Film & Digital Media
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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.
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Arts alum to present sneak preview of feature film at UCSC
UC Santa Cruz arts alumnus Jacob Estes (’94 Media Studies) will present a special advance screening of his latest film “The Details” on Thursday, October 4, at UCSC’s Media Theater.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents work of John Jota Leaños
“Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta”–a bilingual multi-media opera by UCSC assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños–will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 14-16.
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Spike Lee hires UCSC alum as designer for Mike Tyson solo Broadway show
Erik Pearson, a 2001 graduate of UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media, has been chosen by director Spike Lee to design the media for “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” opening July 31 on Broadway
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Sunday SF Chronicle arts section features cover story on B. Ruby Rich
UC Santa Cruz professor of Film and Digital Media B. Ruby Rich was featured in June on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook pullout arts section.
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Documentary by 20 UCSC students to premiere at SC Film Festival
Exit 426: Watsonville—a completely collaborative film made by 20 students in a UC Santa Cruz film class–will have its premiere on Sunday, May 13, at the Nickelodeon Theater in Santa Cruz.
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UCSC film professor John Jota Leaños wins 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts.
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UCSC dean taking Arts Division in new direction
Renewed outreach efforts include partnership with alumnus Randall Grahm to create wines with student-designed labels that support UCSC arts scholarships


