Logan Film Festival adds Oscar and Emmy winners to slate

LOGAN— An Oscar winning editor and an Emmy winning composer have been added as guest lecturers for this week’s Logan Film Festival.

Jeff Consiglio edited the Academy Award winning documentary “Inocente,” which won the 2013 Oscar for “Best Documentary Short Subject.”

Marc Aramian has composed hundreds of scores for film, TV, six record albums and more than 500 commercials.

The two will speak together Friday, March 22, from 5-6 p.m. on “The Art of Collaborative Filmmaking” at the Caine-Lyric Theatre. Saturday at 3 p.m., Aramian will discuss the creation of the music soundtrack for Ethan Hawke’s horror film Sinister. At 6 p.m. Saturday Consiglio’s lecture “Lying, Cheating & Stealing – The Art of Honest Storytelling” explains what it takes to make great stories into films.

Logan’s Film Festival this year begins Thursday, March 21, with an opening gala at the Caine-Lyric Theatre on Center Street at 4:30 p.m.

“There will be a lot of food and drinks and a chance to mingle with filmmakers and the casting crew that is coming in,” said Gary Saxton of the Logan Downtown Alliance, who is a co-founder of the festival.

The opening gala is followed by the USU Caine College of the Arts Fringe Film Competition at 6 p.m.

“The first film begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Dansante Building Theatre at 59 South 100 West, and the films continue nonstop until midnight Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the Dansante and at the Lyric.”

A complete listing of all 48 films can be found at loganfilmfestival.com.

The Logan Film Festival 2013 Awards Ceremony will be Friday at 7 p.m. at the Caine Lyric Theatre.

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