sunday, June 12th, 9:00am - 11:30am, Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom.
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$15.00 for Closing Brunch & Awards Ceremony
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Individual Event Ticket Costs:
$15.00 for Closing Brunch & Awards Ceremony
ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2016 HEAR MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.
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Featuring the
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Judith Walcutt
Judith Walcutt (Otherworld Media)
Judith Walcutt is the founder and CEO of Otherworld Media, an internationally acclaimed production company since 1981. She has been a professional in the broadcast and communications field for over thirty years. As a writer, director, and producer, she has generated hundreds of hours of programming for radio, theatre, television, and live festivals.
She began her career in theatre with an off-Broadway production of her first play at the La MaMa etc. shortly after her graduation from Bard College in 1974. She continued working in mixed media in Los Angeles, collaborating with performance artists, musicians, and dancers at the Woman’s Building, California Institute of the Arts, and at the University of Southern California where she finished her Masters degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature in 1976. In 1979, she moved to Seattle and produced her first radio play for young people at KRAB-FM, the first free-form radio station in the Northwest.
In 1985, Walcutt took her producing skills to WGBH, Boston, for “The Spider’s Web,” hosted by Julie Harris and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The weekly radio drama series for young people aired classics of American literature, and was the last of its kind for public radio. Her first large-scale production for The Web, “The Red Badge of Courage,” a collaboration with her future husband, David Ossman, became the pilot for WGBH’s “Radio Movies” in 1986 in which the team applied the techniques of on-location recording, as well as filmic sound design and musical scoring to “radio drama,” moving the art form out of its past and into its future.
Judith Walcutt is the founder and CEO of Otherworld Media, an internationally acclaimed production company since 1981. She has been a professional in the broadcast and communications field for over thirty years. As a writer, director, and producer, she has generated hundreds of hours of programming for radio, theatre, television, and live festivals.
She began her career in theatre with an off-Broadway production of her first play at the La MaMa etc. shortly after her graduation from Bard College in 1974. She continued working in mixed media in Los Angeles, collaborating with performance artists, musicians, and dancers at the Woman’s Building, California Institute of the Arts, and at the University of Southern California where she finished her Masters degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature in 1976. In 1979, she moved to Seattle and produced her first radio play for young people at KRAB-FM, the first free-form radio station in the Northwest.
In 1985, Walcutt took her producing skills to WGBH, Boston, for “The Spider’s Web,” hosted by Julie Harris and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The weekly radio drama series for young people aired classics of American literature, and was the last of its kind for public radio. Her first large-scale production for The Web, “The Red Badge of Courage,” a collaboration with her future husband, David Ossman, became the pilot for WGBH’s “Radio Movies” in 1986 in which the team applied the techniques of on-location recording, as well as filmic sound design and musical scoring to “radio drama,” moving the art form out of its past and into its future.
Click here to read more about the The Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre.
Click here to read more about Judith Walcutt, the 2016 winner.
Click here to read more about Judith Walcutt, the 2016 winner.
2016 HEAR Now Festival Awards
Festival Awards
Who won this year's Audience Favorite from the programs presented by the NATF Playhouse?
Who won this year's Audience Favorite from the programs presented by the NATF Playhouse?
Workshop 101 - Final Podcast - LIVE
Have you been following the Workshop 101 podcasts throughout the Festival?
This is your chance find out what they have been producing in their classes at Simpson House!!
Have you been following the Workshop 101 podcasts throughout the Festival?
This is your chance find out what they have been producing in their classes at Simpson House!!
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Silence
A film about the quiet spaces in the world.
As part of the closing festivities HEAR Now will present the 3 minute trailer from this film and offer a 'meditation' on silence and listening presented by Steve Donofrio.
For those whose flights are later in the day, the Festival will play the entire 83 minute film beginning immediately after the brunch in the Holiday Inn Ballroom.
Special thanks to Harvest Films & Farpoint Recordings
A film about the quiet spaces in the world.
As part of the closing festivities HEAR Now will present the 3 minute trailer from this film and offer a 'meditation' on silence and listening presented by Steve Donofrio.
For those whose flights are later in the day, the Festival will play the entire 83 minute film beginning immediately after the brunch in the Holiday Inn Ballroom.
Special thanks to Harvest Films & Farpoint Recordings
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Prolific Cork-based documentarian Pat Collins possesses a restless curiosity, coupled with a poetic eye for the small moments – something that informs this feature debut, of sorts. We say 'of sorts' because Silence boldly defies categorisation at every turn. The film has been described as both meditation and odyssey, tracing the psycho-geographical journey undertaken by an enigmatic soundman (writer and co-scenarist Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde) from his adopted city of Berlin to his native Donegal. His undertaking is to aurally document landscapes free from man-made noise – a journey that ultimately leads our protagonist inwards, as he finds himself drawn to his childhood home.
Navigating a unique path betwixt fiction and documentary, this film is by turns haunting and utterly beguiling; reference points might include Kiarostami, Apichatpong and Terrence Malick. Ultimately, however, this is unlike anything else you’ll see this year – a deeply immersive experience from a major Irish filmmaker (Courtesy of Irish Film Institute)
Navigating a unique path betwixt fiction and documentary, this film is by turns haunting and utterly beguiling; reference points might include Kiarostami, Apichatpong and Terrence Malick. Ultimately, however, this is unlike anything else you’ll see this year – a deeply immersive experience from a major Irish filmmaker (Courtesy of Irish Film Institute)
