Purple Valley Films

This Sunday at 2:30, we’re screening an episode of The Honeymooners at Williamstown Commons. Volunteers needed to chat with the residents after the show. Email hjc1@williams.edu if interested.

Cooking with Steven is a Chinese cooking program for college students by college students. We show you how to make economical, healthy and authentic Chinese dishes that you can easily prepare in your dorm kitchens.

http://www.CookingWithSteven.com

Join us at
http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/webcast

Video produced by: Danny Y. Huang
Starring: Aayush Khadka, Ayesha Shahid, Will Slack, Dick Quinn, and the Williams Women’s Soccer Team

A night of mind melting tripped out animated videos and interactive psychedelic multi-media performances presented by Portland, Oregon musical group Hooliganship, the 2008 AMRCAN Fall tour was an 80-minute travelling roadshow at Paresky Theater, including shorts by artists Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Adrian Freeman Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad and more. Alongside this cartoon theater was a performance by Hooliganship a grunge rock inspired dance-off duo that combines highly orchestrated cell phone tunes with freak-out animations for a sensory-overload multimedia party. Read the rest of this entry »

Beyond the French Quarter is a student production that captures the unconventional accounts of youth volunteers in New Orleans. Follow us beyond the cameras and tourists, as we try to find hope in the areas that still haunt of desolation three years after Hurricane Katrina. Read the rest of this entry »

By Bonnie Obremski (Courtesy of The North Adams Transcript)

Immigrant families living in North Adams and surrounding communities need help learning to speak and read English, according to people interviewed in a documentary film a dozen Williams College students are finishing this spring.

“We found that one of the greatest barriers for adults who would like to take English as a second language is the number of hours they have to work during the day to support their families,” Allison Seyferth, a senior political economy major from Bennington, Vt., said on Friday. “We’re hoping the film will increase community awareness and interest in helping Northern Berkshire’s growing immigrant population.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Akemi Ueda (Courtesy of The Williams Record)

As some students escaped to the balmy tropics and hit the beach over spring break, over 50 students headed south in search of more than just sunny weather. These students arrived in New Orleans not to sample the Creole cuisine or discover the culture of the Mardi Gras town. Instead, they devoted a week of their time off to volunteer and, in the case of eight students, to film a documentary on the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Read the rest of this entry »

Official selection for NPAR 2008 in Annecy Film Festival, France

This is a story of two strangers with the same birthday. The first one, a quiet boy, receives a phone call from his girlfriend that she wants to break up with him. The second one, an apparently socially active girl, wants to find some solitude on her birthday. But something happens that draws the both of them close together. Read the rest of this entry »

Concert Video for Williams Student Symphony: Saluting the Sea. In this concert, we brought a crew of five, with a four-camera set-up to film the event. Three of the cameras covered various angles of close-ups of the performers and the audience, and the last camera was mounted on a 12-ft tall ProAm Crane, which provided a sweeping, grandiose, panoramic shot of the entire concert hall. Read the rest of this entry »

We own an 8-ft ProAm camera crane. If you would like to check it out, contact Danny Y. Huang at yh1 [at] williams [dot] edu. Here is a short film that I made entirely using this crane.