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April 2018

Script To Screen: GET OUT

Thursday, April 5, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Get Out

In Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out (2017), a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate and becomes ensnared in a series of terrifying events. Photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) travel upstate to visit her parents Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly-accommodating behavior as a nervous attempt to respond to their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead Chris…

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Media in the Americas

Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 8:00 am - Sunday, April 29, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Media In The Americas

https://youtu.be/fTTno8D-b2E

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June 2018

Greenscreen 2018 Film Premiere

Thursday, June 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Greenscreen2018

GreenScreen 2017 trailer from Carsey-Wolf Center on Vimeo.

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September 2018

Shakespeare on Film: Hamlet

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hamlet

Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) is celebrated for dramatizing the turmoil of its central character through means of expression unique to cinema.  Borrowing conventions both from German cinema of the 1920s and from contemporaneous classical Hollywood cinema, the film streamlines the play in order to foreground Hamlet’s subjectivity, written largely in the gloomy recesses of Elsinore. Adapted and directed by its star, Olivier’s film remains a touchstone both in the cinematic treatment of Hamlet and in the history of Shakespeare on film. Mark Rose (English, UCSB)…

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October 2018

In the Last Days of the City

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
In the Last Days of the City

In Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City (2016), Khalid Abdalla plays a filmmaker from downtown Cairo who struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while the world changes around him—from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Friends send him footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tactile hold of cities, and the meaning of homeland. Shot in the two…

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Harlan County, USA

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Harlan County USA

This film screening is part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective. In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners refuse the labor contract. Once the miners start to strike, the owners of the mine respond by hiring scabs to fill the jobs of the regular employees. The strike, which lasts more…

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November 2018

Sound of Music

Saturday, November 3, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sound of Music

The Carsey-Wolf Center is proud to present beloved musical The Sound of Music (1965) in stunning digital projection. The film was adapted from a 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, and based on a memoir by Maria von Trapp. The story of aspiring nun Maria (Julie Andrews) and her appointment as governess to the seven von Trapp children, her romance with the widowed Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), and their flight from Austria in the wake of the rise of…

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RBG

Monday, November 5, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
RBG

At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG (2018) explores Ginsburg’s life and career through interviews, public appearances and archival material. Betsy West and Julie Cohen (co-directors) will join moderator Jeannine DeLombard (English, UCSB) for…

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Frankenstein Afterlives: Spirit of the Beehive

Thursday, November 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Spirit of the Beehive

A masterpiece of Spanish cinema, Víctor Erice’s 1973 directorial debut The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) offers an allegory of life after General Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War. The film tells the story of Ana, a young girl in a remote village whose experience at a traveling film presentation of Frankenstein sends her into the Castilian countryside in search of her own monster. Released near the end of the Franco era, the film offers…

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January 2019

Point of No Return

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Point of no Return

Soaring at 28,000 feet without a drop of fuel, nothing is predictable: not the weather, not the technology, and certainly not the fate of a man, alone for five days in a fragile, first-of-its-kind aircraft with nothing but ocean below. Point of No Return takes you behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world, where two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible. Their aim is not…

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February 2019

Across the Universe

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Across the Universe

With the hallucinatory visual style of Revolver, the poppy sentiment of A Hard Day’s Night, and a songbook that spans the Beatles’ discography, Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe (2007) reimagines the Beatles music as the soundscape for art, revolution, and love in the 1960s. British dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels from Liverpool to the US in search of his father, but ends up falling in love with a young upper-class American, Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). The film pays tribute to…

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March 2019

Beatles Revolutions: Yellow Submarine

Saturday, March 2, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Yellow Submarine

Set in the psychedelic paradise of Pepperland, Yellow Submarine (1968) pits Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band against the Blue Meanies, enemies of fun and music. Director George Dunning and art director Heinz Eidelmann employ a constantly-shifting array of ’60s pop art settings in this revolutionary animated feature, which has inspired directors ranging from Terry Gilliam to John Lasseter. On its 50th anniversary, the film retains its ability to dazzle from its opening scene to the sing-a-long final credits. Artist…

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Floyd Norman: An Animated Life

Thursday, March 7, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Floyd Norman

Invoking the energetic and defiant spirit of its main subject, Floyd Norman: An Animated Life offers a captivating tour of the sixty-year career of its eponymous animator and writer. Dubbed by peers as “animation’s Forrest Gump,” Norman had a remarkable professional journey that included time at Disney (from Sleeping Beauty to Mulan), Hanna-Barbera (The Smurfs), and Pixar (Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.). Floyd Norman will join moderator Vilna Bashi Treitler (Black Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.

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April 2019

Shakedown

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Shakedown

Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown (2018) chronicles the “high-femme performances” in the Los Angeles-based underground black-lesbian strip club Shakedown. The New Yorker claims that “Shakedown is neither an experimental art film nor an anthropology of gay, black femme performance in L.A. Rather, Weinraub sought to capture a moment and turn it into cinema.”The film chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organizers in the early 2000s, revealing that Shakedown was more than a strip club; as one…

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Script to Screen: Game of Thrones

Saturday, April 6, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Dragon and the Wolf

Based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO’s epic Game of Thrones is notable for its high production values, expansive cast and engaging backstory.  The story of a succession war between powerful families is set against a genre-subverting backdrop of gritty realism. Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones has become a widespread cultural phenomenon. In anticipation of the start of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones (which begins on Sunday, April…

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Short Films from the Viet Film Fest: Diaspora, Family, Memory

Thursday, April 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Short Films from the Viet Film Fest: Diaspora, Family, Memory

Presented in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, this program of six shorts by filmmakers from the Vietnamese diaspora includes documentary, narrative, and experimental films. Like this year’s UCSB Reads text The Best We Could Do, these short films take up questions of Vietnamese heritage, family, and memory. This selection of films was curated in cooperation with the Viet Film Fest. Filmmakers Kady Le, Lan Nguyen, and Quyên Nguyen-Le will join moderator erin Khuê Ninh (Asian American Studies, UCSB) for a…

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New Waves: Rome, Open City

Thursday, April 18, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Rome, Open City

The production of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta, 1945) began only months after the end of the Nazi occupation of Rome and the arrival of Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War II. The film triangulates the tension of the German occupation through a rich cast of characters: children, landlords, clergy, military men, unwed mothers, cabaret girls, collaborators, resistance fighters, and subversives of all kinds, and of course the city itself. Filmed with both professional and non-professional…

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New Waves: Hiroshima Mon Amour

Thursday, April 25, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Hiroshima Mon Amour

Past and present, trauma and eros, the personal and the collective all intermingle in this groundbreaking film from French New Wave director Alain Resnais and visionary novelist Marguerite Duras. Centering on a short, intense affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) unfolds in a rebuilt and modernized Hiroshima. As the central couple explore their powerful attraction, their trysts are interrupted by memories of the war and the surrounding traces of atomic mass…

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Ghana’s Electric Dreams

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Ghana’s Electric Dreams

Ghana’s Electric Dreams presents the planning and wide-ranging impact of the Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. The film visits sites affected by the hydroelectric dam and by the broader vision of modernization that it represents. Historical footage and interviews with Ghanaians reveal the complexity and contradictions, unintended consequences, social inequities, rural/urban divides, and gender differences that underlie this confluence of energy, power, and creativity in the West African country. Rudo Sanyanga (International Rivers Network, Africa Program Director), R. Lane Clark (director/producer),…

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May 2019

Gulabi Gang

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Gulabi Gang

Gulabi Gang (2012) is set in the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India, a place of dust, oppression, and resistance. This film follows the Gulabi Gang, an unusual group of rural women led by the energetic and charismatic Sampat Pal. They travel long distances to fight for the rights of women and Dalits. Often they encounter apathy, corruption, and even ridicule. Sometimes whole villages connive against them to protect the perpetrators of violence. While we see Gulabi Gang members struggling against gender violence and state corruption,…

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New Waves: Red Sorghum

Saturday, May 18, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
New Waves: Red Sorghum

Directed by celebrated Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero) and based on Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan’s novel, Red Sorghum is a landmark in contemporary Chinese cinema and culture. The film blends the stories of three generations of a family with their region’s journey through feudalism, war, and revolution. After several years as a cinematographer, Zhang Yimou chose Mo Yan’s novel for his directorial debut. In the film, he crafts an evocative rural landscape, and lead actors…

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New Waves: Memories of Underdevelopment

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
New Waves: Memories of Underdevelopment

Based on Edmundo Desnoes’ novel and presented here in a new 4k restoration, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a fictional meditation on disillusionment in post-revolutionary Cuba. Left behind by his wife and family, the protagonist Sergio elects to remain in Havana following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, an historical moment that the film chooses to reflect on through Sergio’s unmoored, flâneur-like lifestyle and anomie. The Cuban capital engulfs Sergio and simmers beneath the social and political…

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New Waves: This is Not a Film

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
New Waves: This is Not a Film

In 2010, after Jafar Panahi was arrested and charged with making propaganda against the Iranian government, he was banned from making films or operating a camera for twenty years. In 2011 he made This is Not a Film, which was shot entirely in Panahi’s home, using the help of his friends, a camcorder, an iPhone, and the legal loopholes in his ban. The film debuted at Cannes after being smuggled there in a cake. With a playful charm, This is…

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June 2019

Graduation 2019

Sunday, June 9, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Graduation 2019

UCSB Film and Media Studies Graduation Recognition Ceremony Sunday, June 16, 2019 Starting at noon in the Pollock Courtyard Reserve a space now! RSVP joepalladino@ucsb.edu by June 1st.

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August 2019

Blue Horizons 2019 Film Premiere

Friday, August 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Blue Horizons 2019 Film Premiere

Join us for the premiere of several engaging and topical short films produced by students in the Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media. During this nine-week summer program, students learn elements that are essential to producing documentary films – from developing a film’s core idea and story, to thinking about its impact on its audiences, to the nuts-and-bolts of video production. After examining the critical issues of our region’s oceans and seashores, students develop their own stories and produce…

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October 2019

Special Effects: Mad Max: Fury Road

Tuesday, October 1, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Mad Maz Fury Road

With Kristen Whissel (Film and Media, UC Berkeley) The Carsey-Wolf Center is delighted to kick off its Special Effects series with George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Winner of major awards for art direction, visual effects, costumes, stunts, and makeup, Fury Road pulses with stunning design elements and unforgettable action set pieces. Set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland where fuel and water are scarce commodities, the film follows Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), who is captured and enslaved by the tyrannical Immortan Joe…

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Special Effects: The Wizard of Oz

Saturday, October 5, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wizard of Oz

With Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English and Film Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland), her house, and her dog Toto are whisked to the magical land of Oz. At the advice of a chorus of locals, they follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City in search of the infamous Wizard. En route they are joined by a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and…

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New Waves: This is Not a Film

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
This Is Not a Film

In 2010, after Jafar Panahi was arrested and charged with producing propaganda against the Iranian government, he was banned from making films or operating a camera for twenty years. In 2011 he made This is Not a Film, which was shot entirely in Panahi’s home, using the help of his friends, a camcorder, an iPhone, and the legal loopholes in his ban. The film debuted at Cannes after being smuggled into the festival inside a cake. With a playful charm,…

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People’s Republic of Desire

Thursday, October 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
People’s Republic of Desire

In a digital universe where live streamers earn up to $200K a month, can virtual relationships replace real-life human connection? People’s Republic of Desire (2018) follows two online stars who rise from obscurity to fame and fortune in China. The film journeys through their live streaming showrooms, which become gathering places for hundreds of millions of viewers, including wealthy patrons who lavish performers with digital gifts and poor migrant workers who worship them. The two subjects are brought together in…

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Knock Down the House

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Knock Down the House

At a moment of historic volatility in American politics, insurgent candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin decided to fight back and embarked on a journey that would change their lives and their country forever. Knock Down the House (2019) follows the grassroots campaigns of these four ambitious women as they challenge powerful incumbents in the 2018 congressional race. Despite their lack of political experience and corporate donations, these women work to redefine community values and…

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Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan

Since his ALS diagnosis in 2016, activist Ady Barkan and his family have struggled to keep up with insurance paperwork, doctors’ bills, and prescription drugs. Rather than diminish his voice, these experiences have emboldened Barkan to expand his initiatives in new directions. He co-founded the Be A Hero PAC, wrote an autobiography titled Eyes to the Wind, and launched himself into ambitious media projects. This event focuses on Barkan’s video short series Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan, which…

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November 2019

Meet John Doe

Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Meet John Doe

When D. B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an oil magnate with political ambitions, takes over a city newspaper and begins firing employees by the dozen, columnist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) fights back, penning a fake letter from a jobless “John Doe,” who in protest against the state of the world threatens to commit suicide by jumping off the City Hall roof. After the letter becomes the talk of the town, Mitchell and her editor hire a washed-up baseball player (Gary Cooper)…

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Two films from Caochangdi Workstation

Saturday, November 9, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Two films from Caochangdi Workstation

In 2010, pioneering Chinese filmmaker Wu Wenguang founded the Memory Project. Housed in the Caochangdi Workstation in an art district on the outskirts of Beijing, the project’s purpose is to teach documentary production skills to aspiring amateur filmmakers, who then travel to their familial villages to collect oral histories about some of the most tumultuous periods of the twentieth century, including the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution. To date, the Memory Project has collected over a thousand interviews and produced…

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Special Effects: They Shall Not Grow Old

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Special Effects: They Shall Not Grow Old

Drawing on period footage from England’s Imperial War Museum and BBC radio interviews with World War I soldiers, director Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) deploys state-of-the-art digital restoration technology to reanimate some of the world’s earliest war footage. Released in commemoration of the war’s centennial and dedicated to Jackson’s own grandfather who fought in the war, the film is an astonishing portal to the past that offers viewers a surprisingly intimate view of the everyday lives of…

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December 2019

Special Effects: Beetlejuice

Thursday, December 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beetlejuice

In Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988), Barbara and Adam Maitland (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) find themselves trapped as spirits haunting their old home after their untimely death in a car accident. To make matters worse, the residence has now been sold to the unbearable Deetze family (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder). When the Maitlands have little success in scaring the new residents away, they turn to rogue “bio-exorcist” Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), an unpredictable spirit whose “help” quickly turns…

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January 2020

Script To Screen: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Saturday, January 11, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Script To Screen: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Esteemed actor Tom Hanks brings cherished icon Mister Rogers back to the screen in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of Fred Rogers’ and journalist Tom Junod’s unlikely friendship. When he is tasked with profiling the children’s television pioneer, Junod (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys), a jaded magazine writer, must overcome his skepticism to learn about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America’s most beloved neighbor. Screenwriter and executive…

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Now, Voyager

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Now, Voyager

In Now, Voyager (1942), Boston heiress Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is the victim of a domineering mother (Gladys Cooper) and teeters on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She retreats to a sanitarium, where she is restored to health, sanity, and beauty by a psychiatrist (Claude Rains). Emerging from her retreat, she embarks on a sea cruise, where she falls in love with a handsome married man (Paul Henreid) whose family life has complications of its own. Based on a…

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TV at the Pollock: Deadwood

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Deadwood

When the richest gold strike in U.S. history thrusts South Dakota’s Black Hills into the center of the nation’s get-rich-quick dreams, a throng of restless misfits converge on the outlaw town of Deadwood. Created by David Milch, the critically-acclaimed series ran for three seasons, and featured a talented ensemble cast playing the town’s colorful inhabitants, many of them based on historical figures. The Carsey-Wolf Center is delighted to welcome actress Robin Weigert, who played Calamity Jane in the series, for…

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February 2020

TV at the Pollock: The Handmaid’s Tale

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Handmaid's Tale

Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale unfolds in Gilead, a totalitarian society set in a dystopian version of the US. Faced with environmental degradation and a plummeting birthrate, Gilead’s fundamentalist regime forces its few remaining fertile women into sexual servitude as “handmaids” for the ruling classes. The series centers on Offred (Elizabeth Moss), a handmaid determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and to find the daughter who was taken from her. The…

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TV at the Pollock: Dick Wolf: Writing Television Past, Present, and Future

Thursday, February 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Dick Wolf

The Carsey-Wolf Center is delighted to welcome television titan Dick Wolf to the Pollock Theater as part of the Center’s winter 2020 exploration of classic and contemporary television. Wolf will join Carsey-Wolf Center Director Patrice Petro for a discussion of the art of television storytelling and the evolution of his own writing, ranging from his early Emmy Award-nominated work for Hill Street Blues to the iconic pilot episode of his Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and beyond. This evening’s…

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¡Las Sandinistas!

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

¡Las Sandinistas! uncovers the stories of the women who shattered barriers by leading combat and forcing social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution and the ensuing US-backed Contra War. The film is centered around the personal journeys of Dora Maria Téllez, a young medical student who became a major Sandinista general, and four of her revolutionary allies. Together, the women overcome traditional gender barriers and subvert stereotypes to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country. ¡Las Sandinistas! reveals…

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TV at the Pollock: The West Wing and Veep

Thursday, February 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
Veep West wing

As a prelude to the Carsey-Wolf Center’s “Television, Politics, Publics” conference, the Center presents two iconic television shows that deeply explore contemporary US politics: The West Wing and Veep. We will screen season 6, episode 18 of The West Wing, “La Palabra,” and season 7, episode 7 of Veep, “Veep.” Award-winning executive producer/writer/director David Mandel (Veep) and writer/producer Eli Attie (The West Wing) will join moderator Patrice Petro for a post-screening discussion of the creation and legacy of these two programs. In each episode,…

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March 2020

Stars of Jazz

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Stars of Jazz aired weekly on KABC-TV in Los Angeles from June 25, 1956 to December 29, 1958, with additional national broadcasts on the ABC network. Hosted by musician and actor Bobby Troup, the series offered viewers the highest possible caliber of live jazz performers and performances. During the civil rights struggle, the series frequently presented and lauded African-American artists. To enhance the contemporary viewing and listening experience of this historic series, several original Stars of Jazz kinescopes were scanned…

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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
anthopocene

With Jennifer Baichwal (director/writer) A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2019) concludes a trilogy of films that began with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and continued with Watermark (2013). The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly ten years of analysis and investigation, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human…

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April 2022

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Thursday, April 21, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché tells the largely forgotten story of her rise from Gaumont secretary to her appointment as head of production a year later, and her illustrious 20-year career in France and in the United States, as the founder of her own studio and as writer,…

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September 2022

Film and Media Studies Orientation

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Film and Media Studies Orientation

During Orientation, you will hear from different staff and faculty in the Film and Media Studies department. They will go over what to expect in the major and opportunities that will arise during your time here. FAMST club leaders will also be in attendance at Orientation, so this is a great opportunity to hear what students with similar interests are doing and how you can get involved. Attending orientation will allow you to meet the professors you will have classes with…

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106 Pitches

Friday, September 30, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
106 Pitches UCSB

This challenging course offers students the opportunity to work together to produce a short film over 2 consecutive quarters. Four films are created, selected by a tribunal of industry professionals after scripts are delivered and projects have been pitched. Students who are keen to participate are then “hired” to fulfill a Core Role in one of the projects before crews “hit the ground running”. Unlike most classes, 106 provides 2 instructors who help crews through Pre-production, Production and Post before…

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June 2024

2024 UCSB FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATION RECOGNITION CEREMONY

June 16 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Class of 2024

download a pdf of the program View and download photos from the event. Graduation Recognition Ceremony June 16, 2024 Wishing You Success in the Future Welcoming Remarks & Departmental Address Jennifer Holt             Department Chair Student Address Shane Rockenstein Carlson Presentation of Awards: The Alexander Sesonske Prize: Presented by Professor Laila Shereen Sakr Recognizes writing and research capacity for student essays about film, television, and digital history, theory and criticism. The award is named after one of the…

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