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Saturday, March 24 from 4-5pm
The Hamptons International Film Festival presents
Film MasterClass on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Led by James Shapiro
Learn the art of filmmaking from Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro who will compare select scenes from Baz Lurhmann’s 1996 Romeo and Juliet to Franco Zefferelli’s version from 1968. The instructor will cover filmmaking and directing techniques including camera placement and movement, blocking, lighting, acting and editing. Learn from a master and then join the live production that evening at Guild Hall.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, James Shapiro studied at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He is currently Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. In 2011 James Shapiro was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He the author of multiple books on Shakespeare including Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare (1991); Shakespeare and the Jews (1996); 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005), Samuel Johnson Prize for the best non-fiction book published in Britain Contested Will (2010), Theater Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award; and The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 (2015), James Tait Black Prize and the Sheridan Morley Prize. His 3-hour documentary on late Shakespeare--"The King and the Playwright"--aired on BBC4 in 2012 and his "The Mysterious Mr. Webster" on BBC2 in 2014. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is currently the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Authors Guild. In 2017 he was granted a Public Scholar Award by the NEH to write a book on Shakespeare in America.
Tickets $25 / $23 Members of Guild Hall or HIFF
Supported in part by The Hearst Foundation and Forever Bungalows. The 2018 Theater Season is sponsored in part through the generosity of Barbara Slifka. The John Drew Theater in the Dina Merrill Pavilion at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, New York 11937, 631.324.0806; GuildHall.org
