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Awards Chatter with Scott Feinberg
Tuesday, March 3 / 7:00 PM
The Carsey-Wolf Center is pleased to welcome Scott Feinberg, Executive Editor of Awards for The Hollywood Reporter, for a timely and illuminating public discussion that pulls back the curtain on how Oscar races are won. Feinberg is the author of the “Feinberg Forecast” column and the creator and host of the Awards Chatter podcast. In this discussion event, Feinberg will join Carsey-Wolf Center Interim Director Ross Melnick to talk about his career as a leading awards analyst, journalist, and podcaster and guide audiences through the current awards season and the leading hopefuls for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards.
Scott Feinberg (Executive Editor of Awards, The Hollywood Reporter) will join moderator Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a comprehensive discussion of this year’s awards season and the race for the 98th Academy Awards.
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CWC Global: Scenes of Extraction
Thursday, March 5 / 7:00 PM
Scenes of Extraction (2023) creates an archival constellation using the still and moving images of British Petroleum, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British energy complex that spanned across Iran, but also reached other British oil operations in South East Asia. The film weaves through decades of archival documents to parse out the visual history of the “reflection seismography” method for oil exploration, which was heavily tested across the Iranian oil belt despite its destructive nature.
Filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi will join moderator Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Scenes of Extraction.
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Storytelling for the Screen:
The Artful Dodger
Tuesday, March 10 / 7:00 PM
The Artful Dodger returns in season 2, and Jack is in deep trouble. He’s got a date with the noose, he’s being hunted by Inspector Boxer, Port Victory’s new lawman, and if he sees the woman he loves, Lady Belle, he’ll be hung. With Boxer competing with Jack for Belle’s affection, the crafty Fagin drags him into their most dangerous heist yet, and a killer is on the loose. Get ready for an explosive season with more love, loss, invention, and deception than ever.
Following our screening of The Artful Dodger season 2, episode 1 “Hangman,” series creator James McNamara (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will join moderator Ross Melnick (interim Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center) for a discussion of the series and its creation.
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CWC Classics: The Misfits
Thursday March 12 / 7:00 PM
Directed by John Huston and written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller, The Misfits follows recently divorced Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) as she drifts into the orbit of three aging cowboys (played by Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach); the cowboys’ uneasy attempts at capturing wild mustangs mirror their larger struggles finding purpose in a rapidly changing American West. Today, The Misfits stands as one of the most compelling and unconventional Westerns of its era, released at a moment when Hollywood itself was in a period of great transition.
Emily Carman (Film and Media Studies, Chapman University) will join moderator Ross Melnick (interim director of the Carsey-Wolf Center) for a post-screening discussion of The Misfits.
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Apply to Coastal Media Project!
Deadline to apply: Friday, March 13
The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Coastal Media Project is a nine-week summer intensive environmental media production and documentary studies program. Working in teams, students from a wide variety of backgrounds produce short documentary films that focus on our coastal environment. This twelve-credit program is designed to expand the way vital stories are told. It trains students to be thoughtful and informed environmental mediamakers with knowledge of documentary modes and a toolbox of possibilities for creative intervention, including hands-on training with state-of-the-art equipment.
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CWC Docs: Pistachio Wars
Video now available!
At the end of January, filmmakers Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham joined moderator Rich Farrell (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to discuss their film Pistachio Wars, which examines Stuart and Lynda Resnick’s agricultural empire, The Wonderful Company, and its influence on California water politics. The conversation explored the film’s evolution from investigative journalism to documentary form, California water history, and the challenges of facing agribusiness power.
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Storytelling for the Screen Summer Institute: Advanced Television Writing Workshop
Deadline to apply: Wednesday, April 15 (for primary consideration)
The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Storytelling for the Screen summer institute is a six-week, eight-credit intensive capstone TV writing workshop. The program will teach students how to develop and write a show bible for an original scripted series and how to plan and write a pilot script. It will also strongly emphasize story and model the industry-standard TV development process, with pitches, simulated writers’ rooms, and weekly talks from distinguished industry guests.
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CWC Internship Scholarship Program
Summer internships: applications due May 15
The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Internship Scholarship Program provides UCSB students with funding to pursue internships in media. Internships may be hosted by traditional media companies or nonprofit organizations. This highly competitive program is designed to provide talented and motivated students with financial assistance in exploring careers in media.
To date, we have supported students undertaking internships with such prestigious, global media brands as NBC Universal, HBO, Vertigo Entertainment, and more. Up to $2500 in funding is available during the summer or the academic year to help defray living expenses for interns who are taking part in paid or unpaid internships.
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