<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/film-faculty-screens-first-film-festival.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>09/06/2022</pubDate><title>Film Faculty Screens First Film Festival</title><description>The inaugural Gleaners Film Festival at Franklin &amp; Marshall College Sept. 22-24 will feature director John Waters and "Pink Flamingos," his 1972 "exercise in poor taste" (trailer in this link), which, at the time of its release, was initially banned in Australia and Switzerland. F&amp;M Associate Professor of Film Jeremy Moss and Sonia Misra, a former F&amp;M film professor now at Connecticut College, are the festival's co-directors and programmers.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/730760075477537785-red-palms-prayer.0.140.6720.4048.full.jpg" alt="Filmmaker John Waters will give a semi-comedic performance at F&amp;Ms Ann &amp; Richard Barshinger Center for Musical Arts in"/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Film and Media Studies</tag></tags></item>