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School of Communication Named Finalists for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Awards

  • Thursday, 26 January 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • Prescribing Addition website
The SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Awards has named the University of Miami School of Communication finalists in the student category for the website “Prescribing Addiction” which highlights the dangers of addiction to prescription medication. The web site, http://prescribingaddiction.com/, was created in Prof. Kim Grinfeder’s “Interactive Storytelling Class” and includes video testimonials of young people talking openly about their interactions and struggles with prescription drugs. Included are a 25-year-old who once visited up to 10 doctors a day to get prescriptions and a father who was a former addict, but now speaks to students about the dangers. “The fact…

Meet Olympic Diver Greg Louganis and Actor Dawnn Lewis at the SoC Saturday

  • Thursday, 26 January 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
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Join UM Star Alumni Olympic Gold Diver Greg Louganis and actor Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, CSI) in a discussion about “Working in Film, TV & Stage,” 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28. at the University of Miami Wolfson Building, 5100 Brunson Dr., room 2040, Coral Gables, FL. The discussion is free and open to all. Louganis studied Theatre at UM in 1978. He won gold medals and set record scores in spring board and tower diving events at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. After testing positive for HIV in 1988, he recounted his story in a best-selling book Breaking…

SoC Professors Study the Important Role Haitian Media Play in Miami

  • Thursday, 19 January 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • (L-R) SoC Profs. Sallie Hughes, Tsitsi Wakhisi and Yves Colon discuss the findings of their new study on Haitian Media in Miami with Tropik TV reporter, Jenn C. Charles (center with mic).
University of Miami School of Communication professors created an in-depth analysis of Haitian community media in greater Miami. The study informs readers on the uses and practices of Haitian community media before and after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The findings were released to the public on Wednesday, January 18, at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The report proposes the formation of a non-profit professional association that could develop financing and marketing mechanisms and ways to share gathering of news and information to overcome existing journalism and business challenges. “The purpose of this working paper is to make this…

Lattman Lecture Film Series Continues with the Coming-of-Age Film, Tomboy, at the Cosford Cinema

  • Thursday, 19 January 2012
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    • tomboy poster
Identity formation and coming of age are themes often depicted in film because they are so pervasive in real life. French director Céline Sciamma (Water Lillies) delves into these themes with grace and compassion in Tomboy, playing Thursday through Jan. 29 at the Bill Cosford Cinema as part of the Kenneth Lattman Lecture Series. Tomboy is a charming tale of childhood memories and the relationships between children and children, children and parents, and one’s own heart and body. To the neighborhood, Mikael is the new kid in town, but the new kid has a secret: Mikael is really Laure,…
 
  • Thursday January 26

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: TOMBOY

  • Friday January 27

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: TOMBOY

    Cosford Screening: 9:00 PM: DRIVE

  • Saturday January 28

    Cosford Screening: 10:00 PM: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

    Cosford Screening: 11:59 PM: DRIVE

    Cosford Screening: 1:30 PM: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE

    Cosford Screening: 4:00 PM: TOMBOY

    Cosford Screening: 6:00 PM: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE

    Cosford Screening: 8:00 PM: TOMBOY

  • Sunday January 29

    Cosford Screening: 10:00 PM: DRIVE

    Cosford Screening: 12:00 PM: Opera Series - CENDRILLON

    Cosford Screening: 3:30 PM: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE

    Cosford Screening: 5:30 PM: TOMBOY

    Cosford Screening: 8:00 PM: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

  • Tuesday January 31

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: Opera Series - CENDRILLON

  • Thursday February 02

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: GRANITO - HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR

  • Friday February 03

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: THE CONQUEST

    Cosford Screening: 9:00 PM: GRANITO - HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR

  • Monday February 06

    Pulitzer Center presents "Voices of Haiti: A Post-Quake Odyssey in Verse"