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CSU Stanislaus Art Space just completed a retrospective of Professor Britta Sjogren's films and photography (see more below).
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Undergraduate Advising Coordinator News
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Dear Cinema Students,
I couldn't have been happier with how smoothly things went on campus this fall. We started the semester with some anxiety about variants and fires, but luckily neither slowed us down.
As fall wraps up, spring enrollment seems to be on everyone's mind. Please note that classes at all levels still have open seats. You can find spring courses here. If you are having trouble enrolling, please contact the course instructor directly.
I sincerely hope your fall wraps up smoothly. Enjoy your holidays and winter break!
Scott Boswell
Associate Professor // Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
Schedule an Appointment
Pronouns: he/him
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SFSU COVID-19 News and Cinema Responses
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Please go to this link for up to date campus operation communications during the COVID-19 crisis: news.sfsu.edu/covid-19
Please go to this link to see the SFSU CINEMA responses to the COVID-19 health crisis: cinema.sfsu.edu
Please check the SFSU's Campus Comeback website for the latest updates on reopening.
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SFSU Student Resources
During this Public Health Crises
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You can find information about using the Hope Crisis Fund, or donating to it at:
https://dos.sfsu.edu/content/sf-state-hope-fund-crisis-loan-application
Helpful resources are also located in this page maintained by the ARC, including information about the basic needs, the food pantry and short term loans:
https://advisinglca.sfsu.edu/content/student-resources
STUDENTS WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS OR GREEN CARD HOLDERS, WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS, PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME, CAN NOW APPLY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT:
https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/filing_a_claim.htm
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CINE 605 PRESENTS STREAMING STATE, SEASON TWO
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CINE 605 presents STREAMING STATE Season Two
Five Curated Programs from the SFSU Student Film Archives 1987-2018
December 14-19, 2021
Watch online
Join us for another exciting look into the SFSU student film archives! These programs were curated by students in this fall’s CINE 605 class who looked at over forty years of student films to make these programs. Tune in to experience SFSU's rich legacy of filmmaking!
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CSU STANISLAUS ART SPACE JUST COMPLETED A RETROSPECTIVE OF PROFESSOR BRITTA SJOGREN'S FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
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Professor BRITTA SJOGREN’s films have received awards in such diverse venues as the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Rio FEMINA, Atlanta, Aspen, and have been included in special showcases at Creteil’s Festival of Films by Women and the Locarno International Film Festival. Her most recent feature, Redemption Trail, a contemporary feminist Western set in Oakland and Marin, premiered at the prestigious Mill Valley International Film Festival, winning the audience award. Past features written and directed by Sjogren include In This Short Life (2005), a neorealist docu-fiction about choices—big and small—and their consequences, and Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions, (1992) a modern Joan-of-Arc story about a young woman’s perverse attempt to save the world through self-denial. Sjogren’s short, a small Domain—a fable about a solitary woman in her 90s who kidnaps a baby—won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 1996 Sundance Festival, and a dozen other top festival awards. Sjogren is a Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the AFI Independent Filmmaker grant and the CineReach award for Best Screenplay Minority Protagonist, among other honors. She has programmed film series for the Creteil Festival and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, is a Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, where, as School Director from 2015-2019, she launched a major curricular initiative to spotlight the contributions of women in film, and oversaw important capital improvements, including the renovation of the famed Coppola theater. Sjogren is author of a book on female voice and sound in film, Into the Vortex. She co-founded the production company Dire Wolf in 2007. Sjogren is currently developing several new projects, including an episodic fictional series delving into the issues of gun violence/gun control in the United States, as well as a limited series set in Yurok country exploring historical and contemporary water rights conflicts and their connection to the disturbing pandemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
View the catalog
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PROFESSOR DANIEL BERNARDI'S FILM THE WAR TO END ALL WARS... AND ITS AMERICAN VETERANS IS AN AWARD WINNER AT THE REALE FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY
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My film, The War to End All Wars… and its American Veterans, which I held out of festival due to COVID and thus I only recently started submitting it, is an Award Winner at the Reale Film Festival out of Italy and an official selection at the Miami Independent Film Festival. More festival decisions are coming.
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen and expert commentary from world-renown scholars, The War to End all Wars tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: It's Ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fights, and courageous nurses. As the story of trench, chemical and open warfare unfolds, we come to understand how the first global war transformed American society, leading to the Veteran's Administration, while also solidifying the country's parochial past despite the battlefield successes of African American troops.
It was edited by Arash Maleki and shot by Andrés Gallegos, two recent Cinema MFA graduates. It was produced by Carolina Gratianne, an MA graduate.
People can screen it on Vimeo here
Daniel Bernardi, Ph.D.
Professor of Cinema
Director of Documentary Corps
San Francisco State University
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PROFESSOR JOSEPH McBRIDE WILL PUBLISH A NEWLY UPDATED EDITION OF HIS BOOK WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ORSON WELLES?
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Professor Joseph McBride, who will teach a Spring 2022 course entitled Cine 345.01: Auteur Cinema: Orson Welles, will publish on January 11 a newly updated edition of his 2006 book, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles: A Portrait of an Independent Career (University Press of Kentucky). That book, McBride’s third on Welles, focuses largely on his relatively little-known later career (1970-85), but reconsiders his entire life and work to put his eventually complete independence into context. McBride also plays a role as a young film historian in Welles’s 2018 feature, The Other Side of the Wind, currently on Netflix.
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THE BRAVES BY MFA STUDENT DIANA OJEDA GOES TO CANNES
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The documentary feature film project, The Braves, directed by second-year MFA Cinema student Diana Ojeda, has been awarded an invitation to participate in the Marché du Film at the Cannes film festival to be held in March 2022. The project was selected while participating in the international documentary film market “Conecta,” in Chile earlier this month. The Braves is in stage of preproduction and looking for funding.
For more information go to www.cinelatina.us
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2021 MFA COHORT HELD THEIR THESIS FILM SCREENING ON DECEMBER 9 IN COPPOLA THEATRE
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The community mourns the loss of Cinema student Zane Timpson. Zane made several excellent films, and was enjoying sponsorship by a skateboard company. Zane is remembered as a lovely, kind, talented person who was always very generous to his peers. His 2019 film Golden Ghost Gone is a tender and nostalgic rotoscoped road movie, emphasizing friendship and community connections. As a professional skater, Zane's specialty was skating on anything, anywhere, in humorous and creative ways. Our sincerest condolences to his family and friends at this time.
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The Archive Project is the recipient of the Civic Engagement/Civic Learning grant from the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement for 2022. This generous fund will support Archives and Activism four projects in community archiving for students including: Black voices in AR and VR, and preserving Queer cinema.
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On December 7, The Archive Project hosted alumni filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin in the Coppola Theater, who screened clips of 17 films from the Film Finals collection, 1964-2000. Included were new digital transfers of Jerry Slick and William Piersol's 1964 anti-war essay film, Everybody Hits Their Brother Once, and Paul Chan and Robert Magoffin's 1966 lyrical essay film, Market Street. Among the other alumni filmmakers discussed were Cauleen Smith, Lynne Sachs, Miguel Pendás, Sharon Jue, Caroline Blair, Patricia Baum, and Jay Rosenblatt. We are looking forward to more gems from the vault screenings next semester.
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QUEER CINEMA COALITION: A NEW COLLECTIVE ON CAMPUS!
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Queer Cinema Coalition ensures a safe and creative space for LGBTQ+ filmmakers on campus to learn how to make our mark in an industry that doesn’t prioritize our voices. Through guest speakers, screenings/discussions, and community organizing, we build life-long connections to help us survive and thrive as filmmakers at SFSU and beyond.
Follow us on instagram @queercinemacoalition.
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THE FEMINIST FILMMAKER FELLOWSHIP (F3)
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The Feminist Filmmaker Fellowship (F3) aims to provide an open and safe space, virtual or in-person, advocating for womxn and non-binary filmmakers. Our events allow leadership development to flourish by listening to members to help bring their ideas to life. We are close to starting production on our first live-action short film. Follow us on Instagram @feministfilmmakerfellowship for all our updates and to help us make some films.
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School of Cinema Events on Vimeo
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To the School of Cinema,
Over the past year The School of Cinema has hosted webinars on a myriad of subjects related to our diverse curriculum. All of these webinars are available for viewing on our Vimeo website at the Showcase:
SFSU Cinema School Events
Password: SFSUCinemaEvents
There is something for everyone and we hope you will avail yourselves to these recordings in the coming months.
Artie Farkas
Technical Lead
SFSU School of Cinema
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ONLINE TOUR WITH CINEMA TECHNICAL STAFF
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Dear Prospective Students:
The School of Cinema is offering online tours every Tuesday from 2:30-3:30p.m. You will have the opportunity to hear about our facilities, studios, equipment and meet our technical staff.
Zoom link here
Arthur Farkas: TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR
Pablo Riquelme: PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
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December 11-17
Final Exams
December 14-19
Five Curated Programs from the SFSU Student Film Archives 1987-2018
Watch online
December 24 - January 3, 2022
Winter Recess, No Classes/ Campus Closed
January 7, 2022
F 21 grades available on SF Gateway
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