The documentary short was shot in 360-degree video, a virtual reality-adjacent technique that puts the viewer in the center of the shot, and it explores Cornejo’s family’s Huarpe roots in what is now Argentina.
The annual e3 expo will be in person for the first time since 2019.
It’s All True Documentary Film Festival and the 21st Annual Emerson Film Festival highlighted the best in student films.
Professor and Chair of the Visual & Media Arts department Cristina Kotz Cornejo’s 360º documentary, the root is more important than the flower is featured in the Argentina media outlets Tiempo de San Juan and Si San Juan (both in Spanish).
Freedom or Death! is a first-person, chronological portrait of how a civil uprising in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2014 became a hybrid war with Russia that has had global ramifications.
The videos will be shared with students from the Ukrainian Film School (UFS) in Kyiv, who have had to scatter across Eastern Europe over the past month as Russian forces invaded the country.
Professors Jerald Walker and Kathryn Ramey join just 184 artists, scholars, writers, and scientists out of nearly 3,000 applicants to receive the prestigious grants.
Cook, McDuffie, Paine, and Reis, have influenced American culture through their contributions to TV, movies, radio, and more.
Kwan and Scheinert answered questions from students about the filmmaking process, finding creative inspiration, and the importance of finding and maintaining your voice in your projects.
Professor and founding director of the Center for Comedic Arts Martie Cook weighed in on comedian Chris Rock’s first comedy show after the Academy Awards last week, in which nominee Will Smith slapped him onstage after a joke about Smith’s wife.