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Documentary Nominated in Several Categories at International Film Festival

The 2018 London International Filmmakers Festival recognized a feature documentary co-produced and edited by Konstantia Kontaxis, associate professor for the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, with nominations in several categories. Last Song to Xenitia is nominated for Best Film, Best Editing of a Feature Documentary, and Best Cinematography in a Feature Documentary. “We made this film thinking that it would appeal primarily to Greek or Greek-American audiences. It is wonderful to see that it resonates with an international audience,” said Kontaxis. The documentary centers around Vasiliki, a centenarian poet [...]

2019-12-17T19:24:15-05:00January 12, 2018|Motion Pictures|
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Research Grant Recipients Announced

A total of five faculty members spread across three departments were recently announced as the 2017 – 2018 recipients of the Creative Activity and Research Grants. The funding supports work that will result in clear and prominent scholarly and/or creative accomplishments that support the enhanced reputation of the School of Communication. Wan-Hsiu “Sunny” Tsai, William Hughes, and Juliana Fernandes from the Department of Strategic Communication, Victoria Oreggo Dunleavy from the Department of Communication Studies, and Michelle Seelig from the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media were selected by an interdisciplinary [...]

2019-12-17T19:24:40-05:00October 18, 2017|Advertising, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Motion Pictures|
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Stano Recognized with SND Lifetime Achievement Award

Randy Stano, professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Media Management at University of Miami School of Communication, has added the Society for News Design’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award to his long list of accomplishments.  This past November, Stano attended the Associated Collegiate Press Conference where Sara Quinn, outgoing president for the Society of News Design (SND), invited him for an early morning breakfast. Quinn was the first person to tell Stano he was being recognized. “Telling him [Stano] he had been chosen for the award was so [...]

2019-12-17T19:24:52-05:00April 26, 2017|Journalism, Public Relations|
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68th Annual Student Media Awards

University of Miami School of Communication is hosting the 68th Annual Student Media Awards on May 2. “The Student Media Awards are a chance to recognize students for all their hard work throughout the academic year,” said Sam Terilli, department chair for the Department of Journalism and Media Management and associate professor. This year’s guest speaker is alumnus Bryan Llenas, B.S.C. ’10, who works as a New York-based correspondent for Fox News Channel. In 2015, Llenas moderated University of Miami President Julio Frenk’s town hall. The Student Media Awards are sponsored [...]

2019-12-17T19:25:11-05:00April 24, 2017|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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UM Sweeps CinemaSlam

Students and alumni from the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media were the overwhelming winners at CinemaSlam, the student competition division of the 34th Annual Miami Film Festival, taking home six out of eight awards.  “I was not surprised by the success of the films. These were ambitious short films by very talented young filmmakers that were worthy of the attention they received,” said Konstantia Kontaxis, associate professor and CinemaSlam liaison for UM. School of Communication students and alumni won awards for Best Actor, Best Technical Achievement, Best Director, Best [...]

2019-12-17T19:25:28-05:00April 13, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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UM Publications and Adviser Dominate National Conferences

This semester, Ibis Yearbook, distraction Magazine, and their adviser, Randy Stano, were recognized with top awards at several media conventions. Stano, distraction and Ibis editorial adviser and professor of practice in journalism at University of Miami School of Communication, was honored with the Montgomery Distinguished Service Award at the College Media Association Convention in Atlanta. Named for Reid H. Montgomery, former president and treasurer of the CMA, the award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to collegiate media advising. “I enjoy seeing the success the students have [...]

2019-12-17T19:25:42-05:00December 14, 2016|Journalism|
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Distraction Print, Online Announced as Pacemaker Finalists

Distraction magazine and its website, distractionmagazine.com, have both been announced as Pacemaker finalists.  Presented annually by the Associated Collegiate Press, the Pacemaker awards recognize collegiate publications for their content, design, photography, and graphics. The stakes were high in both categories; the judges narrowed down 96 magazines to 22 finalists, and 137 online entries to 30 finalists. Rori Kotch, editor-in-chief of the nominated issue, submitted the fourth and final magazine of the last academic year to the ACP. She credits the nomination to both the magazine’s content and covers, saying that [...]

2019-12-17T19:25:56-05:00August 31, 2016|Journalism|
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MFA Student Awarded WaveMaker Grant

April Dobbins, a graduate student in the motion pictures program, has been awarded a $10,000 WaveMaker grant for her Alabamaland documentary film. WaveMaker grants, administered by Miami-based non-profit Cannonball, recently presented artists with funding. Fourteen WaveMaker Grants winners were selected from more than 100 applicants. Each WaveMaker grantee was awarded up to $10,000 and $100,000 was awarded in total. Dobbins works full-time as the director of prestigious awards and fellowships in the Office of Academic Enhancement and is half-time in the motion pictures M.F.A. program.  She used the funds to [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:11-05:00August 9, 2016|Interactive Media|
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UM’s M.F.A. in Interactive Media Students Win Sea Level Rise Challenge

The Interactive Canes Team, composed of students from the Interactive Media M.F.A. program at the University of Miami School of Communication, won first place in the AeroTech-Concursive Sea Level Rise Challenge. The contest, sponsored by the Old Dominion University Center for Enterprise Innovation’s (CEI) grant program GOV2COM and the Strome Entrepreneurial Center, asked innovators to devise a mobile application that would efficiently deal with the economic and life threatening consequences produced by sea level rise and flooding in Norfolk, Virginia. “Norfolk and Miami, like many other coastal communities, face similar [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:25-05:00July 26, 2016|Interactive Media|
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The Miami Hurricane Wins 10 Florida Sunshine State Awards

University of Miami’s student-run newspaper, The Miami Hurricane, was recognized with 10 Society of Professional Journalists Florida Sunshine State Awards, including nine first place awards, on July 9 during the 22nd annual competition at the Firefighters Memorial Building in Miami. The Miami Hurricane, under editor Nicholas Gangemi, B.S. ’16, was awarded Best Student Publication and Best Website in Florida, competing in the college newspaper high frequency sub-category. The high frequency sub-category evaluates newspapers published five more or times per month. To win Best Student Publication, three issues of the newspaper [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:37-05:00July 13, 2016|Journalism|
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