Monthly Archives: October 2008

Back from Portugal

Just back from Portugal and 16 hours of sleep. Oporto rocks all day and all night. It was tough to keep up. I don’t know how those who had to be in school today did it.
But it was a blast.
As we were a particularly large group (both of the Ryans, Molly, Keith, [...]

UFrame lowdown

Sergio here, first student to come back to the US from the Uframe experience in Portugal.
I am using this post as a test, so i’ll be brief.
Uframe and Porto were spectacular.  Very well organized, great line up of films, in overall a very strong first installment.  I do have to say though that the main [...]

U.Frame Prizes

Here it is, the Prizes list at U.Frame – International Academic Video Festival, organized by University of Porto between 01 and 05 Oct:
MediaLight Prize
“15 Frames”, Rui Coelho, Portugal
Audience Prize
“Red Wednesday”, Nazanin Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Fiction
Experimental Prize
“Alkhass”, Vasco Portugal, Restart, Portugal
Special Mention / Experimental
“Echo”, Benjamin Moritz Gronau, Filmakademie Baden-Wutenberg, Germany
Animation Prize
“Solos”, David [...]

Andrew Shea and UT at U.Frame

Yesterday Andrew Shea made a great presentation in the master class “The border between fiction and narrative in student filmmaking”, at U.Frame – International Academic Video Festival, in Porto.
We had the opportunity to see and comment some UT students fictional and documentary films, and think about the blurred boundaries between those paradigms (if it’s possible [...]