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SoC Students Stay Awake for 25 Hours To Create Free Ad Campaigns for Nonprofits

  • Tuesday, 21 February 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • SoC student Carlos Mella shows off work his team created during PhilADthropy, a 25-hour creative marathon to benefit S.Fla nonprofit organizations.
About 100 University of Miami students emerged Saturday from the 25-hour third annual marathon called PhilADthropy feeling sleepy but very accomplished after producing free advertising and public relations materials for 16 local nonprofit organizations. “I was speechless,” said Joanna Horowitz, co-founder of Jody’s Couture for the Cancer Cure after the student group revealed the ad materials they created. Her nonprofit was among the final 16 of almost 100 applications received from area organizations to participate in the event. “I can’t believe everything was done in 25 hours.” The event, which ran from 11 a.m. Friday to noon Saturday, Feb.…

Cosford Cinema to Screen Counterculture Classic "Weekend"

  • Monday, 20 February 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • godard weekend 1967
If the Occupy Movement had a drive-in theater, it would be showing Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film, Weekend. The Bill Cosford Cinema will be screening the French counterculture classic on February 24-26, 2012. Selected as a part of the Cosford’s “Shock Me, Shock Me: A Cinema of Transgression Series,” Weekend poignantly echoes themes of class conflict that have taken recent spotlight. Historic French director, Godard, known for his stylized, existential motifs, tackles greed, consumerism and guerilla-style uprising with this film’s powerful, graphic and violent imagery. The film follows Corinne and Roland, an unfaithful couple who loathe each other to the…

SoC Graduate named Executive Director of Media Relations for UM

  • Friday, 17 February 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • Amore
The University of Miami named Elizabeth “Liz” Amore the new Executive Director of Media Relations. Amore, received her master’s in communication in 2007 from the UM School of Communication. Amore was previously a media relations officer at UM. She is now responsible for strategic communications and public relations for the University. For eight years, Amore worked at UM’s Medical campus with UM-Humana’s Health Services Research Center and the Diabetes Research Institute, where she helped to coordinate research studies. Prior to that, she worked at the Lowe Art Museum handling media communication, marketing, and advertising. She credits the UM School…

SoC Film Professor to Showcase Photography at Wynwood Exhibit through Feb. 24

  • Friday, 10 February 2012
  • Posted By: (iyee@miami.edu)
    • "Bear" a photo by Motion Picture faculty member Jeffrey Stern. Legerdemain is a new exhibit of Stern's photos at UM's Wynwood Project Space through Feb. 24, 2012.
Jeffrey Stern teaches film production and sound design in the School of Communication's Motion Picture program and is credited with sound editing on popular films and television programs, including Silence of the Lambs, Boardwalk Empire, and Goodfellas. But he’s also proficient in a different form of media – photography. Stern presents new photography in "Legerdemain," an exhibit now through Feb. 24, 2012 at the University of Miami's Wynwood Project Space in downtown Miami. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Stern is also pursuing an M.F.A. through UM's Art & Art History program. In "Legerdemain," which means “sleight of hand” in French, viewers…
 
  • Friday February 24

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: DECLARATION OF WAR

    Cosford Screening: 9:00 PM: Godard's WEEKEND - Cosford Classics

  • Saturday February 25

    Cosford Screening: 10:00 PM: 50/50

    Cosford Screening: 11:59 PM: Godard's WEEKEND - Cosford Classics

    Cosford Screening: 2:00 PM: DECLARATION OF WAR

    Cosford Screening: 4:00 PM: DECLARATION OF WAR

    Cosford Screening: 6:00 PM: DECLARATION OF WAR

    Cosford Screening: 8:00 PM: Godard's WEEKEND - Cosford Classics

  • Sunday February 26

    Cosford Screening: 12:00 PM: COPPELIA

    Cosford Screening: 3:30 PM: DECLARATION OF WAR

    Cosford Screening: 5:30 PM: Godard's WEEKEND - Cosford Classics

    Cosford Screening: 8:00 PM: 50/50

  • Friday March 02

    Cosford Screening: 9:15 PM: 17 GIRLS - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

  • Saturday March 03

    Cosford Screening: 6:45 PM: BULLHEAD

    Cosford Screening: 9:30 PM: MOON CHILD - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

  • Sunday March 04

    Cosford Screening: 3:30 PM: PATER - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

  • Friday March 09

    Cosford Screening: 1:00 PM: MOON CHILD - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: THE SCREEN ILLUSION - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 9:00 PM: THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

  • Saturday March 10

    Cosford Screening: 10:00 PM: LAST SCREENING - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 3:00 PM: 17 GIRLS - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 5:15 PM: SMUGGLERS' SONGS - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 7:30 PM: PATER - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

  • Sunday March 11

    Cosford Screening: 3:00 PM: THE SCREEN ILLUSION - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 5:00 PM: SMUGGLERS' SONGS - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 7:00 PM: THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA

    Cosford Screening: 9:00 PM: LAST SCREENING - RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA