Engaging Culture Weekend
Festival Seminars & Events Schedule
Thursday, April 16
7:30 p.m.
Sounds of Stage and Screen Concert
Presented by Asbury University’s student ensembles
Orchestra, Women’s Choir, Men’s Glee Club, Handbell Choir, Chorale, and Concert Band
Jameson Hall / Akers Auditorium
Free Admission
Friday, April 17 – Highbridge Seminar Sessions
9:00 a.m.
Session 1 – Storyboards to Second Units
How Films Plan and Shoot Big Scenes
David Negron Jr.
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
10:00 a.m.
Asbury Chapel – Featured Speaker
Animator-Director Tony Bancroft
Hughes Auditorium
11:00 a.m.
Session 2 – From Script to Screen
Writing and Producing Films That Actually Get Made (and Seen)
Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
12:00 p.m.
Lunch Hour
1:00 p.m.
Session 3-A – Production Design and Illustration for Film
Going Beyond Storyboards
David Negron Jr.
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
1:00 p.m.
Session 3-B – Running the Room
Inside Animation Showrunning
Jim Krieg
Miller Center – Room 309
2:00 p.m.
Session 4-A – Set Leadership & Creative Professionalism
How to Be the Person Everyone Wants to Rehire
Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
2:00 p.m.
Session 4-B – Writing Icons
Adapting Crisis on Infinite Earths
Jim Krieg
Miller Center – Room 309
3:00 p.m.
Session 5 – Judges’ Panel
AI and Preparing for the Industry Today
Panel: David Negron Jr., Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez, Jim Krieg
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Film Screening – “Light of the World”
Followed by Q&A with Tony Bancroft (Director of Animation)
Miller Center – Gyertson Screening Room
7:30 p.m.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Presented by the Asbury University Theatre Department
Greathouse Theatre
$15 General Admission | $12 Faculty/Staff | $10 Students
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Saturday, April 18
10:30 a.m.
Judges’ Reception with Official Selection Filmmakers
Exclusive event for producers and directors
Windsor Manor – Great Hall
2:00 p.m.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Presented by the Asbury University Theatre Department
Greathouse Theatre
$15 General Admission | $12 Faculty/Staff | $10 Students
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7:00 p.m. (6:30 doors)
Highbridge Film Festival – Showcase & Awards
Presented by Asbury University School of Communication Arts
Hughes Auditorium
$15 Festival Pass
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Ticket includes Red Carpet Reception immediately after the awards show in the Miller Center for Communications Arts.
Livestream begins at 6:45 p.m. on the main web page.