The Pump-King Documentary has been chosen for National and International Screenings. The film will be shown in Allentown, Pennsylvania, New York, New York, and Calcutta India.
Barely two weeks after its Edinboro premiere, a student documentary has earned a place in the roster of films that will be shown early next year in India at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. Closer to home, the movie has also been named a quarter-finalist for New York’s Oniros Film Awards and an official selection of the inaugural Allentown Film Festival.
The Pump-King profiles Anthony Pater, an accomplished sculptor of pumpkins and other gourds.
Pater, a PennWest Animation student, employs the precision tools of woodworkers, sculptors, and ceramicists, to transform pumpkins into detailed, whimsical faces. “People expect
jack-o-lanterns,” says Pater, but “I see my ultimate function as artist to defy expectations
Students create documentaries in PennWest Edinboro art courses
Collaborating with student filmmakers Noah Kelley, Levi Lewis, Reggie Taylor, and Makayla
King, producer-director Ethan Johnson completed the film in partial fulfillment of requirements for Professor Brian Fuller’s Non-Fiction Filmmaking course. Since Fuller’s arrival at Edinboro in 2018, class content has centered on the history and creation of short-form documentaries. The Pump-King joins Crafting in COVID, Good Curling, Roll Out, and Detecting Deception, in a list of the course’s student-produced films which have gone on to win festival accolades.
The Edinboro campus of Pennsylvania Western University has offered instruction in film and
video production since 1969. Graduates of its Digital Filmmaking & Photography concentration
routinely become contributors to high-profile studios, films, and television shows. For more information contact Brian Fuller, Asst. Professor of Digital Filmmaking
Pennsylvania Western University, philm@pennwest.edu.
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