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Media Fields research collective publishes Media Inside Out

CWC launches new Media Industries – AI Research Initiative

CWC event with editor and UCSB alum featured in The Current

Ross Melnick appointed as Carsey-Wolf Center interim director

The Carsey-Wolf Center thanks outgoing Dick Wolf Director Patrice Petro

Media 4 Nonprofits Internship Program: apply now!

Student staff Katelyn Mihalko profiled by the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts

Article about documentary Monkey on a Stick featured in the UCSB Current

Still from the student film The Kelp We Breathe. It depicts a scuba diver swimming amidst kelp. They are in a scuba suit, with an oxygen mask and scuba fins.

CWC-supported short films selected to screen at SBIFF

Illustration of hand holding a microphone in a linocut print style.

CWC event with Carol Stabile featured in the UCSB Current

An image of UCSB lecturer and producer Wendy Eley Jackson from her interview in the UCSB Current. She is pictured sitting in the Pollock Theater with a bucket of popcorn in hand. She dons a floral dress and red lipstick.

Storytelling for the Screen instructor Wendy Eley Jackson featured in the UCSB Current

CWC event with UCSB alum featured in the Current

CWC-supported documentary featured in the UCSB Current

Coastal Media and GreenScreen instructor awarded fellowship

CWC’s Panic! series featured in the SB Independent

Panic! in the UCSB Current

The Citizen featured in the UCSB Current

Jess X. Snow residency featured in the UCSB Current

The Tragedy of Macbeth event featured in the SB Independent

The Tragedy of Macbeth event featured in the UCSB Current

Two Coastal Media Project films screening at SBIFF 2024

Stage photo of Meg Ryan and Brad Silberling at UCSB's Pollock Theater. They sit next to each other on chairs smiling towards the audience(off screen). Meg Ryan (right) has blonde short hair, she wears black slacks and a black trench coat. Brad Silberling (left) has shoulder length black hair, he wears grey jeans and a black polo shirt.

When Harry Met Sally event with Meg Ryan featured in the Santa Barbara Independent

In a still from the TV movie Napa Ever After, two actors are embracing in a vineyard. They are both wearing beige clothing and smiling.

Storytelling for the Screen faculty member Wendy Eley Jackson in the UCSB Current

Actor Thomas Brodie Sangster appears in a still from The Artful Dodger television series. He is wearing 19th century period clothing and brandishing a scalpel.

New work from Storytelling for the Screen faculty: The Artful Dodger

A large group of dancers sits on a darkened stage. A red ladder extends up through the middle of the image.

New CWC-supported publication: Realisms in East Asian Performance

A still from the film Nashville, depicting a young woman with brown hair and a white dress singing passionately into a silver microphone.

Revisiting Nashville in the UCSB Current

In memoriam: Clarence Barlow

Tár event featured in UCSB Current

Coastal Media Project film “Whale-Roads” featured at SBIFF

A Thousand Cuts event featured in UCSB Current

A still from the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, depicting a woman in ornate traditional Ukrainian grab in the foreground behind a row of candles, with a group of men in the background.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors screening featured in UCSB Current

A headshot of Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSB Mireille Miller-Young. She is wearing a leather jacket, statement necklace, pink lipstick, and blue undereye shadow. She is posing with part of her jacket obscuring her face in front of a neutral white background.

Black Hollywood series and Woman King event featured in UCSB Current

Gerardo Aldana and Wakanda Forever profiled in UCSB Current

The Films of Clarence Barlow event profiled in UCSB Current

Fall 2022 “Big Screen” Events profiled in UCSB Current

CWC featured in the Montecito Journal

Media+Environment online journal: Modeling the Pacific

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

Spring 2022 Events profiled in UCSB Current

In-person Pollock Theater events return in 2022

‘Shang-Chi’ Q&A Featured by UCSB Humanities and Fine Arts

‘Lingua Franca’ Event Featured in The Santa Barbara Independent

Subversives Series Profiled in the Santa Barbara News-Press

‘Sorry to Bother You’ Event Featured on KCSB

Global TV profiled in UCSB Current

Sona Sherman holding a video camera

GreenScreen Student Sonya Sherman Featured in Santa Fe New Mexican

Borders profiled in UCSB Current

Tom Pollock in the Pollock Theater

In memoriam: Tom Pollock (1943-2020)

‘The Great Dictator’ Event Featured in The Daily Nexus

“Crip Camp” Virtual Discussion Featured in the UCSB Current

Image of actor Paul Rubens in the role of Pee-wee Herman from Pee-wee's Playhouse

Subversives featured in the Santa Barbara Independent

Sorry to Bother You movie poster

“Sorry to Bother You” Q&A Featured in UCSB Current

Promotional poster for 10 Miles Out

GreenScreen Alum Preston Maag Featured in UCSB Current

Metabolic Riffs podcast avatar

Media+Environment Launches “Metabolic Riffs” Podcast

Woman scientist holds beaker up to light

“Picture a Scientist” Virtual Event Featured in UCSB Current

Mother of Chernobyl wins multiple festival awards

Green Screen film Mother of Chernobyl wins Best Student Film award

An interview with executive producer Marcy Carsey

“Script to Screen: Zombieland” featured in the UCSB Current

Award-Winning GreenScreen Film Students Head to Moscow

GreenScreen film “10 Miles Out” to screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

GreenScreen film “Mother of Chernobyl” to screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

“Media + Environment” journal featured in The Current

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” featured in The Independent

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” featured in The Current

Media+Environment journal launches

“Special Effects” series featured in The Independent

“Special Effects” series featured in The Current

Inaugural Carsey-Wolf Center Internship Scholarship recipient

Blue Horizons featured in The Current

“New Waves” series featured in The Current

“New Waves” series featured in The Independent

“Beatles: Revolutions” series featured in the Daily Nexus

“Floyd Norman: An Animated Life” featured in The Current

GreenScreen and Blue Horizons student films featured at SBIFF

“Beatles: Revolutions” series featured in the Independent

Upcoming volume in the Media Matters Series: At Translation’s Edge

“Beatles: Revolutions” series featured in the UCSB Current

“Frankenstein: Afterlives” Series in the Independent

“Frankenstein: Afterlives” Series in the UCSB Current

New volume in the Media Matters Series: Global Cinema Networks

Blue Horizons featured in the UCSB Current

Women in Comedy in the UCSB Current

Mindy Sterling interviewed in the Santa Barbara Independent

“Shakespeare on Film” in the Santa Barbara Independent

“Shakespeare on Film” in the UCSB Current

UCSB’s Documentary Film Program

Screen Gems

Water is Life

CWC Presents - Trans Media

Pollock Theater Hosts Trans Media Series

‘VEEP’ Provides Humorous, Fresh Take on Politics

CWC Presents - Trans Media

Trans Media, Current

‘Raging Bull’ Takes on Violence with Movie Magic

The Artistry of “Raging Bull” with Michael Westmore

Actors for Autism

Green Screen at the SBIFF

Losing Ground: Gaviota Short Film

Lights, Camera, Action: UCSB Current on GreenScreen

“Mussel Man” accepted to SBIFF and SFIOFF

Blue Horizons Screening

Blue Horizons Equips Students, SB Independent

Dirty Little Secret Wins Top Green Student Film Award