Professor’s winning film in Cincinnati Film Festival

By: Tatum Hunter The Cincinnati Film Festival is coming up and with it comes the debut of “Sanctity of Sanctuary,” a feature documentary by Blis DeVault, an assistant professor in Xavier’s Department of Communication Arts. The film already premiered in Australia, winning Best Environmental Film at the 2013 Byron Bay International Film Festival. DeVault is hoping to keep up her winning record this week in Cincinnati. “It’s a love story,” DeVault said of the documentary which examines the relationship between Paul Strauss, an organic farmer and herbalist, and the Equinox farm, a farm he has cared for and loved for … Continue reading Professor’s winning film in Cincinnati Film Festival