Walter Lowe III: Film Festival Circuit

Two years after graduation, Walter Lowe III (BFA 2010) has had his BFA thesis film Protocol of Person and Social Syntax: Lesson One screened in 3 film festivals. The list includes the 49^th Ann Arbor Film Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the 24^th Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the 2^nd Visions Film Festival and Conference in Wilmington, North Carolina. 

Here are his words on the experience: ​“It’s very interesting to see how far a piece of work can take you, even two years after its creation. My thesis has still been gaining me invitations to festivals, and for my most recent screening at Visions, the staff flew me out to the festival, providing complimentary flight and hotel arrangements. It’s this kind of hospitality that really makes me remember the hours spent as a scattered art student, scrambling to put together a big idea before an impending deadline. To have a project travel from my bedroom studio to the big screen is an amazing feeling, and it’s incredibly validating to get this consistent positive response from the people who have seen it. The interesting thing is, I didn’t submit my work to my first festival, the AAFF. In late 2010, I was working on a project with A&D’s own Katherine Weider-Roos, who informed me that she would like to submit it to the event. If I have learned anything from these experiences, it’s that you have to have confidence in your abilities and your work. It may be natural to feel bashful sometimes, but we live in a ​’show me’ world, and you have to be the one to show the world what you’re made of.”