Sebastian
Burke Wins Steck Award for The Creative Process The Steck Award recognizes the best
senior thesis completed at UCSC in any discipline with
a $1000 prize. Sebastian is the first Film &
Digital Media student to receive this most prestigious
honor.
Congratulations to Sebastian and Larry Andrews, his
faculty advisor, for an outstanding achievement!
Peter Limbrick Honored Due to his exemplary service and support
to the students and community of Porter College and
UCSC, Peter Limbrick was honored with a Porter Faculty
Advisor Award for 2007. Thank you for your contributions
to our community and congratulations on this much-deserved
recognition.
Metavid Continues DANM students, Michael Dale and Abram
Sterm, and faculty member, Warren Sack, receive funding
to continue their MFA project, Metavid,
here at UCSC.
Congratulations
to the following students, recipients of a 2007 Dean's
Undergraduate Award for outstanding achievement in Film
& Digital Media.
Sebastian Burke (sponsor:
Lawrence Andrews) for "The Creative Process"
a film on physicist Richard Feynman and his perspective
on the nuclear bomb.
Gavin Williamson (sponsor:
Shelley Stamp) for a student-directed seminar covering
Alternative American Film,1969-1975.
Sharon
Daniel's "Public Secrets" Selected as an Official
Honoree for Webby Awards
The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work
that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into
the Webby Awards. With over 8,000 entries received from
all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding
accomplishment for Professor Daniel and her team!
UCSC Alum
Tamara Maloney Screens at the Asian American Film Festival
Tamara Maloney (Film & Digital Media '97) screens
her co-writen "American Zombie" at San Francisco's
25th
Asian American Film Festival. Maloney co-wrote "American
Zombie" - a fictional documentary about a group
of high-functioning revenants and their struggles to
gain acceptance in human society - with another former
Santa Cruzan, Rebecca Sonnenshine.
Read the Santa Cruz Sentinel article...
UCSC Alums up for Academy
Awards
Two UCSC alums will compete for Oscars at the 79th
annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 25.
Steve Mirrione has been nominated in the film editing
category for Babel, and David Arata was tapped for best
adapted screenplay for the film Children of Men.
UCSC Alums Win Honors
in American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Nate Edelman (a 2006 graduate of Porter College with
a B.A. in cinema and theater studies) and Matt Golad
(a film and digital media major at Cowell College) received
honors in the fourth annual American
Zoetrope Screenplay Contest for work they completed
in film and digital media lecturer Natasha V’s
screenwriting class last year. American Zoetrope is
Francis Ford Coppola's motion picture production company,
and the contest’s aim is “to seek out and
encourage compelling film narratives, and to introduce
the next generation of great screenwriters to today's
leading production companies and agencies.”
Nate Edelman was a semifinalist for his script "Scavengers
of County Hell," and Matt Golad was a quarterfinalist
with "The Sutterman Bill." These first-time
screenwriters were competing in a pool of 2,500 entries.
Aaron Platt nominated
for 2007 Independent Spirit Award
UCSC alum, Aaron Platt (Film & Digital Media 2003)
has received a nomination for "Best Cinematography"
from the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards for his work
on Cam Archer's (Film & Digital Media 2003) feature
"Wild Tigers I Have Known." The film premiered
at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was executive
produced with the help of writer/director Gus Van Sant.
Many people would refer to theIndependent Spirit Awards
as the "Oscars" for independent film across
the country. Congradulations Aaron and Cam!
In Cupboards of Curiosity (Duke University Press 2006)
rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding
the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks,
memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera. Focusing on women
who worked during the silent-film era, Hastie reveals
how female stars, directors, and others appropriated
personal or “domestic” cultural forms not
only to publicize their own achievements but also to
reflect on specific films and the broader film industry.
Whether considering Colleen Moore’s thirty-six
scrapbooks or Marlene Dietrich’s eccentric encyclopedia
of Hollywood information, Hastie emphasizes how these
women spoke for themselves—as collectors, historians,
critics, and experts—often explicitly contemplating
the role their writings and material objects would play
in subsequent constructions of history.
Isabel Reichert and "Artists,
Inc."
F&DM Lecturer Isabel Reichert and her family are
profiled in a cover story of the East Bay Express, called
"Artists, Inc." As the tag line says, "When
a family goes corporate, art consumes life." Read
the article...
UC Santa Cruz film scholar
B. Ruby Rich chairs panel at Sundance Film Festival
Film scholar B. Ruby Rich will chair a panel discussion
at the Sundance Film Festival about how the counterculture
has changed since the 1960s.
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