Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz

Film + Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz | Ranked one of the Top 10 Film Programs in the US | BA | SocDoc MFA | PhD

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

Applications for our MFA program in Social Documentation are due next week!

[UC Santa Cruz @ucsc]

(1/3) 🧵The official UC Santa Cruz Twitter handle will be dark for the foreseeable future. We are concerned about recent changes that are allowing for the increased spread of misinformation and hate speech, in opposition to our campus values and Principles of Community.

[UC Santa Cruz @ucsc]

It's UC Santa Cruz's top 10 news stories of 2022! This year we fully sequenced a human genome, earned the Seal of Excelencia, discovered new galaxies using the James Webb Telescope, honored civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and more. 💫
Read our full list: https://t.co/53Ce6I5W0K

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

NEWS: @LibnOfCongress Carla Hayden has announced the annual selection of 25 films to be inducted into the #NatFilmRegistry. Each was chosen for its cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. Full list: https://t.co/rJoTx8cRba

[Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs @NASEMFordFellow]

Closing soon! Applications for the #Predoctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship close on December 15, 2022 at 5pm EST. Apply now! #PhDs #ScDs #Leadership #PhDChat
https://t.co/qJXLHic8Kc

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

🌟Congratulations to former F+DM Chair & Professor Emeritus Rick Prelinger @footage, recipient of the @AMIAnet Silver Light Award recognizing "outstanding career achievement in moving image archiving."🌟

[AMIA @AMIAnet]

Congratulations to the 2022 AMIA Award recipients! Rick Prelinger, Silver Light Award; Teague Schneiter, O'Farrell Award; Manny Wheeler, Alan Stark Award; and, Johan Oomen, Advocacy Award. Awards will be presented December 19th.

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

Applications for our Critical Practice PhD program are due tomorrow!

[Docalogue @docalogue]

This month's Docalogue is about Hannah Jayanti's speculative documentary Truth or Consequences (2020). Come check out what Greg Cohen and Xiaolu Wang have to say about the film at https://t.co/ZKj6t9FSyB, then stick around and tell us what you think!

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PhD student Hannah Jayanti’s documentary, TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, is featured this month on ⁦@docalogue⁩ https://t.co/ehwqQC8whl

[UC Santa Cruz @ucsc]

UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, housed in the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, has been assisting those seeking asylum in the United States and fighting back against the controversial Title 42 immigration policy.
@RCAucsc
https://t.co/z55F2Svoeh

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

🌟Prof @peter_limbrick with his award-winning book ARAB MODERNISM AS WORLD CINEMA at the Middle East Studies Association conference #MESA2022.🌟

[University of California Press (is on Bluesky) @ucpress]

We love seeing authors at #MESA2022! @peter_limbrick stopped by to pose with his award-winning book ARAB MODERNISM AS WORLD CINEMA, which explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi. Comes see it at the UC Press booth!

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

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[Joseph Braverman @JBraverman1]

Thank you to my film professors at UC Santa Cruz for showing me ‘Jeanne Dielman’ way back when. This is not a movie you watch casually. Akerman essentially crafted a masterpiece about the ritualistic horrors of traditional gender role conformity by defying conventional filmmaking

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

🎞 Not to be missed: retrospective of films by Prof Irene Lusztig, streaming now ⁦@cryptofiction⁩ 🎞 https://t.co/q9T76L52xD

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With @HillaryClinton at today’s opening. #WomenLifeFreedom

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F+DM doctoral student Shirin Towfiq joins renowned Iranian multi-media artists for the Eyes On Iran installation at Four Freedoms Park facing the United Nations in NYC in support of removing Iran from the UN's Commission on the Status of Women. #WomenLifeFreedom

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UC Santa Cruz alum and Distinguished Banana Slug Awardee in the Arts Rick Carter! @ucscArtsDiv

[Variety @Variety]

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ Production Design is Invisible Art https://t.co/1MSME3qjoE

[Film + Digital Media UC Santa Cruz @FilmDigMedUCSC]

🌟Congratulations to Dr. Arturo Delgado Pereira who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "WE WOULD STRIKE: DOCUMENTARY BEYOND REPRESENTATION IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL SPANISH TOWN."🌟

[UC Santa Cruz @ucsc]

To our LGBTQ+ community members, let us be clear: we see you, we believe in you, and we are a better university because of you.

Read our full campus message on the tragic events that occurred in Colorado Springs, CO and access campus resources: https://t.co/8IKYJaHqG3

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🌟Congratulations to Dr. Yulia Gilichinskaya @fictionalizer who successfully defended their doctoral dissertation "Geographies of Settler Innocence: Atlas of Decolonization."🌟