Film Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz | Ranked one of the Top 10 Film Programs in the US | BA | SocDoc MFA | PhD

Joined October 2017
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Applications for our MFA program in Social Documentation are due next week!
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
16 Dec 2022
(1/3) 🧵The official UC Santa Cruz Twitter handle will be dark for the foreseeable future. We are concerned about recent changes that are allowing for the increased spread of misinformation and hate speech, in opposition to our campus values and Principles of Community.
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
15 Dec 2022
It's UC Santa Cruz's top 10 news stories of 2022! This year we fully sequenced a human genome, earned the Seal of Excelencia, discovered new galaxies using the James Webb Telescope, honored civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and more. 💫 Read our full list: bit.ly/3W0Xz11
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
NEWS: @LibnOfCongress Carla Hayden has announced the annual selection of 25 films to be inducted into the #NatFilmRegistry. Each was chosen for its cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. Full list: go.loc.gov/3SSz50M36xQ
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
Closing soon! Applications for the #Predoctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship close on December 15, 2022 at 5pm EST. Apply now! #PhDs #ScDs #Leadership #PhDChat ow.ly/lyll50LNVvm
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🌟Congratulations to former F DM Chair & Professor Emeritus Rick Prelinger @footage, recipient of the @AMIAnet Silver Light Award recognizing "outstanding career achievement in moving image archiving."🌟
9 Dec 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 AMIA Award recipients! Rick Prelinger, Silver Light Award; Teague Schneiter, O'Farrell Award; Manny Wheeler, Alan Stark Award; and, Johan Oomen, Advocacy Award. Awards will be presented December 19th.
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Applications for our Critical Practice PhD program are due tomorrow!
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
2 Dec 2022
This month's Docalogue is about Hannah Jayanti's speculative documentary Truth or Consequences (2020). Come check out what Greg Cohen and Xiaolu Wang have to say about the film at docalogue.com/truth-or-conse…, then stick around and tell us what you think!
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PhD student Hannah Jayanti’s documentary, TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, is featured this month on ⁦@docaloguedocalogue.com/
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
6 Dec 2022
UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, housed in the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, has been assisting those seeking asylum in the United States and fighting back against the controversial Title 42 immigration policy. @RCAucsc bit.ly/3We1x6j
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🌟Prof @peter_limbrick with his award-winning book ARAB MODERNISM AS WORLD CINEMA at the Middle East Studies Association conference #MESA2022.🌟
We love seeing authors at #MESA2022! @peter_limbrick stopped by to pose with his award-winning book ARAB MODERNISM AS WORLD CINEMA, which explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi. Comes see it at the UC Press booth!
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Thank you to my film professors at UC Santa Cruz for showing me ‘Jeanne Dielman’ way back when. This is not a movie you watch casually. Akerman essentially crafted a masterpiece about the ritualistic horrors of traditional gender role conformity by defying conventional filmmaking
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🎞 Not to be missed: retrospective of films by Prof Irene Lusztig, streaming now ⁦@cryptofiction⁩ 🎞 vimeo.com/ondemand/lusztigre…

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F DM doctoral student Shirin Towfiq joins renowned Iranian multi-media artists for the Eyes On Iran installation at Four Freedoms Park facing the United Nations in NYC in support of removing Iran from the UN's Commission on the Status of Women. #WomenLifeFreedom
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UC Santa Cruz alum and Distinguished Banana Slug Awardee in the Arts Rick Carter! @ucscArtsDiv
25 Nov 2022
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ Production Design is Invisible Art variety.com/2022/artisans/aw…
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🌟Congratulations to Dr. Arturo Delgado Pereira who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "WE WOULD STRIKE: DOCUMENTARY BEYOND REPRESENTATION IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL SPANISH TOWN."🌟
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Film Digital Media UC Santa Cruz retweeted
21 Nov 2022
To our LGBTQ community members, let us be clear: we see you, we believe in you, and we are a better university because of you. Read our full campus message on the tragic events that occurred in Colorado Springs, CO and access campus resources: bit.ly/3tMtS7x
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🌟Congratulations to Dr. Yulia Gilichinskaya @fictionalizer who successfully defended their doctoral dissertation "Geographies of Settler Innocence: Atlas of Decolonization."🌟
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