CINE 198: Post Production Workflow is an essential workshop that will help you succeed in your CINE filmmaking courses and your future filmmaking career. We explore foundational editing skills, such as media management, transcoding, and how to create a workflow to accommodate various media types. This course is recommended to be taken in conjunction with or before CINE 270 or other Production A courses.
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The cinema studies professor brings the inspiration of Robert Redford’s movie institute to the classroom.
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Find Your Voice as a Producer: Learn from a Guest Producer and Guest Filmmakers!
Taught by Cinema Studies Career Instructor Alissa Phillips, CINE 426: The Art of Producing will feature lectures by a guest Producer–whose credits you will know–and additional talented guest filmmakers! Apply now for spring term 2024.
Applications are now closed.
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Cinema Studies is pleased to congratulate students and faculty who have been selected to screen their short films and videos at the Poetic Lens Short Film Festival!
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LA-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent and UO Cinema Studies Professor of Filmmaking, Masami Kawai, is paving the way for a more inclusive cinema landscape. Kawai was selected for Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios’ Project Advancement and Completion Fund, which supports nine directors currently engaged in fiction features. These talented filmmakers are all from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Masami’s project, Valley of Tall Grass, is a feature film that tells the story of a TV/VCR combo set thrown out, but it survives and circulates through the lives of various working-class indigenous characters of color in an Oregon town. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. Continue reading “Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios Launch the Project Advancement and Completion Fund to Support Underrepresented Directors “
This week Filmmaker is publishing three diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2023 Sundance Directors Lab. We’ve already published writer-director Dania Bdeir‘s, and next up is director-writer-producer Masami Kawai, who traveled to the Lab with Valley of the Tall Grass.
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The student Lab Monitor works in the Cinema Studies Lab located in 267 Knight Library. Their primary duties are supervising the lab space and providing assistance for students using computers during open lab times. The Lab Monitor’s other responsibilities include routine cleaning and disinfecting of the space, trouble shooting computer issues, assisting students with production software, and other routine duties.
Deadline to Apply: Friday, September 1, 2023 at 9:00am.
Cinema Studies Associate Professor Michael Aronson, co-director of the Oregon Theater Project, and Brian Francis, owner of 99W Drive-In Theater, joined OPB’s Think Out Loud to disucss the history of drive-ins in the state. Read the OPB article and listen to the full conversation.
Abby Lewis is double majoring in mathematics and cinema studies and minoring in music. Lewis published a children’s book titled The Forest of Numbers.
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Congratulations to Iman Zarlons for winning the top prize of the Asian Studies Award at the Undergraduate Research Symposium for her project, “Crazy Indonesia: Examining the Transnational Success of Indonesian Exploitation Film.” Iman is a Cinema Studies major with a double minor in Global Health and Southeast Asian Studies.
