The School of Architecture’s Master in Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) program has started an eight-part lecture series featuring developer Frank Starkey.

Starkey is co-founder of Longleaf, a 568-acre Traditional Neighborhood Development located 25 miles northwest of Tampa. Construction began in 1998 and the project is half-complete, with more than 400 homes, 50,000 square feet of commercial space, a preschool, an elementary school, and a church. Starkey has been involved with many aspects of development, including planning, entitlement, code writing and implementation, engineering, permitting, construction, and more.

His next lecture, “How It Was Done: The Followers and Their Tests,” will take place on Friday, September 17 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Glasgow Hall at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. It is free and open to the public.

For the remaining lecture schedule, click here.

Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley and named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. Korengal was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. Restrepo is an entirely experiential film. The cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make the audience feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop: The conclusions are up to you. The film screens on Friday, September 17 at 10 p.m., Saturday, September 18 at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m., and Sunday, September 19 at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students and staff. General admission is $8, cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

The UM School of Communication welcomes Danish filmmaker Laurits Munch-Petersen for a series of screenings and discussions at the Cosford this weekend. Munch-Petersen graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2003, where his thesis film, Mellem Os (Between Us) won a Student Academy Award for Best Foreign film and was optioned for a feature-length adaptation by an American production company. In the years since, he has written and directed the short documentary Forestil Dig on Danish novelist Karen Blixen (author of Out of Africa), the action feature Ambulancen, and the award-winning documentary Seducer’s Fall.

Munch-Petersen’s latest film, the hybrid drama-documentary Hurry Home, explores the lives of two Danish women whose husbands have been deployed to fight in Afghanistan. The film is currently making the European film festival circuit and recently won the Audience Award at the Paris Film Festival.

Different combinations of Munch-Petersen’s films will be screened each night, followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker.  For interview requests, e-mail [email protected]. The films screen on Thursday, September 16 at 7 p.m.; Friday, September 17 at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, September 18 at 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, UM alumni, faculty, non UM-students and staff. General admission is $8, cash only; free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they fall into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon/mad scientist. His fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, and in doing so, bring to life a human centipede. The film screens on Friday, September 10 at midnight. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

A Jeff Phegley print.

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery, along with PrintZero Studios, will present an international exhibition of printmaking culled from the PrintZero Studios 7th Exchange at UM Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami.

The exhibition, which features the work of artists from Scotland, Canada, France, England, and the United States, runs from September 6 through October 1. In celebration of the opening, a reception will be held on September 11.

The exhibition includes works by Michael Alm, Charles Baird, Nola Dahl, Lisa Hasegawa, Elizabeth Jabar, Norman McBeath, Richard Repasky, Charissa Schulze, and many other artists. A catalog will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

A full schedule of CAS Gallery exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art. Visit the University of Miami Wynwood Project Space every second Saturday for the monthly gallery walk to view student, faculty, and alumni works.

For more information about the exhibition, call PrintZero Productions at 740-590-7597 or e-mail [email protected]. For information on UM’s Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or e-mail [email protected].