Motion Pictures

As part of the University of Miami Alumni Association's Professional Development Month, the Greater Los Angeles Alumni Club will be hosting a 'Canes in Entertainment Panel on April 21 at the Hollywood Improv.   Los Angeles alumni may attend in person for drink specials and networking. Students and alumni based elsewhere may watch and ask questions live at our streaming link.   Join us on Monday, April 21: 6:45PM PST @ Hollywood Improv on 8162 Melrose Ave (Doors Open at 6:15PM.) 9:45PM EST @ www.ustream.tv/channel/um-los-angeles   Featuring: Rachel Brill (Vice President, [...]

Forbes Magazine has honored alumnus Jason Stein on its annual "30 Under 30" list of young influencers in media. Stein, '07 M.F.A., Screenwriting, founded Laundry Service, a full-service social media agency, just two years ago. The company now has more than 30 employees in New York and L.A., and has worked with some of the most important brands in the world, including Disney, Amazon, Universal, Spafinder, Essence and Desigual. Stein is also a founding and managing partner of Windforce Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage social media and [...]

The Silver Mirror, a feature-length global documentary film on the topic of Aging in 21st century written, directed and produced by Ali Habashi, a faculty member at the Department of Cinema and interactive Media and shot entirely by Ed Talavera, the Department chair, had its New York premiere on Tuesday, February 11th at Myrna P. Daniels Auditorium in Columbia University. The premiere was hosted by the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University and followed up by an engaging panel discussion that included Dr. Ruth Fischbach, the Director of the Center for [...]

Salvation Army, the rapturous debut feature from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa will premiere at the Cosford Cinema on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m. followed with a special  Q&A with the filmmaker and scholars. The film offers a charged, semi-autobiographical tale about a young graduate who must navigate the sexual, racial, and political intrigue surrounding his arrival in Geneva. Inspired by his own autobiographical novel, Taïa's Salvation Army is a story of coming of age, folding and unfolding with love, pain, desire, and violence. This film is structured in a diptych: [...]

By Alysha Kahn, Journalism senior First year graduate student Shareen Dookie said it was the “most interesting” Spring Break she had ever had. She and 14 of her classmates spent eight days in Guatemala shooting short documentaries about local health and social issues. “Learning about another culture, meeting new people, and seeing a different way of life in only one week can be overwhelming, but this experience was more fun and interesting than anything I've ever done on Spring Break,” said Dookie. The study abroad program is part of the [...]