Bringing together filmmakers and film lovers to celebrate the art of documentary film, the 13th season of Utah Tech University’s DOCUTAH International Film Festival is set to take place the first weekend of November.
DOCUTAH will take place from Nov. 3 to Nov. 5 at the Larry H. Miller Megaplex, Pineview Stadium 10 at 2376 Red Cliffs Drive in St. George. Films will be shown from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of the festival. The community is invited to attend the event and all-festival passes, day passes and single film tickets are available for purchase on DOCUTAH’s website.
“For 13 wonderful seasons, DOCUTAH has brought the best in new documentary films right to our own backyard,” said Karman Wilson, who is serving as DOCUTAH’s executive director for the first time this year after working as the festival’s managing director. “For almost eight of those years, I have been fortunate to have been part of bringing the DOCUTAH experience to life!”
Featuring 44 films from eight countries, the festival features screenings, master classes, director talks and special events that delve even deeper into the films’ subject matters and the art and science of creating a documentary. DOCUTAH, which seeks to promote education while creating an atmosphere of camaraderie and community, originated at the university as the brainchild of Emmy award-winning filmmaker and retired UT film professor Phil Tuckett.
DOCUTAH, in conjunction with Utah Tech’s College of Humanities & Social Sciences, will screen the award-winning documentary “Bound by the Wind” on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Learning Resource Center on the UT campus.
The documentary follows downwinders from around the world who were affected by nuclear testing and shared how they inspired the movement to impose a comprehensive nuclear weapons ban. The screening is free to attend and the filmmaker, David Brown, along with special faculty guests will host a Q&A session after the screening.
Epitomizing Utah Tech’s “active learning. active life.” approach to education, DOCUTAH also offers film students the opportunity to help with the festival. Additionally, first-semester students in UT’s Digital Film Program pick up cameras and other gear for themselves and participate in the filmmaking process. Beyond the classroom, students gain real-world experience with industry leaders by helping with UT Studios projects, a professional film studio housed on campus.
For more information about DOCUTAH and the festival’s film schedule, visit docutah.com. To learn more about Utah Tech’s film program, visit film.utahtech.edu.