Reel Loud is UCSB's prominent annual student film festival, produced by students for students. The festival not only showcases student films, but also combines one-of-a-kind performances including live bands, acts, and spoken word. Reel Loud is unique in that it allows student filmmakers to connect with the roots of true filmmaking; thus all films must be shot in 16mm film, without the aid of digital processing and computers. Now in its 17th year, the festival continues to exhibit innovative films that push boundaries with the theme "Past, Present, and Future Cinema."
Low cost digital tools have created a revolution in video. Chicano Studies 162 and the Guerilla Digital Video Collective proudly present premiering UCSB student-made short pieces dealing with topics such as undocumented students and minorities in higher education, political and social issues, race and stereotypes, young adults and voting, and LGBTIQ issues. Witness students' creative approaches and practical techniques of independent digital video production and 'guerrilla tactics' for creative and unconventional uses of digital machineries. Free food!
The first annual Isla Vista Digital Video Festival will be featuring the best films of UCSB and SBCC student filmmakers. Sponsored by the UCSB Film/Videomakers Co-Op, the festival will feature shorts, experimental, and music videos including "Suspension," "Bubbles," "Chimes of Gaviota," "Titan Sting," "Tap o Feelia," "Just Say No," "Red Glitter," and "Hope for Tomorrow." The festival will also feature a screening of Joel Schumacher's Tigerland and Q&A with the filmmaker afterward. Come out and watch the best your friends have to offer!
This project, part of the Carsey-Wolf CFTNM Environmental Media Initiative, features three student-produced films. "Shifting Sands at Goleta Beach" traces the values and politics at play in coastal erosion policy, "In Deep" is a part live-action, part animation environmental comedy about global warming, and "Chimes of Gaviota, or: I've Got the Real Estate Blues" tells the story of Gaviota coastline farmer Dylan Jones, who is torn between developing his land for profit and preserving it for the future.
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