Film & Digital Media
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Film grad promoting documentary that won chancellor’s award
Last May, UCSC graduate student Sadia Halima received the Chancellor’s Research Award for her thesis film Laal Pari/The Red Fairy, a documentary addressing women’s participation in politics at the grassroots level in rural India. Her documentary has now been accepted for screening at several international film festivials
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Soc Doc alumna’s work with Syrian refugees featured on CBS News
UCSC alumna Bridgette Auger’s ongoing work with Syrian refugees is featured as “The Toll of Syria’s War” on the CBS News web site.
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7th annual screening of Soc Doc graduate films at Del Mar Theatre
UCSC presents the 7th annual exhibition of thesis films from the Film and Digital Media Department’s masters program in Social Documentation, June 12, at the Del Mar Theater.
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UCSC film professor celebrates release of new book at Lincoln Center
Two decades ago, UCSC film professor B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” to describe a new type of film making its debut at film festivals featuring lesbian and gay protagonists. Her latest book offers new thoughts on the topic and also brings together the best of Rich’s writing on the genre.
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Digital Arts and New Media grad student exhibition opens April 27
Amplified CB radios, playable wrestling games about nutrition, and buildings that grow in the dark are just a few of the things you’ll encounter at “ground (ctrl)”—opening April 27 at UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center (DARC building).
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Alumni Weekend: Reliving memories, making new ones
Excitement is building for UCSC’s premiere alumni event, April 26-28, which is packed with reunions, celebrations, receptions, and opportunities.
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Israeli filmmaker to screen acclaimed documentary about famed architect
UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department will present a free public screening of award-winning Israeli documentarian Duki Dror’s acclaimed film “Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” on Feb. 25, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
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Year of the Slug: A look back at 2012 at UC Santa Cruz
Higgs boson, condors, pumas, the Grateful Dead Archive … 2012 was yet another year of discoveries, breakthroughs, newsmakers, and honors for UC Santa Cruz. Here’s a look back at a few highlights of the year at UCSC.
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UCSC alumna wins 2012 HBO/NALIP Documentary Filmmaker Award
Kimberly Bautista–a 2009 graduate of the Social Documentation Program at UC Santa Cruz–has been named the winner of the 2012 HBO and National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Documentary Film Award.
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UCSC professor premieres explosive documentary at Pacific Rim Festival
“The very first day of shooting the film there was a huge explosion,” said Gustavo Vazquez, UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media. Vazquez was high up in the Peruvian Andes filming “Playing with Fire,” a kaleidoscopic portrait of the small town of Celendín…
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UCSC alumna thrives promoting arts and humanities in Obama White House
“I often say, only partly facetiously, that I have the best job in Washington D.C.,” notes UC Santa Cruz alumna Rachel Goslins, executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues.