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Senior Lecturer Terri Sarris Retires!
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A BIG congratulations to FTVM Production Faculty Terri Sarris who is retiring at the end of May. Over the course of her 37-year career, Terri has played an instrumental role in the development of the FTVM undergraduate curriculum and has made invaluable contributions to the University at large. She has touched the lives of countless students, faculty, and staff in the FTVM community, Terri's passion for teaching, for mentoring, for service, and for the art of production will forever impact all who have had the privilege of working with her.
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Thank you, Terri. All of our best for a happy (and creative!) retirement!
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Professor Matthew Solomon Selected as a Public Engagement Faculty Fellow
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The Office of the Vice President for Research has selected 15 faculty members from across the University of Michigan for a fellowship program that enhances and integrates public engagement in their research and scholarship for broad societal impact. The Public Engagement Faculty Fellow Program includes creating an interdisciplinary, intergenerational learning community, as well as encouraging recognition of and experimentation with all forms of public engagement.
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Production Faculty Chris McNamara Premieres Film at Experiments in Cinema
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Above stills courtesy of Chris McNamara
Chris McNamara's film A Miscellany of Places That Will Not Appear will have its film festival world premiere at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 20, 2023. A Miscellany of Places That Will Not Appear is a cataloguing of orphaned places and the unresolved, everydayness of it all. Each setting is a rumination on what it means to inhabit a place just long enough to feel a sense of regret after leaving. These places are stand-ins for fragments of stories. Their meanings are left behind in the blank spaces in between.
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Doctoral Candidate Joshua Schulze Awarded Andrew Mellon
Endowed Dissertation Fellowship for 2023-2024
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Congratulations to Doctoral Candidate Joshua Schulze who was recently awarded an Andrew Mellon Endowed Dissertation Fellowship for 2023-2024 from the Harry Ransom Center. This award is one of 10 dissertation fellowships awarded by the center. Schulze received the award for his project, “Working Below Below-the-Line: Race, Labor, and Resources in Classical Hollywood." Schulze plans to work primarily with the David O. Selznick collection in order to look at how Selznick’s productions during the Second World War were impacted by the ongoing labor strikes and shortage of resources, paying particular attention to race in below-the-line work.
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FTVM Congratulates the Following Hopwood Award Winners!
Winners will be honored at the 2023 Hopwood Award Ceremony Tonight!
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Aidan Harris
Hopwood Award, Newman Prize in Dramatic Writing, Naomi Saferstein Literary Award
Morgan Kisner
Hopwood Award, Newman Prize in Dramatic Writing
Azul Ciblis Blaquier
Hopwood Award, Newman Prize in Dramatic Writing, Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing
Nicole Winthrop
Hopwood Award, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
Macy Goller
Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing; finalist,Text/Image Composition Prize
Tomi Drucker
Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing
Caroline Maier
Frank and Gail Beaver Scriptwriting Prize
Zora Kwasnik
Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
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Eliana Kraut, Paul Legallet, Lily Price, and Dominic Tatrai - Hopwood Award Finalists
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Congratulations to the Undergrad Recipients of the Webber Glover Round 3 Awards!
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The Department of Film, Television, and Media is pleased to announce the students who have received the Webber Glover Award (Round 3):
Allison Baker
Jesse Krugel
Delaney Szczepaniak
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FTVM Students Claim Two NATAS Student Production Award Nominations
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The 45th Annual Michigan Regional Emmy Awards (part of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards) is intended to be an incentive for the continued pursuit of excellence for those working in the television and digital media industry and to focus public attention on outstanding cultural, educational, technological, entertainment, news, informational programming and craft achievements in television and online.
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FTVM undergrads Nicole DeLong, Pierce Force, Matt Snell and UM undergrads Jackson Roth and Sam Uribe-Botero were nominated in the Best Music Video category for their video "Thinking Bout You" by the local UM band SSJ. The video was created for Carleen Hsu's WN 23 FTVM 303 "Making the Music Video"
mini course.
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FTVM undergrad Breanna Losey was nominated for Best Director for the short film
"Until We Meet Again," created in Carleen Hsu's FA 22 FTVM 304: The Indie Lab.
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photos courtesy of Carleen Hsu and Breanna Losey
Congratulations, and best of luck to all of you!
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FTVM LA Intern Alums Join FTVM Internship Panel in Studio A
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photos courtesy of Rob Gingerich-Jones
Hosted and moderated by FTVM's Director of Screenwriting Professor Jim Burnstein, FTVM students interested in acquiring an internship in the entertainment industry gathered in NQ Studio A on Friday, April 7, 2023, to hear from a panel of former FTVM students who interned in Los Angeles. Prof. Burnstein discussed the Mitchell LA Internship Program Summer Speaker Series and internships FTVM students have secured in the past while the panel shared their internship experiences and fielded questions from the audience. A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in this event!
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Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker
John Sayles on Welles and Altman
Friday, April 14, 2023
Hatcher Gallery
3:00 - 5:00 PM
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Researchers from across the globe have been using the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collections at the U-M Library since they arrived more than a decade ago. Books, papers, articles, movies, mapping projects and semester-long courses are just some of the outcomes that have been generated from the wealth of this material. But what would a fellow “Maverick” member do with this same material? Noted writer and director John Sayles will kick off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.
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Please join us for John’s presentation as well as recognizing the generosity of Mr. Joshua Bilmes, who has graciously funded four research and programmatic initiatives for the U-M Library’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection, held within the Special Collection Research Center. The event will highlight the four programs that were made possible through Joshua's funding support:
- The Hubert I. Cohen Research Fellowship
- The Bilmes Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Student Internship
- Open access support for the U-M Press’s Out of the Archives manuscript series
- The Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker Series
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FTVM Screenwriting Program Presents
An Open Session with Jeff Ingold and Bill Lawrence
Monday, April 17, 2023
rescheduled from original March date
8:00 PM
Rackham Amphitheatre
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Jeff Ingold is the President of Bill Lawrence’s Doozer Productions at Warner Bros. Television. He just wrapped production on the third season of the two-time Emmy award winning series TED LASSO, as well as SHRINKING (starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford) and BAD MONKEY (starring Vince Vaughn), both for Apple TV+. Bill Lawrence is an award-winning television writer, producer and director. His current projects include the Apple TV + series TED LASSO, for which he recently won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series; BAD MONKEY for Apple TV +; SHRINKING for Apple TV +; and a CLONE HIGH reboot for HBO Max.
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FTVM Honors Screenings
Featuring the work of Rose Albayat and Jonah Sobczak
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
5:45 PM
The State Theater
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Come experience what it’s like to go to the theater in the early 1900s on April 18th, 2023! Rose Albayat’s film, Unexpected Mischievousness at the Queen’s Palace, is a creative remake of Georges Méliès’ Les Cartes Vivantes. There will be several surprises accompanying the screening of the film, so make sure you arrive on time! The magic will begin at 5:45 PM!
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Jonah Sobczak's I Miss and Love You is a twenty-minute dramedy film that follows two siblings through the largest tragedy of their lives. Their priorities collide as the pressures of this harsh reality build, and they must decide how to reconcile their grief and the cold situation they found themselves in... together.
Please note that due to limited capacity, the State Theater screening of Jonah's film is for cast and crew only; details about an additional public screening are forthcoming.
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Lightworks Film Festival
Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22, 2023
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. -- Show starts at 7:00 p.m.
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The Lightworks Festival is a showcase of Film, Television, and Media student films that are screened over the course of two evenings and judged by a panel of FTVM judges. Each semester the Festival provides a venue for students to present their end-of-term production coursework to classmates, family, and friends.
All award winners will be announced at the end of the second night.
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Lightworks applications will open TOMORROW, April 13, 2023,
and close at 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
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Please note that arrangements for late submissions can be made - but need to be communicated prior to the Thursday deadline. Please contact (Jkrugel@umich.edu)
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Screening of Oeuvre, Unfinished
An Independent Film by FTVM Alum Madeline Sun Woo Kim ('21)
(and a crew of FTVM and UM students/alums)
One-night-only Premiere with Post-Screening Q & A
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
6:30 PM
The Michigan Theater
Free Admission (Please RSVP HERE)
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Oeuvre, Unfinished is a 45-minute romance/magic realism genre film about two characters - Anna and Leo - who find out that they are connected in multiple parallel universes through an entrancing painting titled, Oeuvre, Unfinished.
Over 25 UM and FTVM students and alumni were involved in making this film come to life!
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTOS
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photos courtesy of Carrie Moore and Lisa Rohde
On Thursday, March 30, 2023, FTVM students, staff, and faculty gathered in Studio A for the biannual FTVM open house/declaration event, I.AM.FTVM, to talk with incoming majors and interested undergrads about our department offerings, internships, and the honors program.
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Photo courtesy of Prof. Solomon
On Monday, April 10, 2023, Professor Solomon's FTVM 352 students had a 3D screening of Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) in the PC Lab in MLB 2001 using VR headsets, made possible by Jan Stewart, Shawn Jackson, and our capable colleagues in LSA IT.
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