Thursday, March 25, 2010

District 9 in HUMlab



The second film of the HUMlab Science Fiction Movie Series 2010 will be
DISTRICT 9!!!

Title: DISTRICT 9 (dir Neill Blomkamp, 2009)

Date: Wednesday (31 March)
Venue: HUMlab (located in basement of Umeå University library)
Time: 17:15 (introduction); 17:30 (screening)
Language: in English with Swedish subtitles
Admission: Free!!!


As before, there will be discussion after the film with light refreshments.

Produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong), DISTRICT 9 has
been described as "a thriller-diller that trades in ideas without
forgetting to go whup-ass on your nervous system. … District 9, with a
chump-change budget of $30 million, soars on the imagination of its
creator." (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) For more information, including
film notes, visit http://sf.humlab.umu.se/.

We hope to see you there! Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be
interested, and please also encourage your students to attend!

2010 HUMlab SF Movie Series team
Lisa Swanstrom
Scott Stavos
Jenna Ng

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