MSUM Cinema Arts and Digital Technologies Department receives award from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

The Minnesota State University Moorhead Cinema Arts and Digital Technologies Department has been selected to receive a 2012-2013 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Academic and Student Affairs award for Excellence in Curriculum Programming. Awards were selected by peer academic and student affairs campus administrators based on such criteria as effective use of technology and student achievement. “We are honored and […]

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 […]

Kristjansson-Nelson presents film at Minnesota film festival

Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies, presented her film, Sveit, at the Free Range Film Festival in northern Minnesota on Saturday, July 30.  K-Nelson also attended the Rural Arts Culture Summit, June 8-11 in Fergus Falls, where she presented an artist’s talk, her film Sveit, and assisted in facilitating an open space work group on the topic of the […]

Kristjansson-Nelson to receive UWM alumni award

Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Film Studies, will receive the Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The UWM Alumni Association will recognize 15 alumni this year, nine of which will receive the GOLD Award for significant contributions to their field and community. K-Nelson is the GOLD recipient for UWM’s Peck School of the Arts, where she […]