Organizations

Graduates in Film Association (GFA)

The UC Davis Graduates in Film Association is an interdisciplinary, campus-wide organization of UC Davis graduate students working on film and digital media from multiple theoretical and technical perspectives, created to foster an awareness of scholarly achievements about film. Our mission is to provide a venue and opportunity for a community of film scholars to present and share with colleagues their scholarly film interests, accomplishments, and filmic productions.

UC Davis Film Symposium
For this purpose, we offer the twice-a-year UC Davis Film Symposium, open for submissions from both graduates and faculty as well as other regional University of California and California State universities. We will begin accepting submissions for the 2008 UC Davis Spring Film Symposium January 15, 2008.

For information about the UC Davis Film Symposium, please contact the co-chairs:

Jessica Hope Jordan, Ph.D. Candidate
Coordinator, GFA
jhjordan@ucdavis.edu

Andrew Hageman
Co-Chair, UC Davis Film Symposium
achageman@ucdavis.edu.

Listserv:
We additionally maintain a campus-wide listserv for announcements on local and regional film-related research and events. If you would like to subscribe to our listserv, please email the Coordinator, Jessica Hope Jordan, at jhjordan@ucdavis.edu with your request, university affiliation, and interests and accomplishments in or about film and film-related media.

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The UCD Documentary Studies Research Cluster / RIG

The UCD Documentary Studies Research Cluster / RIG presents (and co- presents) a series of screening/ discussion events focusing on documentary filmmaking and studies.

Comprised of informal lunchtime brown-bag screenings as well as events organized by other UCD entities such as the Consortium for Women and Research and the Cultural Studies, this series aims to provide a forum for discussing Documentary Studies issues such as (for example) factuality, hybrid forms of storytelling, and representation of subjects.

We'd also like to draw your attention to a number of documentary films that will be screened and discussed as part of this year's Campus Book Project. See Events section on the FMS website.

We invite all faculty, students, and members of the Davis community to these events.

If you have or know of a documentary-related project that could be included in this series in future quarters, please reply with an email to jfwyman@ucdavis.edu

Julie Wyman
Assistant Professor
Program in Technocultural Studies
Department of Art & Art History
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-5720

Office: Art 318
Office Phone: 530.752.5064
Reception: 530.752-0105
Fax: 530.752.0795
Email: jfwyman@ucdavis.edu

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The Sacramento French Film Festival (SFFF)

The Sacramento French Film Festival (SFFF) is in its 8^th year!
Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, downtown Sacramento

Each June, over two weekends in mid to late June, SFFF:

premieres new French feature-length films;
screens rare classic masterpieces;
premieres new local and French short films (courts métrages);
invites submissions of local short film productions
organizes midnight movie screenings with breakfast and post-film discussions;
holds post-film discussions for cinéphiles with film scholars, and with directors;
invites volunteer help for outreach and festival organization

For all SFFF-related information, contact:
Cécile Mouette Downs
Executive & Artistic Director
Sacramento French Film Festival
2634 28th Street
Sacramento, CA 95818
916-455-9390 / Cell: 916-396-9147
www.SacramentoFrenchFilmFestival.org

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Davis Feminist Film Festival

2008 will be the FOURTH year of the Davis Feminist Film Festival!

Started in 2005, The Annual Davis Feminist Film Festival is a grassroots effort of local activists, students, and faculty affiliated with Gender and Global Issues at UC Davis. This festival, each February, celebrates local cultural workers & filmmakers while highlighting the links between local, national, and international social struggle.

The first annual Davis Feminist Film Festival was a fundraiser for the Gender and Global Issues Scholarship fund. Each year, Gender and Global Issues (GGI) from UC Davis sends brilliant, motivated students abroad to work with grassroots women's NGOs that work towards promoting human rights. These internships give students a chance to see an alternative, feminist model for international development work, in which they are learning from and working for local activists. The scholarship fund helps lower-income students to afford the internships, where they work on a purely volunteer basis.

The Gender and Global Issues Program
Gender and Global Issues is a research, teaching and outreach academic subgroup of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. Our interdisciplinary focus on gender issues includes African American and African Studies, Animal Science, Anthropology, Chicana/o Studies, Nutrition, and Sociology. Those who participate in GGI reflect the heterogeneity of the global community in both interests and backgrounds. We work to form creative links for the university between academics & activists, both locally and globally.

For further information, please consult the DFFF website: http://wms.ucdavis.edu/ggisite/dfff/index.html or contact http://femfilmfest@ucdavis.edu; (530) 752-8205.

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Filmmakers' Ambitions

Website: www.fafilms.com
President: Stephen Pitt, sjpitt@ucdavis.edu
Email: fa@fafilms.com
This UC Davis club is a network of student filmmakers and focuses on promoting students' experience in making films. Weekly meetings are held every Thursday at 8:30 PM in 198 Young Hall.

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