Meet The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Class of 2022, a group of agents, managers, lawyers, and executives blazing their own paths while navigating an entertainment industry in a state of constant flux. See the article in the Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/
The Faculty in the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies would like to voice our strong support for our teaching assistants and associates, currently on strike. In addition, we also want to express our solidarity with lecturers whose contract disallows more active involvement in the strike. We base our support on the dual recognition … Continued
UCSB film students Noah Hecht, Jon Peter Lewis, Kate Bellantoni, Joo Yeon Yoo, Jake Marone, and Luke Todd are returning from a weekend of celebration after their recent short film Moon was awarded Audience Choice Short at the San Diego International Film Festival. Created through FAMST’s 106 Crew Production program, the film follows a young … Continued
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Ben Feigin ’97: In Memoriam The Department of Film and Media Studies is deeply saddened by the passing of Ben Feigin, 1997 UCSB alumni, who, amongst many other accolades and credits, was Executive Producer of “Schitt’s Creek.” The final season received an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy … Continued
Pujita Guha, a PhD student in our program, has received one of Europe’s most prestigious and generous arts awards, the Bikubenfonden Vision Exhibition Award. As one of the founders of The Forest Curriculum, she will be collaborating with the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and Tunisian curator Aziza Harmel through 2025 on the project Hosting … Continued
McNamara is the co-creator and will serve as showrunner. The department offers their congratulations on this marvelous accomplishment. For more information see: https://variety.com/2022/global/asia/disney-largest-australia-production-slate-1235269682/ “The Artful Dodger” is an international premium character drama set in 1850s Australia. It is a well-known and much-loved story, with a twist. Across eight episodes, the scripted series explores the adult … Continued
Stephen Borunda has won the Graduate Student Essay Prize conferred by the Media and the Environment SIG of SCMS for his essay, “A Body Downwind of the Atomic Attack at Trinity: Mediations of Atomic Coloniality in Nuevo México.” SIG co-chairs Amy Rust and Meghan McDonald write that the judges — Jennifer Peterson, Carter Soles, and … Continued
Tinghao Zhou is involved in the production of a new short film entitled Hair Tie, Egg, Homework Books (Tou sheng, ji dan, zuo ye ben) (Directed by Runxiao Luo, 15 min). The film was selected into the official Orizzonti program of last year’s Venice International Film Festival and it’s being included in the Women Taking Charge program at the … Continued
Ross Melnick and Allison Anders are interviewed in a new feature length documentary entitled Only in Theaters (Directed by Raphael Sbarge 94 min). The film is about Laemmle Theatres and the precarious future of theatrical moviegoing at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday, March 5th at 7:20pm. For a trailer related to the film, see: https://youtu.be/1DFTlVoAwQo … Continued