The UT Documentary Center and Professor Emeritus Dina M Sherzer invite current UT Radio-TV-Film MFA students to apply for the Dina Sherzer Scholarship Award for Social Awareness. The Award recipient will receive $1500 to help fund his or her MFA documentary film project. To Apply: Submit a one-to-two page essay that briefly describes the social [...]
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2008 Doc Center scholarship recipient Graduate Student Mattie Akers is looking for crew members for her graduate thesis documentary. Seeking: assistant editor for graduate thesis documentary Date: Summer-Fall 09 Contact: Mattie Akers mattieakers@yahoo.com Affiliation: grad Description: Looking for someone to help me edit my thesis documentary, which consists of four shorts about the convergence of [...]
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KLRU presents an advance screening of Independent Lens’ Crips & Bloods: Made in America It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what’s at the root of [...]
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UT Radio-TV-Film Seniors, Sarah Garrahan and Daniel Hill will be screening their documentary Hleh-pai ndé: The Light Grey People as part of the Hecho en Tejas “Made in Texas” showcase at Cine Las Americas Hleh-pai ndé: The Light Grey People is the story of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, a Native American tribe indigenous [...]
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The 12th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival will take place in Austin, Texas, once again bringing the best of Latino and indigenous cinema. UT RTF MFA Alum John Fiege and current MFA student Marianela Vega Oroza are both competing in the Cine Las America Film Festival this year. Marianela Vega Oroza’s film Conversation II [...]
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CREEES, the Documentary Center, the POSCO Chair in Korean Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies present: The awarding winning documentary Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People The documentary will be screened followed by a Question and Answer period with director David Chung Synopsis: Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the [...]
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The University of Texas Documentary Center is proud to announce that one MFA and one upper-level undergrad in the UT Department of Radio-TV-Film will be selected to each receive a $4500 stipend for an internship in San Francisco, California during Summer 2009. The award recipients will work as interns at the Independent Television Service (ITVS) [...]
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The 12th annual United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) will take place on October 17-25, 2009 at Stanford University, California. This festival celebrates the power of international documentary films and videos dealing with human rights issues, environmental survival, protection of refugees, famine, homelessness, racism, disease control, women’s issues, children, universal education, and war and peace. [...]
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Wednesday April 8th the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition begins their Immigrant Rights Film Series. The first film is “Morristown: in the Air and Sun.” Date: April 8th Time: 8:00PM -10:00PM Place: MonkeyWrench Books 110 E. North Loop. Additional films in the series include: April 15th: Heather Courtney’s “Los Trabajadores/The Workers,” April 22nd: Tommy Davis’ “Mojados:Through [...]
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A former staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into documentary photography in the late 1990’s. Her long-term project Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace, was published in September 2005. She is the recipient of awards including the 2005 Alicia Patterson fellowship. She is the founder of The Aftermath [...]
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