AdGroup Tie-Dye Party!
2022-09-23 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | School of Communication Courtyard, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us at our first AdGroup community event of the year in the SoC courtyard for a tie-dye party. Come tie-dye and connect with this year’s members! Membership fees for the year are due on this day.

SIDNEY Screening + Panel Discussion
2022-09-23 19:10 - 22:00 | Tower Theater Miami, 1508 SW 8 St, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Join us for an illuminating panel discussion with Cosford Cinema’s Rene Rodriguez, University of Miami professor Dr. Terri Francis, and local filmmaker Cathleen Dean. The discussion will take place at Tower Theater Miami before the screening of SIDNEY.
From producer Oprah Winfrey, this revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the center of Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring candid interviews with Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, and Spike Lee, this is a must-see for lovers of cinema and history alike.

Getting Real '22 Documentary Conference
2022-09-27 14:30 - 2022-09-28 20:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with the International Documentary Association (IDA) as one of their Community Hubs for their Getting Real 2022 Conference.

Getting Real is a biennial conference unlike any other event on the documentary calendar. Now in its fifth edition, this gathering brings documentary filmmakers and industry professionals together in a communal space where they can build lasting relationships, encounter inspiring ideas, and host constructive conversations about the many challenges facing our growing community. This year, Getting Real will be a hybrid conference, happening both in-person in Los Angeles and virtually with Community Hubs around the world.

UM students and faculty will be able to attend the conference virtually, for free, at the Bill Cosford Cinema on Tuesday 9/27 from 2:30-8:30 p.m., and Wednesday 9/28 from 10:15 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

Sessions last 1 hour and 15 minutes, while keynote presentations are 30 minutes long.

Keynote speakers include filmmakers, Erika Dilday (Executive Producer POV), and Nanfu Wang (Director of One Child One Nation, 2019).

Here is the full program at the Cosford Cinema for the two days.

Tuesday 9/27:

2:30-3:45 Reality Check: Forming a New Documentary Canon
3:45-5:00 IDA Mixer at the Cosford Cinema
5-6:15 The Audience of Your Dreams (live)
6:30-7:45 Shifting Territories: Filmmakers Facing Crisis
8-8:30 Keynote Talk: Nanfu Wang (live)
Wednesday 9/28:
10:15-11:30 Surviving the Aftermath
11:30 -12:45 Visual Arrangements
1-2:15 Artists Hold Power (live)
2:30-3:45 Personal Documentary (live)
3:45-4:45 Coffee Break
5-6:15 No Place Like Home (live)
6:30-7:45 Festival Distribution Report
8-8:30 Keynote Talk: Erika Dilday (live)

Watching Movies with: Phil Lord
2022-10-01 17:00 - 19:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join Phil Lord and Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a screening and discussion of the dark comedy “Harold and Maude.”
Phil Lord is a Miami native who began his film career with “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” co-directed by his creative partner Christopher Miller. Since then, the duo directed “21 Jump Street” (2012), “The Lego Movie” (2014), “22 Jump Street” (2014) and shared the Best Animated Feature Oscar for co-producing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018). He also produced the Oscar-nominated “The Mitchells vs the Machines” and wrote and produced TV shows such as “Brooklyn 911,” “The Last Man on Earth,” “Bless the Harts” and “The Afterparty,” among many others.
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) | DIRECTED BY HAL ASHBY | RUNNING TIME: 91 MINUTES | RATED PG for mild language and adult themes.
Bud Court stars as a rich young man who is obsessed with committing suicide until he meets a lively septuagenarian Holocaust survivor (Ruth Gordon) at a funeral. Critically scorned upon its original release, the movie is now considered one of the best American films of the 1970s and is a beloved cult classic. “Harold and Maude” was shocking by the standards of 1971 Hollywood movies, even the ones that styled themselves as adventurous or hip. But it is so ideologically and emotionally consistent, and weaves such a gentle spell, that we can accept the central romance as a metaphor for beleaguered political and social sentiments even as we get to know Harold and Maude as individuals and root for their happiness. It’s a romance, a tragedy, a satire, a paean to eccentricity, a philosophical statement, and a “trip” film whose music montages seem to roll in like waves.
Tickets are $10 plus tax to the general public, free for UM students with Cane Card (use UMSTUDENT) at checkout.

PRSSA Headshots for LinkedIn
2022-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
PRSSA is excited to announce that it will be holding its Headshots for LinkedIn event this coming Monday, Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. Looking to spice up your profiles? Meet PRSSA members in the School of Communication’s Studio A for this exciting event!

Virtual MMA Meeting with Ivan Parron, Esq.: "Issues in Sports Media Law"
2022-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 | FL
On Monday, Oct. 17, 6-7 p.m., Ivan Parron, Entertainment/Business Lawyer, will speak virtually about the current issues in sports media law.

AdGroup AdTour Vol.1
2022-10-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Markham Yard, 2424 S Dixie Highway, Miami, Florida, 33133
AdTour comes back with our first in-person tour of the semester. We’ll be visiting Markham Yard, just a short drive from School. Open to SoC students and AdGroup members. Please sign up for this tour using the provided link, https://forms.gle/vRPZjCn8p1ByZEEu7.

Covering the War in Ukraine and Other Stories
2022-10-24 11:10 - 12:10 | Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Join Professor Sanjeev Chatterjee for a conversation with Hungarian Journalist Vujity Tvrtko.

Debate Team UChat - The Issue of Partisanship
2022-10-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Shalala Student Center, 1330 Miller Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
The University of Miami Debate Team welcomes all members of the UM community to our second UChat discussion of the year. In recent years, the United States has seen a steep increase in partisanship and distrust between political parties, which has led to gridlock and inaction on impertinent issues in the community, and we want to hear what the UM community thinks about how to solve it! No prior debate experience is necessary and all opinions are welcome! The event will be taking place on Thursday, October 25th, 2022 from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the Storm Surge room. For more information, contact bml91@miami.edu. We hope to see you there!”

Public Relations Advising Session 1
2022-11-01 18:35 - 19:30 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Students studying public relations are encouraged to attend either of these sessions for spring advising. Faculty advisers will discuss required courses, electives, and PINs for internships and campaigns.

Session 1: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 6:35-7:30 p.m., Wolfson 4028
Session 2: Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2-3 p.m., Wolfson 4029

Public Relations Advising Session 2
2022-11-02 14:00 - 15:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States

Workplace Harassment Seminar
2022-11-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Koenigsberg & Nadal Interactive Media Center, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146
Join Professors Heidi Carr, Ana François, and Betsy Mateu for a workplace harassment seminar geared toward interns and future-interns. Learn about internships for credit and what to do if you’re made to feel uncomfortable on the job. Maria Sevilla, Title IX specialist at UM, will be sharing her expertise on gender equality and handling harassment.

Homecoming Alumni Celebration
2022-11-04 16:00 - 18:00 | School of Communication Courtyard, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us on campus to reconnect with alumni and friends, reminisce about the past, and enjoy delicious food! RSVP via the provided link.

Global Frontiers Series: "Together"
2022-11-05 17:00 - 19:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for a new breakthrough film series at the Cosford Cinema focusing on current world issues such as migration and social inclusion, peace and security, ageing populations, democracy, climate change and artificial intelligence.
The series is intended to bring two types of audiences together: Movie lovers and people who care about current events.
Each screening will be preceded by a wide-ranging, multi-media conversation between Bill Cosford Cinema manager, Rene Rodriguez, and a special guest.
The series launches on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 5 p.m. with “Together” (2021), a comedy-drama starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as a married couple forced to re-evaluate their relationship while trapped inside their London apartment during the Covid-19 lockdown. The film is co-directed by Oscar-nominee Stephen Daldry (“Billy Elliot,” “The Hours,” “The Reader”).
The screening will be preceded by a 40-minute discussion between Rodriguez and Karin Wilkins, dean of the School of Communication at the University of Miami, touching on the unintended long-term social and physical distance after the Covid-19 pandemic, including the toll on human relationships and the mental and physical consequences of restriction of movement. The discussion will include clips from other movies exploring similar subject matter.
Admission is free, but advance registration is required at the link. Watch this video for more information, https://vimeo.com/765456871.

NY Mets Pre and Post-Game Live Host to Speak to SoC Students Interested in Sports Broadcasting
2022-11-07 10:10 - 11:25 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Gary Apple, host of Mets Pre and Post-Game Live for SNY, will speak to School of Communication students interested in sports broadcasting during Professor Antonio Mora’s class in Studio C, 1008C.
Visit https://sny.tv/talent to learn more about Apple.

Virtual Media Management Association Meeting
2022-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
On Monday, Nov. 7, 6 – 7 p.m., Heather Aucoin, sales director, NBC 6/WTVJ and Telemundo 51/WSCV, NBCUniversal, will speak virtually about the trends in TV sales.

U Chat Indigenous Heritage Month: A discussion of indigenous feminism and mental health in the community
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Shalala Student Center, 1330 Miller Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Audience members are invited to share their ideas, opinions, and experience in a guided discussion introduced and moderated by UM Debate and the Indigenous Heritage Committee at the University of Miami.
This event is taking place at the Shalala Student Center, Storm Surge Room.

SoC Graduate Programs Virtual Open House
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Would you like to know more about our many graduate studies opportunities? The University of Miami School of Communication is holding a virtual open house to provide more information about our graduate programs.
In this 60-minute online information session, you will learn more about graduate studies opportunities, meet faculty, and ask questions about each program. If you are a UM School of Communication graduating senior you are eligible to receive an application waiver and an accelerated review process. For more info about this event or to RSVP, email socgrad@miami.edu.
This open house is available via zoom, https://miami.zoom.us/s/95504742719. Passcode: [REDACTED]

'Until the End of the World' Director's Cut Free Screening
2022-11-27 12:00 - 17:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Moving Image Alliance, in collaboration with the Bill Cosford Cinema, presents this rare screening of the director’s cut of the sci-fi action/drama “Until the End of the World.”
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) | 4K RESTORATION | DIRECTOR: Wim Wenders | RUNNING TIME: 287 minutes | RATED R for language and sensuality.
Director Wim Wenders’ decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic was conceived as the ultimate road movie. The film follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) possessing a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life.
Set at the turn of the millennium in the shadow of a world-changing catastrophe, Until The End of the World is presented at Cosford Cinema in its 287-minute director’s cut. This nearly five-hour film version is optimized for binge-watching, takes its heroes to the ends of the earth, and resonates with obvious and contemporary concerns.
Admission is FREE but registration is required at the link.
Moving Image Alliance is a Knight Foundation-invested studio project by Artist Barron Sherer. It’s a resource and service organization founded to create a climate for appreciation and production of contemporary moving image arts based on legacy (pre-digital) cinema practices and technologies. The project collaborates with and supports media artists and presenters through advocacy, instruction, and public performance.

Steve Sadicario, Partner and Agent at United Talent Agency
2022-11-30 10:10 - 11:25 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Visit Wolfson 1008C, Studio C, to learn about the news business from Steve Sadicario, one of the top agents in broadcasting who also worked as a vice president at ABC News.
Please send an email to Professor Antonio Mora at agm143@miami.edu if you’re attending.

Watching Movies with Nadege Green: FRIDAY (1995)
2022-12-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join Nadege Green and Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a *free* screening and discussion of the 1995 comedy “Friday.”
Nadege Green is a writer, researcher, and audio producer. She is the founder and leader of Black Miami-Dade, an emerging online digital platform that resists the erasure of Miami-Dade’s Black past. She is also the editor of the final installment in “The Miami Trilogy,” a three-book project exploring contemporary Miami. This final edition will center on community narratives around gun violence in Miami-Dade including essays, poems, photos, and illustrations by local residents. She is also a contributor to NPR/WLRN radio.
FRIDAY (1995) | DIRECTOR: F. Gary Gray. | RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 31 MIN | RATED R for pervasive language, drug use, and a brutal fight.
It is Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube, in his first comedic role) is unemployed, having been fired the previous day. This leads to trouble with Smokey’s (Chris Tucker’s) supplier, Big Worm (Faizon Love), who now wants his money, or his product back, or Smokey is a dead man. Then there’s Deebo (Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Jr.), the local bully, plus Craig’s jealous, psychotic girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and Debbie (Nia Long), the neighbor Craig has a crush on. A lot can happen while lounging around your house on a Friday.
“It’s just a typical summer day on a residential street: Kids are playing, lawns are being watered, there’s a lot going on but not much happening. And that’s exactly the point: co-screenwriters Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, and director F. Gary Gray find as much humor in well-observed detail as in the oddities of the film’s world.
“There are slapstick gags, bathroom humor (both figuratively and literally), a lot of jokes about hairstyles, and sight gags based on ridiculous juxtapositions, like the huge Deebo riding a little bike. All the inaction is set to a terrific, evocative soundtrack that mixes 1960s soul and Motown classics, Rose Royce’s “I Wanna Get Next to You” from CAR WASH, rap from Cypress Hill and Cube, and Dr. Dre’s hit “Keep Their Heads Ringin’.” — TV GUIDE.
Admission is free, but registration is required via this link, https://events.miami.edu/event/watching_movies_with_nadege_green_friday.

Global Frontiers Screening Series: Mariupolis (2016)
2022-12-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for our second installment in a new breakthrough monthly film series at the Cosford Cinema focusing on current world issues such as migration and social inclusion, peace and security, aging populations, democracy, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
The series is intended to bring two types of audiences together: Movie lovers and people who care about current events.
Each screening will be preceded by a wide-ranging, multi-media conversation between Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez and a special guest.
The series continues on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 5 p.m. with “Mariupolis” (2016), a documentary portrait of Ukrainians going about their daily lives — work, home, spending time with their families — while bombs, death and destruction encroach their city.
Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed in April 2022 while trying to leave Mariupol, shows the city’s then-500,000 residents, working for the steel factory and fishing, for leisure or food, in between shifts. The orthodox church towers above the city and its newly built bronze domes are sitting next to it, waiting to be donned. A tent nearby is sheltering a crying icon, which receives a steady flow of visitors.
The screening will be preceded by a 25-minute discussion between Rodriguez and Dina Moulioukova, lecturer at the University of Miami and co-editor of “Russia and the World in the Putin Era.” The conversation will focus on peace and war, human stories in embattled countries, and hyper-realism in cinema. The discussion will include clips from other movies exploring similar subject matter.
Watch this video for more information, https://vimeo.com/775806194.

Fall 2022 Commencement Reception
2022-12-16 13:00 - 16:00 | School of Communication Courtyard, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Dean Wilkins cordially invites you to join our graduates at the School of Communication Fall 2022 Commencement Reception immediately following the Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

Cafecito with Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante
2023-01-17 10:45 - 12:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Please join us Tuesday, Jan. 17, for cafecito and conversation with journalism scholar and historian Celeste González de Bustamante, Professor and Centennial Chair in Communication, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
Cafecito and Research Talk: How Journalists Survive Violence(s): Examining Pathways of Resistance and Resilience in Mexico. Center for Communication, Culture and Change, Wolfson 1021, 10:45 am.
Abstract: At least 17 media workers were killed in Mexico in 2022, making last year the deadliest year on record for Mexico, which ranks as the most dangerous country in the world for those whose profession is to inform their communities. Since 2000, more than 165 journalists have been killed. Despite a federal law that makes it a crime to attack journalists or human rights workers, the conditions continue to be dire. Corrupt government officials collude with organize crime groups in attempts to silence journalists, and reporters who work on the country’s periphery are at most risk. For more than 10 years, Drs. Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly have been examining how journalists on the country’s periphery have responded to mounting pressures and continued threats. In this talk, Dr. González de Bustamante discusses how journalists have turned to one another and to their communities to resist pressures and create their own networks of resilience. A lack of support from media owners, the government, and the public, journalists have taken it upon themselves to become their own activists.

UMTV General Body Meeting
2023-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Learn about on-air, producing, writing, and crew positions for any of UMTV’s different shows. All majors accepted. No experience needed.

The Sight & Sound Top Ten: 'Jeanne Dielman'
2023-01-29 13:00 - 17:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time.
Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics and journalists from around the world. The results are published in Sight & Sound, a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute.
Some screenings in the series will be followed by a panel discussion featuring local critics and scholars.
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES | YEAR: 1975 | DIRECTOR: Chantal Akerman | 2K DCP projection | RUNNING TIME: 202 minutes | UNRATED (contains adult themes, sexual situations) | IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick.
In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

'Knock at the Cabin' Free Screening
2023-01-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Come catch an early *free* screening of the latest thriller by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “Split”) at the Cosford Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Monday Jan. 30.
Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge star as a couple with an adopted daughter who get a knock at the door of their remote cabin. The four visitors (led by Dave Bautista) inform the two men and their child that one of them must die in order to save the world from extinction.
Based on the novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay, the Universal Pictures thriller co-stars Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Abby Quinn. The movie is rated R for violence and language.
Admission is FREE but registration is required at link, https://events.miami.edu/event/knock_at_the_cabin_free_preview_screening. UM students get priority seating. Ticket does not guarantee admission so please arrive early.

Hargrove by Eliane Henri
2023-02-01 19:00 - 21:30 | Gusman Concert Hall, 1314 Miller Dr, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
This film chronicles the journey of trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s last year as he embarks on his final European summer tour while reflecting on his life and the wisdom he wants to impart on young musicians. Screening is followed by panel discussion with filmmaker Eliane Henri.

Basic Blackboard
2023-02-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
This Blackboard for Beginners class will help new faculty, adjuncts, or anyone who hasn’t used Blackboard previously. It will cover how to set up your gradebook, how to take attendance, how to upload your syllabus, assignments, and other coursework. Depending on how comfortable the group is, we’ll move on include setting up tests/quizzes on Blackboard, how to calculate a grade dropping the lowest grade(s), how to create a portal for students to submit their work via Blackboard, etc.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://miami.zoom.us/j/92316586399?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 923 1658 6399
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Media Management Association Meeting
2023-02-02 18:30 - 19:30 | Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Anthony Santana, chief marketing officer at Hardcore Advertising, will share his professional insights into the evolution of social media marketing.
