To share opportunities, projects, and cinematic visions in and for Alaska. Hosted by the Film and Per
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To share opportunities, projects, and cinematic visions in Alaska, about Alaska, and for Alaskans. Hosted by the Film Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Did you know Sundace is coming to the UAF Troth Yeddha' campus this Thursday?! Join us for the 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour, a 83-minute theatrical program featuring eight short films from Indigenous filmmakers in the Salisbury Theatre located in the Fine Arts Complex on Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 6:00pm (that's today!).
Tickets are FREE but must be reserved. Use the link in the comments to reserve your tickets today.
We are so proud of these creative forces emerging from the UAF Theatre & Film Dept as leaders, not just in the industry, but in our state and nation. Congratulations Trysh and Nolan!
Thaw Out Film Fest is tonight, featuring films made in Fairbanks! Come join us and get a sneak peak of our latest major film project! https://facebook.com/events/s/uaf-film-club-presents-thaw-ou/458661209847065/
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Ready to be in a film? Check out the upcoming auditions next weekend! Looking for diverse actors! Alaska Actors Network. Film will take place in Fairbanks over two long weekends. www.uaf.edu/theatrefilm/auditions
FILM AUDITIONS! Saturday February 10 for LOVE ME - an original film by Film and Performing Arts major Nolan Earnest. Seeking actors 18-85. See our site for details and register for the auditions online: www.uaf.edu/theatrefilm/auditions
Adobe Premiere was used to edit 67% of the movies at Sundance. Luckily that’s what is being taught in “FLPA 260 Digital Video Editing” this semester!
The Sundance Film Festival starts tomorrow, with the usual slate of films and events scheduled in Park City, Utah, and it turns out that over half of them were edited on Adobe Premiere Pro for the sixth year in succession.
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Shout out to our amazing students of the Alaska Native Filmmakers Intensive UAF Theatre & Film Dept in collaboration with Native Movement and Vision Maker Media. These two are now in Vogue Magazine. "Brittany Woods-Orrison and Rodney Evans are two young Indigenous activists in Alaska committed to using their work and art to try to change the trajectory of their homeland, in the hope that all Indigenous people there can be allowed to thrive and to recover traditional ways of life—as well as to chart a future framed by self-determination." https://www.vogue.com/article/tokala-rampart-alaska?fbclid=IwAR0eXFdTuY_4-sVAUP2NKaL9A50H3rUK8XQfAr1lq8cXOG_gkJJxuvVOX1w
Brittany Woods-Orrison and Rodney Evans are committed to using their work and art to try to change the trajectory of their homeland—and to chart a future framed by self-determination.
Film Intensives are available at UAF Theatre & Film Dept for Spring 2024. Courses are offered in six-week formats with 2-weekend intensives. Take one or take them all! Registration is open now. University of Alaska Fairbanks https://www.uaf.edu/handbook/register/process/index.php
5 days to make a horror film!! UAF Theatre & Film Dept UAF Film Club
Alaska Filmmakers has a scary incoming announcement…we’re doing another 5-Day Film Royal, but this time make it spooky!! This year’s program will be apart of the Anchorage Museum Museum After Dark on Oct. 26th.
To register donate $25 or more to and send proof of receipt to [email protected].
Prompt video will drop on Oct. 18th at noon.
As always, you have five days to make your five minutes or less short films. Movies don’t have to be in the horror/thriller genre but they must have a spooky element.
Get those teams assembled and see y’all in the museum 👻
Can’t compete? DM a link to your already created horror film to be included in the collection.
Live performance at Well and Good streets tonight! Starts at 8pm!
Barbie used some old-school Theatre design tricks for filming their transition sequences from the Plastic to the Real world.
Greta Gerwig has talked about how Barbie was inspired by 1950s soundstage musicals, so while filming some scenes they used classic movie and theater tricks.
IATSE stands with their union families.
8246 likes, 155 comments. “My Thoughts On The Strike.”
Congratulations to the participants and winners of the 2023 "Thaw Out Film Festival" presented by the UAF Film Club.
The Thaw Out Film Festival returns! Tonight (6pm) at Hess Rec.
Thaw Out Film Festival submission deadline has been extended to Sunday, April 23. Open to all Alaskans!
Get in on the action!
UAF Film Club is now accepting submissions for this year's Thaw Out Film Festival! Deadline for entering is Sunday, April 18th - the screening will be April 29 at Hess Rec.
https://uaf.edu/theatrefilm/filmclub/index.php
In the news! Thank you to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner for featuring our recent production of "Tumyaraq-qaa" on the front page on April 6, 2023!
The Fairbanks community played the part of a live studio audience for the pilot of the TV show "Tumyaraq-qaa," which was shot in Salisbury Theatre at the University of Alaska
Tumyaraq-qaa production spotlight!
Maya Salganek (Associate Professor of Film and Video Arts) is the founding director of the UAF Film Reel Alaska Mentoring Experience (FRAME). As a filmmaker and educator living on the unceded lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana river, her cinematic work often features the people and stories of Alaska, which aim to decolonize the screen. Maya is dedicated to developing positive role models on film that reflect the diversity of our community. Through her courses and projects, she nurtures visually sovereign storytellers capable of expressing themselves within their own communities, as well as to a wider audience. Maya has worked as a producer or director on dozens of films in Alaska, from feature-length narrative films to NSF funded documentaries about climate change. https://www.mayasalganek.com
Don't miss "Tumyaraq-qaa", written and directed by Kavelina Torres, March 31st - April 2nd, 2023.
https://uaf.edu/theatrefilm/current-season/index.php
NBC affiliate KTVF featured a story about “Tumyaraq-qaa”, which has live tapings in front of a studio audience this weekend.
Performances for Tumyaraq-qaa are sold out. There may be a few seats available at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis once unused tickets are known.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Did you know Sundace is coming to the UAF Troth Yeddha' campus this Thursday?! Join us for the 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour, a 83-minute theatrical program featuring eight short films from Indigenous filmmakers in the Salisbury Theatre located in the Fine Arts Complex on Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 6:00pm (that's today!). Tickets are FREE but must be reserved. Use the link in the comments to reserve your tickets today. #CLAis #Sundance #IndigenousFilm #ExploreFairbanks
Live performance at Well and Good streets tonight! Starts at 8pm! #fairbanksfilm
Actor spotlight: Bruce Hanson (Leonard) hasn’t been on the UAF stage since he directed Working for his Masters project in 2008. He’s grateful to be back and creating with this talented, energetic, and age-challenged cast and crew, and feels privileged to collaborate with the likes of Tom Robenolt. Incidentally, Bruce’s last project had him acting for Tom as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in this past summer’s FST production of Twelfth Night. Don't miss "Seminar", written by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Tom Robenolt, in the Lee H. Salisbury Lab Theatre from March 25th - April 10th, 2022. https://fb.me/e/1hYBFs4nU #CLAis #seminaruaf #TheatreFilmUAF #theatreUAF #NanookNation
Actor spotlight: Charles Wolgemuth (Martin) was born in Mexico, then raised in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Charles Wolgemuth is a current UAF student, working through his second year at UAF. Charles’ “career” dates back to his pre-school days when he became one with the character of a cow in his local church’s Nativity play. Since then, he has participated, as well as helped start his middle school and high school drama club back in Utqiagvik. Since attending UAF, Charles has acted in UAF’s Alaskan Overnighters and Winter Shorts, and online as Ronnie/Orcus in She Kills Monsters and Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, as well as having a role in the film Pink Violet. This is his first role in a full length play in a live theater, and he is ecstatic to be part of this amazing cast and crew! Don't miss "Seminar", written by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Tom Robenolt, in the Lee H. Salisbury Lab Theatre from March 25th - April 10th, 2022. Video edited by Daniel, a student in "FLPA 260: Digital Video Editing". https://fb.me/e/1hYBFs4nU #CLAis #seminaruaf #TheatreFilmUAF #theatreUAF #NanookNation
Dr. Zink, Alaska's Chief Medical Officer shares her official opinion that getting vaccinated is our surest way out of the Pandemic. Get you vaccine now! More info at: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine.aspx
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