A new podcast called “What Happened in Skinner” has been downloaded more than 40,000 times and is being nominated for an Ambie Award.
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Category: Spotlights
The Duck Stops Here Podcast: A Conversation with Pixar’s Maura Turner and Greg Snyder
Tune in to this latest episode of “The Duck Stops Here Podcast” with two Pixar Ducks: Greg Snyder, BA ’92 (Communications and Film) who is a Film Editor at Pixar Maura Turner, BA ’14 (Cinema Studies) who is a Feature Relations Project Manager at Pixar. Hosted by Cinema Studies Associate Professor Michael Aronson.
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UO Today Interview: Cinema Studies Assistant Professor Ari Purnama
Ari Purnama, assistant professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, talks about growing up in Indonesia and what led to his interest in film studies and filmmaking. He discusses his approach to his scholarship as well as his practice as a filmmaker. Purnama recommends a film that he finds especially interesting.
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Breaking the glass ceiling one creative move at a time
Cinema, music, theatre and dance all have one thing in common: storytelling. Whether it’s through a heart-felt performance on screen or a mesmerizing dance routine on stage, it is art forms like these that allow the audience and the creators themselves to be deeply impacted by the stories told.
But for these four UO students, art is much more than that. For them, it’s about creating a space to express themselves freely, and taking what they have learned from their personal experiences to make positive changes in their creative industries and pave the way for future generations.
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Cinema Studies Alum, Zach Perry B.A. ’13, Publishes ‘One Among the Duggle Tree’
UO cinema studies department hosts Academy Award nominee
Another rising filmmaker with a chance to take home an Oscar will make a virtual visit to the UO and offer cinema studies students and the campus community an inside look at how big-screen movies are made.
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Congratulations to Director Chloé Zhao
The Department of Cinema Studies congratulates Chloé Zhao on her 2021 Academy Award nominations and Golden Globe wins for Nomadland.
As the 2018 Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker, Chloé joined our academic community for a two-week residency, guest-lecturing in the course “CINE 408: The Art of Directing” and participating in a series of public talks on our campus. Cinema Studies fondly remembers the generosity with which Chloé mentored our students and all the stimulating conversations she had with faculty during her residency. We are honored to have hosted on our campus such an inspiring filmmaker. In renewing our commitment to the values about cinema and ethical living that Chloé has so graciously shared with us through her work and during her residency, we would like to echo a passage from her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. Continue reading “Congratulations to Director Chloé Zhao”
From Yes Day to Love Victor, Film Editor is Making the Cuts
Sabrina Gimenez loved movies, but she couldn’t imagine a future in film until a light bulb moment during her senior year at the University of Oregon.
For a film studies class, she had created a short, stop-motion animated film about two bicycles that go on a date on campus, culminating in a dorm-room tryst. As she pieced the film together, she found herself completely enthralled. “All of a sudden, I look at my clock on the computer, and six hours had passed right before my very eyes, and I was like, ‘How did this happen?’”
Fast-forward seven years, and the 2013 graduate (English, cinema studies) is now working in Hollywood as an assistant film editor. She has helped produce scripted movies, including director Miguel Arteta’s 2020 comedy Like a Boss, the upcoming Netflix comedy Yes Day, and season two of the critically acclaimed Hulu teen drama series, Love, Victor. Continue reading “From Yes Day to Love Victor, Film Editor is Making the Cuts”
Yosemite’s Resident Climbing Filmmaker: Max Buschini
Comfortably ensconced in Hans Florine’s basement in Yosemite West where he works as a caretaker, Buschini fills his days with filming, taking photographs and climbing everything in sight.
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What Our Members Do: Sabrina Gimenez, Assistant Editor
Article from CINE Montage: Journal of the Motion Picture Editors Guild
Who gave you your first break?
“I was fortunate enough to have a mentor, David Bess, whom I had met in my senior year of college when we connected through the University of Oregon’s Cinema Studies alumni network. David reached out on my behalf to a former colleague who happened to work where I wanted to work, Trailer Park. He passed my name along at an opportune moment when the agency’s satellite office was hiring a coordinator/assistant editor. David has had my back ever since.” Continue reading “What Our Members Do: Sabrina Gimenez, Assistant Editor”