RTF End of Semester Screenings

Documentary Screenings
Sunday, May 11th, Advanced Documentary (366K/Diane Zander Mason) and Intro to Documentary (343/Karen Kocher), 3pm in CMB 4.122
Full Calendar of RTF Screenings

New Deadline: Flying 7th Episode Contest

$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 [...]

Call for Entries: POV Broadcast Season 2009

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 [...]

RTF MFA Student Shara Lange’s Film The Way North Receives Honors

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 [...]

Nanking Screening Presented by the Strauss Center International Security Film Series

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 [...]

Donna DeCesare and Eli Reed’s Work on Display at the HRC

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 [...]

Call for Entries: LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph

The LOOK3 Photo Workshops held June 7-12, 2008 in Charlottesville, VA is accepting submissions for 3 tuition-free slots reserved for students at accredited 2 or 4 year colleges and universities. They request that students submit exactly 10 images of a current or recent photography project they are working on and a short write-up of [...]

Juan González, Carnegie Distinguished Lecturer, to Speak at UT

“News Media Ownership and Its Impact on Coverage of Race and Ethnicity”
Author/investigative journalist Juan González is a columnist for the New York Daily News and a co-host of Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

Date: Friday, April 18
Time: 12 Noon to 1 p.m.
Place: CMA 3.120
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the School of Journalism, with a [...]

EUIC Summer School on Cinema and Human Rights

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation is happy to announce the fourth session of the Summer School on Cinema and Human Rights.
It will take place in Venice - Lido from 21 August to 10 September 2008.
The objective of the School is to explore the use of cinema as an instrument for enhancing [...]

RTF Alum John Moore Honored for Work - See Him at UT

Alum John Moore, who recently was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International, will speak at UT! John will discuss his career as a photojournalist covering South Asia and the Middle East for Getty Images.
When: Monday, April 21, 6-8 PM
Where: LBJ Room, CMA 5.160
John’s accolades include: Photojournalist of the [...]