Apr 4, 2010

By Esteban O Sullivan

The SpringBoard dinner will take place on April 9 at the Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave. For more information, call the Civic Media Center at (352) 373-0100.

Apr 4, 2010

By Nadine Navarro

Why UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute is relocating to Wake Forest

The notorious UF budget cuts have brought opportunity to another institution.
While the cuts have affected every college in the university in some way – some more than others – they’ve had a particularly interesting effect on UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute, which will permanently close its doors [...]

Mar 29, 2010

By Lydia Fiser

I don’t have much to say about this other than watch it. Staceyann Chin is truthful and raw and reminds me why free speech is so essential.
I know that about three minutes into this, almost every man will shun away, click out of the blog post, close his laptop, and run. Don’t. Keep watching.
Staceyann teaches [...]

Feb 23, 2010

By Erin Cass

Tonight Wild Iris is hosting a film screening of the documentary Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women. The video is only half an hour long, so it’s worth stopping by if you can!
According to Jean Kilbourne, one of the main arguments of the video “is that advertising, as perhaps the primary storyteller [...]

Feb 19, 2010

By Erin Cass

I’m new to the whole blogging “thing”, so hopefully I can do TFP justice! Last night the CMC held an awesome film screening of Market This! Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation, which was sponsored by G-ville’s Queer Activist Coaltion (QAC).

Myself being a member of QAC, I was pretty excited. Aside from the fact [...]