College of Fine Arts to present short-film festival of UA

An obsession with all things French. A grieving recent widow. A 10 year-old boy's struggle for self-awareness. Inspiration and writers' block. Pork rinds and Spandex.

Sounds like a sphinx's riddle waiting to backfire.

These ideas are actually subjects of six short films produced by UA media arts alumni while they still attended the university. The films were senior projects, the culmination of years of preparation, both scholastic and experiential.