Year: 2025
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Life In Sound: Porter Alum Cuauhtemoc Martinez featued in UCSC Voice
Cuauhtemoc Martinez with mentor and professor Gustavo Vázquez at Vázquez’s retirement celebration.
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Associate Professor Joseph Erb receives the Perry Aunko Indigenous Language Preservation Award
Taken from the Resilient Tulsa facebook page: This week, the City of Tulsa’s Greater Tulsa Area Indian Affairs Commission (GTAIAC) proudly hosted the 28th Annual Dream Keepers Awards Ceremony. Held during National Native American Heritage Month, the ceremony honors outstanding leaders in the Native American community who exemplify exceptional character, leadership, and dedication to public…
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YoungEun Kim Awarded the 2026 ACC Future Prize
The National Asian Culture Center (ACC) recently announced that artist YoungEun Kim, Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media, was awarded the 2026 ACC Future Prize. Established by the ACC, the ACC Future Prize is a strategic support initiative designed to nurture innovative and interdisciplinary artistic practices that envisage future societal values and potential.
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Dominic Goggins-Rendón Wins Outstanding Academic Advising Award
Dominic Goggins-Rendón, lead undergraduate advisor, Film & Digital Media, was recently the recipient of the 2024–25 Outstanding Academic Advising—New Advisor award. The $1,000 award is given to advisors who have worked three years or fewer in their role and can be used for professional development. Goggins-Rendón will now be moved forward into the nomination pool…
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Resonant Routes, Ocean Currents, Sino-Soundscapes: Chinese Opera & Transpacific World
A colloquium with Nancy Yunhwa Rao, PhD, Board of Governors Professor of Music, Rutgers University. Presented by Porter College, the Music Department, and the Film and Digital Media Department. This event is open to UCSC students, staff, and faculty only. Date: Monday, December 8, 2025Time: 1:30pm-3:00pmLocation: Music Center, Room 131 Chinese opera performers followed the…
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SHIMMERING (2025): A Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Matte Hewitt
Presented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR) and the American Indian Research Center (AIRC). Date: Friday, November 14, 2025Time: 4:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) Description: SHIMMERING (Matte Hewitt, 2025, 20 min) is an essay film poetically investigating creation, extraction, and second lives. Guided by the luminous figure of Hummingbird, SHIMMERING moves through place-based ways…
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Wednesday Night Cinema Society
Join us every Wednesday for an evening of films and videos, curated by our graduate students. Cinema Society meets every Wednesday during the quarter at 7pm in Communications 150 (Studio C). Check the FDM Events google calendar for specific dates.
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Decolonizing Surfing: A View From Morocco
Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Thursday, November 13Time: 5:30pm-7:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) Join us for a film screening featuring documentaries by Arté and Moroccan director Ilias El Faris, followed by a panel discussion exploring the history…
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“Familiar Touch” with Sarah Friedland
Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Mondau, October 6, 2025Time: 7:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) DESCRIPTION: Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable…
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Visiting Artist Series
Every quarter, we invite a visiting artist to meet with students, lead workshops, and hold a public screening of their work with Q&A. All Public Screenings will take place in the Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) For our 2025-26 Visiting Artist series, we present:
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Film and Digital Media Fall Welcome
Date: Monday, September 22, 2025, Time To Be AnnouncedLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Theater C) and via Zoom This is your opportunity to meet with faculty, learn about their research interests, and find out more about their courses for the year. An overview of the film and digital media program, including major requirements, will be given by…
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Film by Livia Perez, Film and Digital Media Lecturer, Receives LASA Award of Merit
M is for Mothers, directed by Livia Perez, has received the LASA Award of Merit in Film and will screen at LASA on Sunday, May 25 at 5:10 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the director. This tender and intimate documentary offers a poignant portrait of queer motherhood. Through delicate camerawork, it meditates on pregnancy,…