Skip to main content

International Film Series to Show Australian Film, Animal Kingdom

Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2014

Westminster College's Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show Animal Kingdom Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater. The program is free and open to the public.

The 2010 Australian film is a dramatic thriller, directed by David Michod, starring Guy Pearce. Seventeen-year-old J (Josh) is on a hunt for survival amongst a criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him.

The film was nominated for 43 awards and won 39.

Westminster seniors Mark Eck and Jordan Locke will introduce the film and lead a short discussion after the viewing.

Eck, a communication studies major, is a son of Lois Wholey, Pittsburgh, and Mark Eck, Verona.  He is a graduate of Horace Mann School.

Locke, an English major, is a son of Thomas and Annette Locke of Gibsonia and a graduate of Deer Lakes High School.

The International Film Series is named in honor of its founder, Dr. Jacob Erhardt, professor of German emeritus at Westminster College.  Erhardt, who taught at Westminster from 1968 until his retirement in 2004, served as chair of his department from 1970-1986, was named the Language Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association, translated into English Robert Reitzel's Adventures of a Greenhorn, and was recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an outstanding member.

Contact Dr. Deborah Mitchell, professor and chair of Westminster's Department of English and public relations and coordinator of the film series, at 724-946-7030 or email dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.