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UCSB English, Dance and Black Studies Professor Stephanie Batiste lead a post-screening Q&A with world-renowned movement duo Charles “Lil Buck” Riley and Jon Boogz in UCSB's Pollock Theater about their careers and Netflix documentary “Move.” The duo seeks to give a voice to the voiceless and use movement to heal painful emotions, offering their audiences a story within their dance.
Ian Kellett, a UC Santa Barbara professor co-leads the Coastal Media Project. It’s a nine-week, 12-credit intensive summer course focused on environmental media production and documentary studies, offered through UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center. It combines a passion for film with environmentalism as students adventure through nature, telling meaningful stories.
Filmmaker and director Persis Karim visited UC Santa Barbara for a screening of her film The Dawn is Too Far, hosted by the Center for Middle East Studies. The film details how art serves as a cultural creative outlet for many Iranian immigrants who moved to America.
Cinema sound editor Javier Umpierrez joined UCSB Film and Media Studies professor Greg Siegel for a post-screening discussion on the 2021 fantasy mystery film Memoria, which was the inaugural feature of “Panic!,” a fall series presented by UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center. Umpierrez spoke about his role in Memoria’s sound design and the film’s portrayal of bodies and locations recording history.
As part of its “Storytelling for the Screen” series, the Carsey-Wolf Center hosted queer and Native American director, writer, and producer Erica Tremblay for a post-screening conversation about her film, “Fancy Dance” with moderator Lisa Parks, a professor in UCSB’s Film and Media Studies department.
UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center hosted the filmmakers Valerio Ciriaci and Izaak Liptzin to discuss their film Stonebreakers. The speakers talked about the protests surrounding the Columbus monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement and finding new ways to memorialize history.
UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center hosted Cuban writer-director Miguel Coyula and actress Lynn Cruz to discuss their 2021 film Corazón Azul. The filmmakers spoke about the challenges they faced over the decade it took to produce the film, specifically, government censorship in Cuba.
The Carsey-Wolf Center invited a panel last week to talk about film criticism and the cultural impact of film writing in the media today. Panelists discussed the affects of the streaming model and new media platforms on the landscape of film reviews and criticism
UC Santa Cruz film professor Shelley Stamp said that the 1944 film noir classic “Gaslight” exposed sexual and psychological abuse in relationships and in Hollywood. She spoke at a “Classic” series screening hosted by UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center.
If journalism is a first draft of history, then documentary is probably a second or third draft, says award-winning Filipino American documentary filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz. But people should experience documentary as cinema, not as a historical account, she told a UC Santa Barbara audience following a recent Carsey-Wolf Center screening of her 2020 documentary A Thousand Cuts.
Experts from universities across the globe converged at UC Santa Barbara last weekend for a three-day conference—Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder—to celebrate the centenary of the birth of acclaimed Indian author, graphic artist, and filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Speakers sang Ray’s praises, sharing discoveries they’ve made about his life and how he inspired them.
Shortly before the American theatrical release of Lebanese writer and director Oualid Mouaness’ film “1982,” he sat down with UC Santa Barbara chair of Global Studies Paul Amar to discuss the film and his country. Mouaness said he hopes his portrayal of the 1982 Lebanese War will humanize battle for audiences unfamiliar with the realities of fighting. It did that for UCSB student Colleen Coveney, who describes her reaction in this article.
The current golden age of international television offers an opportunity for more diversity on the screen, television executive Rick Rosen told a student audience at a recent Pollock Theater screening of an episode of HBO's limited series Scenes from A Marriage. It was part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s “Global” screening series.
South African film director Enver Samuel produced a documentary on the 1988 assisination of South African anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September, Murder in Paris: The Assassination of Dulcie September. In a post-screening discussion of the film , a panel of UCSB professors and visiting NYU scholar Leonard Cortana, focused on sexism as a factor that prevented September from receiving proper police protection and due justice after her murder.
UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center hosted a virtual roundtable discussion titled Television in the Age of Pandemic about the changing landscape of entertainment in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political tensions in 2020. The panel included media experts from UC Irvine, CUNY Staten Island, Cornell, and University of Alabama.
This summer, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Department of Film and Media Studies collaborate to create a new screenwriting course for students, Advanced Television Writing. The course will be broken up into two sections and will take place over the span of six weeks. The course aims to teach students how to create both a television script bible and a pilot screenplay.
Intern Noe Padilla sat down with the director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, Patrice Petro, to get a better understanding of the course.
New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis and Art House Convergence managing director Alison Kozberg say that art house film makers and large film production companies will continue to prioritize streaming over in-person moviegoing once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. They spoke at a recent Carsey-Wolf Center virtual event: "Moviegoing in the Age of COVID-19.
Though Carsey Wolf Center is unable to hold in-person film screenings this quarter due to COVID-19, post-film conversations with media experts from past screenings are available online. Catch up on previous discussions about filmmaking as Pollock Theater showcases past events as a weekly “Series Spotlight.”
UC Santa Barbara students Alexander Shuryepov and Mitchka Saberi have proven that with passion, dedication and support, almost anything is possible. Their short-feature film, Mother of Chernobyl, originally produced for UCSB’s GreenScreen program and released in the spring of 2019, was an official selection at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has won two major awards, and is going on to Moscow.
Production Designer Michael Bricker visited UC Santa Barbara’s Pollock Theater to discuss how his use of cinematography and set design shaped the plot and aesthetic behind Netflix’s original series, Russian Doll.
