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Media arts professor Susan Hogue and her undergraduate students are putting the finishing touches on Why We Smoke, a documentary produced by an all-student crew.
The film's inaugural screening will take place at
5 p.m. April 25 in McMaster College, Room 239.
Why We Smoke is a thirty-minute film that features interviews with numerous people with an interest in smoking, including experts in the University's Department of Psychology, who discuss the mechanisms of smoking addiction; media experts; and smokers located both on and off campus who reveal their reasons for continued smoking.
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"The film crew was interested in the reasons smokers continue a dangerous habit, which is well documented in scientific findings," Hogue said. "It features historic footage and advertising revealing just how long we have grappled with this national addiction, which kills more than 3,000 people per day in smoking-related illnesses."
Why We Smoke is the third film made by Hogue and her undergraduate student film crews. The first, Promises Made, was shown at 20 film festivals in the United States and Canada, and on an international Website. The second film, Rx, was recently accepted into the ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto in June.
Hogue's undergraduates have experienced the full range of documentary film making to include filming, editing, scoring and sound engineering, scripting, marketing, and Web design.
Their latest film is funded by the S.C. Tobacco Collaborative and the USC Art Department, and sponsored by Healthy Carolina and The Free Times.
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