{"id":8140,"date":"2026-07-29T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:26:50","slug":"jon-cavallero-appears-on-news-center-maine-for-the-bates-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2026\/07\/29\/jon-cavallero-appears-on-news-center-maine-for-the-bates-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Cavallero appears on News Center Maine for the Bates Film Festival\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>News Center Maine<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/local\/207\/the-2026-bates-film-festival-opens-this-week-in-maine\/97-7b48f27c-9678-48c5-802b-578d07f2ec76\">interviewed Bates Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Jon Cavallero<\/a>, along with students Shelter Gimbel-Sherr \u201927 of Seattle and Nate Shore \u201927 of Kennebunkport, Maine, about the 2026 Bates Film Festival. The festival ran from May 12 to 17 and was organized by Bates students in Cavallero\u2019s Short Term course.\u00a0\u201cThe basic idea is to have students involved in every aspect of the festival\u2019s planning and execution,\u201d Cavallero told <em>News Center Maine<\/em>, \u201cand to create an event that\u2019s free and open to the public.\u201d This year\u2019s festival featured over 45 films as well as panels of filmmakers, professors, and students, and included a focus on the work of Maine-based filmmakers and actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Center Maine interviewed Bates Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1827,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["jonathan-j-cavallero"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4115],"tags":[4310],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-bates-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}