A Halloween Evening with Horror Film Maker Larry Fessenden: Medical Humanities on the Screen
Free screening of Depraved follow by a panel discussion with Fessenden
Mr. Fessenden’s film Depraved is a modern take on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, retelling the story in modern times and using trauma and profit as motivators as opposed to the hubris that Mary Shelly sought to describe. It received wonderful reviews, was shown at numerous film festivals, and the New York Times called Depraved his “most coherent and visually polished work to date.”
After the screening, there will be a panel discussion with Mr. Fessenden, Professor William Nelson, PhD, MDiv, Director of the Ethics and Human Values Program at the Dartmouth Institute, and Professor Jennie Chamberlain of the Film and Media Studies Department at Dartmouth College. Steve Schlozman, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Medical Education will moderate.
Bio: Larry Fessenden, winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award, and nominee for the 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for producing, is the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror movies DEPRAVED (distributed by IFC Films), HABIT (Nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), WENDIGO (Winner Best Film 2001 Woodstock Film Festival) and NO TELLING. His film THE LAST WINTER (Nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award for best ensemble cast) premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Fessenden directed SKIN AND BONES for NBC TV’s horror anthology FEAR ITSELF and the feature film BENEATH for Chiller films. He wrote the screenplay with Guillermo del Toro of ORPHANAGE, an English language remake of the successful Spanish film EL ORFANATO. He is the writer, with Graham Reznick, of the hit Sony Playstation videogame UNTIL DAWN. Fessenden was awarded the 2007 Sitges Film Festival Maria Award for his work as a producer, actor and director in genre film, and he won the 2009 Golden Hammer Award for “being such an inspiring force in the industry.” In 2011, Fessenden was inducted into the “Fangoria Hall of Fame” and was honored by the UK’s Total Film as an Icon of Horror during the Frightfest Film Festival.