University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center

Scroll down for upcoming and previous Spring 2008 Doc Ctr sponsored and co-sponsored events, as well as other events, news, calls, and funding info…

Austin Film Society Texas Doc Tour with UT Documentaries Screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown: May 14, 2008 * “Girls of Don Bosco” (dir. Kendra Dorty BS ’03, MFA ’07) * “The Way North” (dir. Shara Lange MFA ’07) * “Road to Tlacotepec” (dir. Berndt Mader MFA ’07) Austin Film Society screening info.

The Road to Tlacotepec dir. Berndt Mader, 2008

Previous Programs, Spring 2008

UT Documentary Center Artist-in-Residence Jeanne Finley Residency: February 25-29, 2008 Public screening and Q&A: February 28, 2008 More info about public screening. Download flyer about public screening.

Drill, 2006

RTF Master Class with Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell Class date: March 3, 2008 Download flyer with more info.

Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark

UT Documentary Center Artist-in-Residence Alison Rooper Residency: March 17-21, 2008 Public screening and Q&A: March 20, 2008 More info about public screening. Download flyer about public screening.

Doping for Gold, 2007

UT Documentary Center Artist-in-Residence Joe Rodriguez Residency: March 26-28, 2008 Public presentation and Q&A: March 27, 2008 More info about public lecture. Download flyer about public lecture.

Earl Slaughter photographed by Joe Rodriguez

14th Annual Gender and Sexuality Speaker Janice Tanaka Screenings and events open to the public: April 14, 2008 Download flyer with more info.

Swimming in Air, Work in progress

Capturing the raw power and defiant creativity of a home-grown hip-hop movement, the award-winning documentary INSIDE THE CIRCLE follows Josh, Omar and Romeo as they struggle to keep dance at the center of their lives.

When: Monday May 12, 10 pm

With director Marcy Garriott, B-Boy Romeo Navarro, and soundtrack musicians Adrian Quesada and Bavu Blakes in attendance.

Where: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Downtown - 320 E 6th Street

Admission only $2! Tickets and more info HERE.

Visit INSIDE THE CIRCLE.

The TIPI (Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute) and the UTFI (University of Texas Film Institute) are pleased to announce that they will be sponsoring UT undergraduate or graduate students in their participation in the U-Frame International Video Festival in Porto, Portugal. Travel expenses will be covered for five UT students whose work is selected for the festival. This Festival will take place October 1-5 2008 and is organized by UP (University of Porto - Portugal) in partnership with UDC (University of Coruña - Spain).

The purpose of the Festival is not only to acknowledge and celebrate the quality of student work in this field, but also to encourage applicants to push the boundaries of the short film genre by incorporating emerging technologies in special categories such as ‘Light Media’ (films made with mobile phones) and ‘Second Life’ (films produced in a virtual environment).

Pre-registration deadline May 15th, 2008.
Complete Call for Entries deadline May 31st, 2008.

Go to U-Frame’s site.
Download complete info and instructions.
Go to Preregistration form.
Download Call for Entries form.

More Calls for Entries.

Jessica Diaz (pictured with her mom and son)
photo by Donna DeCesare

In conjunction with the current exhibition “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition, photojournalist Donna DeCesare, Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at The University of Texas at Austin, presents “Destiny’s Children: L.A. Gangs in Post-war El Salvador.”

When: Thursday, May 8, 7 P.M.
Where: Ransom Center (21st & Guadalupe)
Free limited seating.

Download flyer with more info.
Visit Donna’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
Visit Eli’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
More about the Harry Ransom Center and the “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition.

Documentary Screenings

Full Calendar of RTF Screenings

$500 Grand Prize to the person who creates the “7th Episode!”

In FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, Jennifer Fox lays bare her own life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. In six episodes, Fox travels around the world to understand how she fits into the greater female experience.

But the first six episodes are only one woman’s experience.

FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN
wants you to…
Make Your 7th Episode!
New Deadline: May 30, 2008

Download flyer.
Visit FLYING website.

The 2009 P.O.V. Call for Entries is underway!

P.O.V., public television’s premier showcase for independent nonfiction film and video, seeks programs from all perspectives to showcase in its annual national PBS series. All non-fiction subjects, styles and lengths are welcome.

Submit your film for consideration for the 2009 broadcast season.
Visit the complete submission guidelines and online submission form.

More info at P.O.V.

The arrival deadline for submissions is Friday, June 27, 2008.

More Calls for Entries.

Shara Lange’s thesis project The Way North / La Voie du Nord has been forwarded to the second stage of the Student Academy Awards judging for Region II in the Documentary Category.

The film is screening in Austin on May 14th, as part of AFS’ Texas Doc Tour.
When: 7pm at the Alamo Ritz (320 E. 6th St.).

Austin Film Society screening info.
More info about The Way North.
More about Shara and her work.

With co-director Dan Sturman in attendance!

The Robert S. Strauss Center’s International Security Film Series invites you to a
screening of the award-winning 2007 documentary film Nanking.

When: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 7:00 pm
Where: ACES Avaya Auditorium

Nanking documents the massacres and atrocities that Imperial Japan’s army committed in China’s capital city during the winter of 1937-38—an event that roils Sino-Japanese relations to this day. Amidst widespread killings, rapes, looting, and arson, a small group of Westerners established a safety zone that saved tens of thousands of Chinese. Nanking has won awards at the Sundance, Hong Kong, and Heartland Film Festivals.

Admission is free but on a first-come, first-served basis.
This movie is rated “R” for violence. Audience members under 17 will not be admitted without an adult or guardian present.

Download more info.
More about Orange Revolution.
More about the Robert S. Strauss Center.
More about the Center’s International Security Film Series.

The Harry Ransom Center will present “Adentro Hacia Fuera de El Salvador Inside Out,” a photographic exhibition of images taken by School of Journalism associate professor of photography Donna DeCesare. Exhibition dates: April 17 - August 3, 2008.

A continuation of the Harry Ransom Center’s “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition, “Adentro Hacia Fuera de El Salvador Inside Out,” features a selection of over 30 images by Donna, an award-winning documentary photographer, and numerous press clippings showing journalistic publication of her images. The exhibit starts by covering the end of El Salvador’s civil war, notably the murder of six Jesuit priests and the guerilla offensive in San Salvador in 1989 — events that increased international pressure for the peace accords. Donna’s images then form two narratives that trace the tragedy of youth violence from its origins in Los Angeles, where the Salvadoran diaspora community forms the second largest Salvadoran “city” in the world, and back to El Salvador. The first story follows Jessica Diaz (pictured above with her mom and son) as she attempts to break the vicious circle of violence trapping her family. The second story follows Edgar Bolaños, whose mother sends him back to El Salvador, naively believing he will be safe from the world of gangs that killed his brother in Los Angeles.

Professor Eli Reed is one of the photographers in the historical show “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera.” Eli has one image in the show and a large special report done by the San Francisco Examiner where he was working at the time.

The exhibit’s opening will take place in coordination with the conference “Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years after the El Salvador Peace Accords.” The conference, which brings together a multidisciplinary group of academics, activists, artists and policy-makers to explore the relationship between the local and the global, as well as the economic and the political, takes place April 17th and 18th on UT’s campus. Click on image to right for more information.

Visit Donna’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
Visit Eli’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
More about the conference “Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace.”
More about the Harry Ransom Center and the “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition.