Environmental Media Initiative
The EMI brings together environmental scientists with film and media scholars drawn from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to collaborate on teaching, research, and public programming. The EMI explores all of the ways media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit each other: the environment in media, media in the environment. More>
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The Art of Science Media (FLMST 189SM)
How can we create a scientifically literate public and communicate science in a relevant, engaging way? Combining theory and practice, Paula Apsell, senior executive producer of NOVA, explores the science narrative as it is found on television, radio, online and print.
Apply Now: Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media
Student immerse themselves in learning the essential elements of producing an environmental documentary film - from learning about local ocean and coastal issues, to developing a storyline and understanding its impact on an audience, to the nuts-and-bolts of video production itself. Students produce their own films and screen them at the Pollock Theater. See for yourself.
Dirty Little Secret Wins Top Green Student Film Award
Dirty Little Secret, a film by UC Santa Barbara students produced in the Carsey-Wolf Center's GreenScreen environmental filmmaking program, has won top prize for the Green Living Project's inaugural Student Film Project. The film follows two surfers on their quest to make an eco-neutral surfboard. Along the way, the surfers learn about environmental concerns and modern-day solutions. More>
