This episode features Steve Collins and Audrey Mills, two filmmakers involved in the Wesleyan community.
Steve Collins is an Associate Professor of Film at Wesleyan and a professional filmmaker. His filmwork focuses on spiritual rehabilitation through humor, pain, love, and cinema. The feature film You Hurt my Feelings, which he wrote and directed, was a New York Times and New York Magazine critics pick, available digitally through Oscilloscope, and his most recent film, the comedy I've Got Issues is now available digitally through Gravitas Ventures.
He will be presenting a clip from The Naked Kiss, a 1964 film written and directed by Samuel Fuller.
Audrey Mills is a Wesleyan sophomore from Houston, Texas majoring in Film with a Writing Certificate. She is a screenwriter, playwright and musician involved with the Middletown Gather Project and active in several student productions on campus. Her latest album The Amateur came out in Summer 2020.
She will be presenting a clip from It’s Such a Beautiful Day, a 2012 film directed, written, animated, and produced by Don Hertzfeld.
Thanks to Professor Collins and Audrey Mills for their appearances on this episode!
The Words of Wesleyan is produced by the Shapiro Center for Writing at Wesleyan University.
Host: Anna Tjeltveit
Creators: Anna Tjeltveit, Amy Bloom, Stephanie Weiner
Theme Music: "Let Me Make It Clear" by Wesleyan Professor of Music Jay Hoggard
