To celebrate Open Education Week 2021, RDC Library and the RDC Students' Association are co-hosting A Night of Open Film! Join us on Zoom as we stream two films that are openly licensed and discuss open education and resources at RDC.

Join us at 5:30pm!:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87106164643?pwd=Z1NTYlBMQVRaZjFKRUhiOEhGVE1EZz09

Schedule:

• Panel discussion: What is open education? What are the next steps for open education at RDC?
• Short film: Spring (7 min.)
• Feature film: Sita Sings the Blues (82 min.)

Spring by Blender Animation Studio

Spring is an animated fantasy short film created by the Blender Animation Studio. It was made utilizing Blender, an open-source animation software. Spring won the "Best Short Film" award at the Mundos Digitales International Animation Festival in 2019 and has numerous other nominations.

Spring is the Blender Institute's 12th open movie, and is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).

Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley

Sita Sings the Blues is an animated musical romantic comedy-drama film created by Nina Paley. It intersperses events from the Hindu epic the Ramayana with scenes from Paley's own life. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and Husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, three shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy. Sita Sings the Blues has won seven awards and three nominations at international film festivals since its release in 2008.

Sita Sings the Blues is licensed as Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC-0).