{"id":32,"date":"2011-05-23T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2011-05-29T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:59:12","slug":"jon-kiliks-visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/guests-to-campus\/jon-kiliks-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Kilik’s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon Kilik<\/a> is a much beloved and respected UVM alum. \u00a0One of our most successful alums to work in the film industry, Jon is an independent producer. \u00a0He has worked with such directors as Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Robert De Niro, Tim Robbins, Julian Schnabel, and Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. \u00a0Jon has been nominated many times at the academy awards and his films are widely respected as some of the best American and international independent films. \u00a0Generous with his time and dedicated to his alma mater, Jon returns often to UVM to talk to the students about his experiences. \u00a0Jon is also especially dedicated to the professor at UVM who inspired his career: Professor Emeritus Frank Manchel. \u00a0Though retired, Frank also generously donated his time and efforts to not only bring Jon to campus this spring but introduce Jon and run the Q and A. \u00a0Frank’s insightful questions and hearty endorsement and support of the Film and Television Studies students and major was a wonderful gift on top of Jon’s visit. \u00a0Jon spent all day with the students. \u00a0Below are just a few photos of the events. \u00a0We look forward to Jon’s return next spring when he will bring his latest project, The Hunger Games!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jon Kilik and UVM President Jon Fogel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jon always brings his latest project to share with the students, and this spring he brought Miral<\/em>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Frank Manchel and Jon Kilik after the presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frank Manchel introducing his former student Jon Kilik<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jon Kilik discussing the issues surrounding MIRAL<\/p><\/div>\n

Additionally, Jon brought his film to Burlington’s Roxy Theatre. \u00a0Merril Jarvis, the owner of the\u00a0Roxy<\/a>, generously donated the theatre so that Jon could host a fundraiser for the Film and Teleivsion Studies students. \u00a0Thanks to all involved for a wonderful and meaningful visit!<\/p>\n

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Jon visited professor\u00a0Deb Ellis<\/a>‘s production class where he viewed and discussed student projects! \u00a0The students were thrilled with the opportunity to have Jon watch and talk about their work. \u00a0Additionally, Jon visited Sarah Nilsen<\/a>\u2019s senior seminar, Nature Documentaries, to discuss his previous film work and in particular the several documentaries he has produced including Berlin<\/em>, the filming of a live concert in 2006 by Lou Reed and Last Party 2000<\/em>, a film about the presidential campaign narrated by Philip Seymour Hoffman.<\/p>\n

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A small group of students had coffee with Jon. \u00a0They asked him many questions about how he started out and his experiences with actors, directors, and on individual films.<\/p>\n

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***MEDIA*** Several FTS students had the opportunity to interview Jon and Vermont Quarterly<\/em> also will publish a Q&A:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Emeritus Frank Manchel and Professor Hilary Neroni led Jon in a discussion about his career and films that will run as an article in Vermont Quarterly <\/em>this summer.<\/p>\n

FTS major Ana Banu interviewed Jon for the student paper the Cynic:\u00a0\u201cBabel\u2019 producer returns to Burlington: Alum imparts wisdom to students on creating \u201cmagic behind the screen\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

FTS students involved in UVMtv and The Film Club got together and produced an interview with Jon which aired on UVMtv (Click here to see the interview.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Jon Kilik is a much beloved and respected UVM alum. \u00a0One of our most successful alums to work in the film industry, Jon is an independent producer. \u00a0He has worked with such directors as Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Robert De Niro, Tim Robbins, Julian Schnabel, and Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. \u00a0Jon has been nominated many times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/74"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hneroni-ftsnewsspring2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}