Alan Arrivee

Alan Arrivée is a filmmaker and writer and is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Cinema Director at The University of Mississippi. His short film Silent Radio, which he both wrote and directed, was awarded Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography at The European Independent Film Festival 2007. It also received the 2007 Long Island International Film Expo's Best Actor award (Eric Winzenried) and its Triple Play Award for Best Technical Integration (Cinematography, Original Score and Art Direction), and won the Best Short Subject Award at the Ellensburg Film Festival. It has been the Official Selection of over twenty international film festivals, including Staten Island and Breckenridge. Alan received story credit on the feature film The Road to Empire, directed by Michael Sibay, which received the Platinum ‘Remi’ Award for Best Work-In-Progress at the 2007 Houston WorldFest. His plays have been performed in Chicago, Los Angeles and at various universities, and his short play The Original I.Q. Tester was a finalist for the 2007 Heideman Award and has recently been published in The Tusculum Review. His memoir The Appropriate Use of Hands will appear in this coming summer issue of The Florida Review. Alan is also a professional actor and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity as well as the University Film & Video Association and the Austin Film Society. He received both his B.S. in Communication/Theatre and his M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. Alan serves yearly on the Jury of The European Independent Film Festival in Paris. He also serves for the first time this year on the Jury of The Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi where he lives with his wife and daughter. He has just completed post-production for his new short film Man at the Door.