Annette Olsen-Fazi International Film Festival Continues Friday

Take a chance during the intersession to visit other places through the Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) Annette Olsen-Fazi International Film Festival.

The Film Festival will primarily be screened at the TAMIU Student Center Theater, room SC 236 twice weekly throughout May.

Films are free of charge and open to the public.

The Festival honors the memory of the late Dr Annette Olsen-Fazi, a TAMIU faculty member who initiated the University’s first French Film Festival in 2007 and passed away this January.

The Film Festival was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The schedule and films showing are as follows:

Audiencia (Laredo), Friday, May 22 at 7 p.m.

Señorita extraviada (México), Friday, May 22 at 7:15

Quince (Encinal), Saturday, May 23 at 7 p.m.

Finding Dawn (Canada) Saturday, May 23 at 7:15 p.m.

No importa que (Encinal), Friday, May 29 at 7 p.m.

De nadie (México) Friday, May 29 at 7:15 p.m.

Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d’ Amélie Poulain, France), May 30 at 7 p.m.

For more information, call 326.3047 or e-mail amoran@tamiu.edu. For full film descriptions, visit the Festival Web site at: tamiu.edu/coas/filmfest

Journalists who need additional information or help with media requests and interviews should contact the Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Information Services at prmis@tamiu.edu