Alex Rivera

First Person Cinema - Alex Rivera

March 10, 2021

First Person Cinema Welcomes Alex Rivera - (Rescheduled for Wednesday night, 3/17) For borders to be enforced as sites of social and material control, there must always be an accompanying system of visual production. Today, that system includes drones, infrared cameras, biometrics, and more. For over twenty-five years Alex Rivera...

Nancy Schreiber

Q&A Session with Nancy Schreiber

Feb. 19, 2021

Join us March 10th at 7:30pm as we welcome Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber and Production Designer Jonah Markowitz for a discussion of the 2018 film MAPPLETHORPE.

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Student Award Showcase

Jan. 13, 2021

Spring 2021 Student Award Showcase On February 8th, at 7:00pm, join us in celebrating the winners of the Grillo award from the Fall 2020 production courses! Made possible with funds from the Arts and Cultural Enrichment Fee. Free admission. The Grillo awards are designed to encourage excellence in filmmaking and...

Actors Isiah Whitlock Jr, Norm Lewis, Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors, playing Vietnam War veterans in "Da 5 Bloods." The actors are consoling each other on the ground in a forrest

Shot on Film 2020

Dec. 23, 2020

Film is Dead? Think again… Shot on Film 2020* (16mm, Super 16, 35mm, 65mm, IMAX 15/70) *Pre-COVID 19 release schedule “Film has a quality that nothing else can duplicate… There’s a quality to emulsive print filmmaking, it’s like the highest level of an oil paint for an artist.” -Patty Jenkins...

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Alumni In Action: Kelsey Bollig

Dec. 21, 2020

Alumni in Action: Kelsey Bollig BFA, Film Studies (2015) What have you been involved in since graduating from CU? Everything. I immediately moved to San Francisco a month after graduation and worked as a photographer for two years. I used photography to get down to LA where I switched gears...

Still of Buster Keaton in "Sherlock Jr." (1924)

Course Highlights: Movies the Movies

Dec. 10, 2020

CINE 4004/ARTF 5004- Topics in Film Theory Cinephilia, Reflexivity… or “… Movies about the movies .” With Professor Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz This course examines some of the historical and theoretical implications of the practice of reflexivity in classical and contemporary cinema. Parting from the deconstructive works of Buster Keaton to contemporary...

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Laura Conway (MFA '20) to Have Film Premiere at Slamdance

Dec. 7, 2020

Laura Conway (MFA, 2020) Laura Conway's film The Length of Day , which was funded in part by a Grillo Award, will have its world premier at the 2021 Slamdance film festival. Tickets to the festival are free until December 31st! Get Tickets Here The Length of Day is a...

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Alumni In Action: Alana Murphy

Dec. 1, 2020

Alana Murphy (BFA, 2015) tells us a little about where she's been since graduating and what life is like working in the camera department on major productions.

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Q&A Session with Sean Bailey

Nov. 16, 2020

On November 13th, 2020, President of Production at Walt Disney Studios, Sean Bailey, held a live Q&A session with the University of Colorado. Hosted by the Chair of the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts (CINE), Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz. If you missed this event, you can watch the recording...

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CU CINE Makes Waves

Oct. 6, 2020

CU CINE Grads are shaking the Festivals Circuit! Recently, CU CINE alumni have had their films selected for film festival shows of national and international visibility. Bruce Tetsuya’s “In Wake of the Crashing Down" is an official selection for the Cannes Shorts FF and the Denver FF among others. https://dff.eventive.org/films/5f6a794ebdf3d100900417db...

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