Motion Pictures

Through his award-winning documentaries, outreach to local non-profits, and wide-ranging teaching activities, Professor Edmund Talavera strives to make the world a better place. As chair of the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media in the School of Communication, Talavera enjoys creating promotional videos for the University of Miami, organizing alumni fundraising events, and making personal donations to the Momentum2 campaign. “Our University is doing great things,” he says. “As faculty and employees, we all need to show the world that we care about the future of UM.” Talavera’s charitable spirit [...]

Cosford Cinema celebrates its new 4K digital projector with 3D capabilities with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller DIAL M FOR MURDER. The film screening will feature an introduction from Hitchcockian scholar William Rothman.The film event is Sunday, October 12 at 6PM. British tennis pro Ray Milland suspects that his wealthy wife Grace Kelly is fooling around with handsome American Robert Cummings. Milland blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering Kelly and making it look like the work of a burglar. But Milland’s carefully mapped-out scheme [...]

Television director and producer David Nutter, who has directed hit television shows including Game of Thrones, Homeland and Entourage, has given a significant gift to support the School of Communication’s First Feature Film Fund, as part of the University of Miami’s Momentum2 campaign. The Fund enables Motion Pictures students to complete a feature-length film while they’re working at UM, a critical step toward a career in filmmaking, said Ed Talavera, chair of the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media. “It’s invaluable to our students to have a completed film,” he [...]

Screening the first 3-D film shown on campus, The Lego Movie, last week, the Bill Cosford Cinema inaugurated the ambitious technology upgrades the Division of Student Affairs, in partnership with the School of Communication and the student Cinematic Arts Commission (CAC), completed over the summer. “This technological upgrade for the Bill Cosford Cinema is terrific and timely for the University of Miami,” said Patricia A. Whitely, UM’s vice president for student affairs, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the Cosford’s new BARCO digital cinema projectors and Dolby 3D system. “This new [...]

Professor of Motion Pictures William Rothman will deliver a BookTalk, "Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock," on Wednesday, September 3 at 8 p.m. at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave. in Coral Gables. The talk is free and open to the public, and is produced in conjunction with the University of Miami Center for the Humanities. A livestream of the event will be available at http://new.livestream.com/uainmedia/rothman. Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision [...]

School of Communication alumnus Bryce Dion, M.F.A. ’04, was shot and killed Tuesday, August 26, while covering a shootout between police and an armed robber as a sound supervisor on the television show “COPS.” The School of Communication extends its deepest sympathy to Dion’s family and friends, and shares this remembrance from Associate Professor John Soliday, who was Director of Graduate Studies and led UM’s Film Directing Program when Dion received his M.F.A. Bryce Dion was one of my all-time favorite graduate students. I recruited, enrolled, and advised Bryce. He [...]