On Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00 PM Donna DeCesare will show a short illustrated autobiographical piece about her work in Latin America and will give examples from different bodies of work of her process of collaboration, earning trust and ethical issues that emerge when documenting children and communities that are stigmatized or at risk. Donna [...]
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The Center for Womens and Gender Studies, The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and the UT Documentary Center invites everyone to attend a screening of Lioness followed by a Q&A with the director Meg McLagan. About the Director: Meg McLagan is a documentary filmmaker and cultural anthropologist. She is the co-director and co-producer with [...]
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Bradley has made a cinematic career documenting oddball Americana, strange sub-cultures, and homegrown rock stars. Post art school and somewhat damaged, he began drinking moonshine and filming with legendary bluesman R.L. Burnside to make his first movie “Hill Stomp Hollar” (SXSW) in 1999. He has since directed 8 feature-length films, including 7 documentaries, a concert [...]
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The SADDLE UP Documentary Showcase is a sampling of new non-fiction films from the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT-Austin. From discarded toy concerts to great-grandmas, cockroach therapy to art therapy, the program features films that push the documentary form in creative, narrative and audio-visual ways. PLEASE NOTE THE DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 1:30. Narrative screenings are [...]
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Trained at Yale and the American Film Institute Conservatory, filmmaker Peter Esmonde spent far too long in NYC and LA working at various tasks in the film industry: associate producer, writer, researcher, story analyst, assistant editor, sound editor, etc. etc. After toiling during the 1990s as a producer at Discovery Channel, Esmonde found himself targeted [...]
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One MA student in the UT Department of Journalism will be selected to receive support funding to defray travel and expenses associated with a photojournalism master’s thesis project, for work to be completed during summer 2009. ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONCIALLY TO APPLY: Please email the UT Documentary Center the following items. 1) A [...]
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Chris Garcia, Austin-Statesman film critic featured the following Austin made documentaries in his SXSW “Movies Worth Your Time” pick list. As Chris says, “A jaw-loosening volume of non-fiction movies by young local filmmakers graces this year’s fest, heralding a new wave of Austin documentarians, many of whom come straight from the Radio-Television-Film department at the [...]
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