click on image above to enlarge Announcement from P.J. Raval, UT RTF MFA grad: A film that I shot, TROUBLE THE WATER opens at the Regal Arbor Cinema this Friday for a week (come to a screening before heading out to your Halloween adventure!) Screening times: Friday Oct 31st – Tuesday Nov 4th: Trouble the [...]
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Journal of Information Ethics Call for Papers Documentary films combine “message” and “metaphor” to balance arguments (message) with narrative, visual effects, symbolic imagery, and score (metaphor). Ethical issues are crucial because documentary filmmakers use message and metaphor to make representations or mount arguments about subjects to persuade audiences of their views. The Journal of Information [...]
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click above to enlarge image Radio-TV-Film faculty member and Documentary Center co-director Nancy Schiesari along with KLRU-TV invite you to watch the televised premiere of Tattooed Under Fire. When: 9pm, Thursday, October 30th KLRU, Austin-area PBS Channel 18 Download official flyer (pdf). Visit Tattooed Under Fire‘s website. Visit Nancy’s Doc Ctr faculty page. More about [...]
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Radio-TV-Film and Documentary Center faculty member Anne Lewis, in coordination with Texas Folklife and the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) invite you to a free screening of this powerful and affecting documentary. Anne Lewis in attendance for post-screening Q&A, along with special guests, Historian Martha Cotera and Sociologist Nestor Rodriguez. When: Friday, October 24, 2008 [...]
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Vewd is proud to announce the first annual Student Documentary Photography Contest. Do you think that your work is ready for the world to see? Eligibility: This contest is open to any photographer who is a student enrolled at an educational institution, at any level [High School, College, University etc.] or has been enrolled within [...]
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The UT Documentary Center announces the first annual Arch Campbell Award for Creative Vision for the 2008-2009 school year. Eligibility: The award will go to support an undergraduate or graduate student documentary film project. The grantee must be enrolled in the Department of Radio-TV-Film for the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 semesters and will be [...]
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click on above image to enlarge The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, The Houston Russian Cultural Center-Our Texas, and the University of Texas Documentary Center present two events with distinguished filmmaker Sergei Miroshnichenko. Both events: Monday October 20th When: 2:00pm The Making of 21-Up Film clips and discussion with the filmmaker. Where: [...]
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Note changes to second screening below – the film is NO LONGER screening Thursday Oct. 23rd. The Road to Tlacotepec, directed by RTF MFA alum Berndt Mader, will be screening during the Austin Film Festival. When: Thursday, Oct. 16 at 9:30pm Where: The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E 6th Street and When: Monday, Oct. 20 [...]
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click on above image to enlarge Radio-TV-Film faculty member and Documentary Center co-director Ellen Spiro and Journalism and Documentary Center faculty member Donna DeCesare highly recommend the documentaryVisual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, a film by Eric Bricker, will be screening as part of the upcoming Austin Film Festival. Two screenings: 7pm Thurs. Oct [...]
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THE DRESSMAKERS, a feature-length documentary directed by RTF MFA Alum Shara Lange, contrasts the slow pace of artisanal clothes-making with the fast pace of the competitive textiles industry in Morocco, inviting a re-examination of the values represented by the clothing that people wear. Production began in Casablanca and Tangier, Morocco in 2008. They will soon [...]
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