Film Students Celebrate 5th Year at SD Film Fest

This past weekend the Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies department including professors Jason Halprin, Tom Brandau and 34 students attended the 5th annual South Dakota Film Festival held in Aberdeen.  The four-day event included the screening of 51 films, several workshops, parties and an Evening with Academy-Award nominated Cinematographer  Adam Greenberg (Terminator, Terminator 2, Ghosts, Sister Act, Three Men & […]

Comm Studies, Film Studies, Graphic Comm

Below is a document that explains the separation/relocation of the Communication Studies Department as well as the change to Film Studies Department and Graphic Communications Department joining to become the new Department of Cinema Arts and Digital Technologies. Departmental Changes

K-Nelson article appears in Jump Cut

On the 30th anniversary of Michelle Citron’s and Ellen Seiter’s 1981 article, “The Woman with the Movie Camera”, co-authors Jennifer Proctor, River E. Branch and Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies, published a critical response, “Woman with the Movie Camera Redux: Revisiting the Position of Women in the Production Classroom”. The article is a call and template for a […]

Film professors attend UFVA conference

Tom Brandau and Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies, attended the University Film and Video Association Conference held this year at Emerson College in Boston. Brandau presented his film, The Cleaning Lady, as part of the formal screening exhibitions. Brandau additionally served as a formal respondent for a narrative feature film. K-Nelson, co-chair of the UFVA Gender Caucus, coordinated […]