[Audio] "Travellers and Magicians" Plays at MSU's Cinema International

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published October 19, 2017 at 11:58 AM CDT

This weekend, Murray State's Cinema International features the 2003 Bhutanese film "Travellers and Magicians." It's a colorful travelogue that tells a story within a story. A young government official in love with the idea of America travels from his sleepy village to the capital to pick up the documents that will allow him to travel to the United States. Along the way, he meets a Buddhist monk who offers him a new way to see his native culture. Todd Hatton speaks with Cinema International director Dr. Therese St. Paul about "Travellers and Magicians."

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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