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a women with a digital camera records the landscape from an overlook
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Ryan Grant
Coastal Media Project student Catherine Scanlon gathering footage for her team's documentary short film

Student-made environmental documentaries to screen at SBIFF

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An illustration of a bright red hand holding a 1950s era microphone
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Courtesy Carol Stabile
This illustration appeared on the cover of 'Red Channels,' a 1950s-era newsletter by an anti-Communist group that contained names of supposed subversives in the entertainment industry.

The long-term effects of the Hollywood blacklist
Beautiful Black woman sitting in a dark theater with a prop box of popcorn
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Matt Perko
UCSB lecturer and producer Wendy Eley Jackson spotlights advocacy in a compelling new documentary.

In the theater with Wendy Eley Jackson: ‘Facing the Falls’
Portrait of Leah Bleich
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Taylor Finlay
Director Leah Bleich brings her first feature to the campus where she got her start in filmmaking.

‘Back’ to the future: Alum Leah Bleich returns to campus with her first feature film
two scientists in green vests talking to each other
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Mapping Alzheimer's Productions
Colombian neuroscientist Francisco Lopera, left, and UCSB neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik

Mapping Alzheimer’s: UCSB’s Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle tracing Alzheimer’s roots from Colombia
white man holding camera with many people behind him who are Black
Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan

Film & media studies instructor awarded Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship
image of a woman from the film Memoria
"Memoria," staring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, kicks off the Panic! film series

Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center
glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014

Laila Shereen Sakr’s ‘Arabic Glitch’ explores data, activism and technoculture
a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

Coastal Media Project screens environmental documentaries at Pollock Theater
Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.

Marilyn F. Solomon’s television archives join UCSB Library’s film & television collection
classroom with student of color and a Black professor
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Matt Perko
“Everyone writes from the lens of their experience or where they allow their imagination,” says film & media studies lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson, pictured at far right.

UC Santa Barbara and Tuskegee University launch pilot program to advance Black cultural perspectives in TV writing
A promotional image from the film "The Citizen" depicts a man with dark hair on a payphone, with a NYC backdrop
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“The Citizen” provides a gripping commentary on the sociopolitical landscape of the U.S. and the everyday struggles of Arab-Americans after 9/11

‘The Citizen’ examines the immigrant experience in a post-9/11 world — with echoes that resonate today
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