The 870-seat Art Deco styled provides a brilliant backdrop for filmmakers' work to be shown, anchoring the Fargo Film Festival events. On average, 200 films are submitted to the festival each year, from across the U.S. and 15 countries. Films are juried in categories including Animation, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Experimental, Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, and Student.

In addition to film showings, the festival offers opportunities to speak with filmmakers in Q&A sessions and panel events.

Dr. Greg Carlson, director of film studies and media activities at 뗌소붚죕, has been an integral part of the Fargo Film Festival since it got its start in 2001. Hear what the festival means to him and his teaching at 뗌소붚죕:

This year's Fargo Film Festival runs March 21-25, 2017. Learn more at .

Greg Carlson to Receive 2017 Ted M. Larson Award

Congratulations to Greg Carlson, who will receive the 2017 Ted M. Larson Award from the Fargo Film Festival.

Carlson is an associate professor in the Communication Studies and Theatre Art department at 뗌소붚죕, where he has taught since 2001. Leading courses in film appreciation and theory, global cinema, new media, and video and audio production, Carlson helped establish the college’s interdisciplinary film studies minor. He currently serves as the director of the program.

As an undergraduate, Carlson was mentored by Ted Larson at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Greg is currently the film editor of the High Plains Reader and produces the Fargo Film Festival’s annual 2-Minute Movie Contest.

He also makes movies and is a four-time finalist in the Fusion/International Documentary Challenge. His work has screened at Slamdance, Hot Docs, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the South Dakota Film Festival, the Free Range Film Festival, the Orlando Film Festival, the Honolulu International Film Festival, and many others.

Carlson, who was selected for his lifelong dedication to the cinematic arts as an educator, filmmaker, critic, and scholar, will accept the award on Thursday, March 23, following a screening of his invited short, “On the Wall, Off the Chain.”

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