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Film@UC Features Animated Fairy Tale

"Azur & Asmar" Sure To Please

Written By Katie Prue '10, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (09/04/2009) -     Two young boys raised as brothers, one a fair-skinned blonde with blue eyes and the other dark skinned with brown hair and eyes embark on a magical journey sure to captivate all audiences. Film@UC, Utica College’s weekly film and video series, will screen Azur & Asmar: The Prince’s Quest on Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. The viewing is free of charge and open to the public.
    Asmar and his mother are strangers in a foreign land before she is taken in as a surrogate mother for Azur, a light-skinned well-to-do child. The boys are raised as brothers as the film follows their ever-blossoming relationship. Both children are enraptured by their mother’s tales of her homeland; especially the one about a magical princess trapped in a cave awaiting savior by a heroic prince. After the master of the house, Azur’s father, cruelly banishes Asmar and his mother, separating the boys as Azur leaves town for private tutoring, the film is launched into a land of fantasy full of color. Years later the boys are reunited as Azur seeks to find the mythical land he relished from his mother’s tales. After years apart, neither boy has forgotten the tale of the princess locked away awaiting her salvation. What will happen when only one can be the true hero?
    Written and directed by Michel Ocelot in 2006, this French and Arabic film has been adapted into an English and Arabic film. Distributed in 2006, this feature has just reached the United States and Jen Chaney of the Washington Post raves, “Combining cutouts with 3-D digital animation, Ocelot turns every frame of his film into a beautiful, dynamic page out of a picture book.” The film is guaranteed to be 99 minutes of pure enjoyment.
    For more information visit http://www.utica.edu/academic/ssm/communicationarts/film/index.cfm

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About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls over 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 37 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 20 master’s and two doctoral degree programs