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Takesue has film screened at Los Angeles Asian Pacific International Film Festival

Tuesday, May 3, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kimi Takesue, assistant professor of film in the School of Art and Design’s Department of Transmedia, had her feature documentary “Where Are You Taking Me?” screened in the documentary competition at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific International Film Festival on May 1 at the Director’s Guild of America.

Arts & Culture

Academy Award-winning filmmaker, SU honorary degree candidate to teach MayMester course

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, one of six individuals of exceptional achievement to receive Syracuse University honorary degree at its 157th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15, will remain in Syracuse to teach a MayMester course, CFE 600, “Documentary Films…

Arts & Culture

SYRFILMFEST’11 submissions deadline extended

Wednesday, April 20, 2011, By KC Duggan

Due to a website error that prevented filmmakers and film lovers from accessing http://www.syrfilmfest.com, the SYRFILM staff and directors have decided to extend the submission deadlines for the 2011 festival. SYRFILMFEST’11 late deadline will now be May 20, and the…

VPA’s Owen Shapiro has film accepted into two festivals

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

Owen Shapiro, professor of film in the School of Art and Design’s Department of Transmedia, had “Vinyl and Red Lips,” a 22-minute experimental video that he completed in January with Pedro Cuperman, associate professor in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences and editor of Point of Contact, accepted into the Athens International Film Festival (late April) and the San Gio Video Festival (July).

SYRFILMFEST schedules prescreening events

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, By KC Duggan

The Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILM) continues its 2011 season of year-round programming with its first prescreening evening. The event will take place Thursday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at Le Moyne College, 244 Reilly Hall. SYRFILM prescreening staff invites the…

Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun to screen ‘Children of Invention’ April 13

Monday, April 11, 2011, By Erica Blust

Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun will present his feature debut, “Children of Invention,” on Wednesday, April 13, at 6 p.m. in 121 Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The screening is sponsored by the film program in the College of Visual and…

STEM

LCS’s Dacheng Ren given prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study biofilms

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By News Staff

Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been given the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF)…

Leading communication, identity scholar to speak on what contemporary films teach about race, African American culture

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, By Erica Blust

Ronald L. Jackson II, head of the University of Illinois’ Department of African American Studies and a professor of media and cinema studies, will present the talk “What Do Contemporary Films Teach Us about Race and African American Culture?” on…

Twelfth annual Reel Queer Film Festival planned March 31-April 2

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, By News Staff

Open Doors, a graduate group of queer and queer-friendly Syracuse University students, announces its 12th annual Reel Queer Film Festival on March 31, April 1 and April 2. The group will present a diverse platform of films that give voice…

Takesue short narrative film ‘That Which Once Was’ premieres at SXSW

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, By Erica Blust

“That Which Once Was,” a short narrative film by Kimi Takesue, assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, premiered on March 13 at the “South by Southwest” (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas.