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A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen

“One Battle After Another” editor, alum Andy Jurgensen, to discuss the political thriller on campus

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white man holding camera with many people behind him who are Black
Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan
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image of a woman from the film Memoria
"Memoria," staring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, kicks off the Panic! film series
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glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
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The "841" film crew (from left): director of photography Logan Asperian, sound mixer Lauren Barley, producer Macielle Villaseñor, director Rachel Burnett and editor Vincent Cuenco off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in 2023.