Ben Feigin ’97: In Memoriam The Department of Film and Media Studies is deeply saddened by the passing of Ben Feigin, 1997 UCSB alumni, who, amongst many other accolades and credits, was Executive Producer of “Schitt’s Creek.” The final season received an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy … Continued
Pujita Guha, a PhD student in our program, has received one of Europe’s most prestigious and generous arts awards, the Bikubenfonden Vision Exhibition Award. As one of the founders of The Forest Curriculum, she will be collaborating with the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and Tunisian curator Aziza Harmel through 2025 on the project Hosting … Continued
McNamara is the co-creator and will serve as showrunner. The department offers their congratulations on this marvelous accomplishment. For more information see: https://variety.com/2022/global/asia/disney-largest-australia-production-slate-1235269682/ “The Artful Dodger” is an international premium character drama set in 1850s Australia. It is a well-known and much-loved story, with a twist. Across eight episodes, the scripted series explores the adult … Continued
Stephen Borunda has won the Graduate Student Essay Prize conferred by the Media and the Environment SIG of SCMS for his essay, “A Body Downwind of the Atomic Attack at Trinity: Mediations of Atomic Coloniality in Nuevo México.” SIG co-chairs Amy Rust and Meghan McDonald write that the judges — Jennifer Peterson, Carter Soles, and … Continued
Tinghao Zhou is involved in the production of a new short film entitled Hair Tie, Egg, Homework Books (Tou sheng, ji dan, zuo ye ben) (Directed by Runxiao Luo, 15 min). The film was selected into the official Orizzonti program of last year’s Venice International Film Festival and it’s being included in the Women Taking Charge program at the … Continued
Ross Melnick and Allison Anders are interviewed in a new feature length documentary entitled Only in Theaters (Directed by Raphael Sbarge 94 min). The film is about Laemmle Theatres and the precarious future of theatrical moviegoing at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday, March 5th at 7:20pm. For a trailer related to the film, see: https://youtu.be/1DFTlVoAwQo … Continued
Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Felando as the new editor of Short Film Studies journal, edited by Intellect Publishers. Dr. Felando is an instructor in the Department of Film and Media Studies. For further information about the journal, see: https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies
For more information on the UCSB Site Campus officials continue to work closely with the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and with the Office of the President to provide our community with the most current information regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic. The university has in place a COVID-19 working group and a COVID-19 response … Continued
Subversive films have been a feature of cinema since the Lumiere brothers amazed audiences in the late 19th century. Today, in an age of upheaval that has so many of us on edge, we need films that tweak our social and political norms. Now, just in time, UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center (CWC) is presenting … Continued
The Department of Film and Media Studies University of California, Santa Barbara April 9th, 2021 Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng. The Department of Film and Media Studies conveys our solidarity and shared grief with our Asian and … Continued