Kevin Alexander Boon | |
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 Kevin Alexander Boon | |
| Born | Kevin Alexander Boon October 13, 1956 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, film director, English professor, film producer |
Kevin Alexander Boon (a.k.a. Kevin A. Boon, Kevin Boon, Doc Boon) is a Pushcart-nominated author, an award-winning filmmaker, and a Professor of English and Media Studies at Penn State Mont Alto. [1]
| Title | Release date | Studio | Awards |
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| Two Days Back | November 18, 2011 | Third Child Productions/Mont Alto Film Project | Best Feature [2] |
| Ghosting | October 4, 2016 | Third Child Productions/Mont Alto Film Project | Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography |
| A Host of Sparrows | 2018 | Third Child Productions/Open Keg Film Project | Best Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Ensemble Cast |
| That Kiss (short) | 2023 | Third Child Productions | |
| Year | Work | Festival | Category | Result |
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| 2019 | A Host of Sparrows | Tupelo Film Festival | Elvin Whitesides Best Director Award | WON |
| 2018 | A Host of Sparrows | Maverick Movie Awards | Best Screenplay | NOMINEE |
| 2018 | A Host of Sparrows | Clifton Film Celebration | Best Feature | WON |
| 2018 | A Host of Sparrows | Clifton Film Celebration | Best Cinematography | WON |
| 2018 | A Host of Sparrows | Indie Gathering International Film Festival | Best Ensemble Cast | WON |
| 2016 | Ghosting | Flagler Film Festival | Best Horror/Thriller | WON |
| 2016 | Ghosting | Flagler Film Festival | Best Director | WON |
| 2016 | Ghosting | Bare Bones International Film Festival | Audience Award - Best Poster | WON |
| 2015 | Ghosting | Tupelo Film Festival | Best Feature [3] | 2nd Place |
| 2015 | Ghosting | Philadelphia Independent Film Festival | Best Feature | WON |
| 2015 | Ghosting | World Music & Independent Film Festival | Best Director (DMV) | WON |
| 2015 | Ghosting | Maverick Movie Awards | Best Editing | NOMINEE |
| 2015 | Ghosting | Maverick Movie Awards | Best Music | NOMINEE |
| 2015 | Ghosting | I Filmmaker International Film Festival - Marbella, Spain | Best Horror Feature | NOMINEE |
| 2015 | Ghosting | World Music & Independent Film Festival | Best Cinematography (DMV) | WON |
| 2015 | Ghosting | Harrisburg-Hershey Independent Film Festival | Best Local Feature | WON |
| 2011 | Two Days Back | Bare Bones International Film Festival | Best Feature - Horror/Sci-Fi [4] | WON |
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works; further collections have been published after his death.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism, and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics. Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he is often called the "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" and is considered an early leader in liberal Christianity. The neo-orthodoxy movement of the twentieth century, typically seen to be spearheaded by Karl Barth, was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence. As a philosopher he was a leader of German Romanticism.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war, an experience which Vonnegut himself lived through as an American serviceman. The work has been called an example of "unmatched moral clarity" and "one of the most enduring anti-war novels of all time".
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985.
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Mark Vonnegut is an American pediatrician and author. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut. He is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. He described himself in the preface to his 1975 book as "a hippie, son of a counterculture hero, BA in religion, genetic disposition to schizophrenia."
Ruth Underwood is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977.
Slapstick of Another Kind is a 1984 American comic science fiction film starring Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman. It was filmed in 1982, and released in March 1984 by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing. The film was written and directed by Steven Paul and is based on the novel Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut.
Joseph Trimble Rothrock was an American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania. In 1895, Rothrock was appointed the first forestry commissioner to lead the newly formed Division of Forestry in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Two of his major accomplishments as commissioner were his land acquisition program and the creation of a forest academy to train foresters for state service.
Peter Dendle is a professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto, teaching classes on folklore, 20th and 21st century representations of the Middle Ages, Old and Middle English, and the monstrous. Dendle has written books and articles on a number of topics, including cryptozoology, philology, the demonic in literature, zombie movies, and Medieval plants and medicine. His work on zombies was featured by NPR.
The "Twelve Apostles" were a group of Venezuelan businessmen close to President Carlos Andrés Pérez. The term was coined by Pedro Duno (1975) and became part of the Venezuelan political language. The group included Pedro Tinoco and Carmelo Lauria Lesseur. Of the various family groups involved, the Cisneros Group of Gustavo Cisneros was the most successful by the 1990s.
Gregory D. Sumner is a professor of History at University of Detroit Mercy and the author of the books Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle,Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels, and Detroit in World War II.
David Bianculli is an American TV critic, columnist, radio personality, non-fiction author and university professor. Bianculli has served as the television critic for NPR's radio show Fresh Air since the Philadelphia-based show went national in 1987, and regularly fills in for the show's long-time host, Terry Gross. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website TVWorthWatching.com, and an associate professor of TV and film history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.
