Short Film by UCF Grad Screens at Florida Film Festival
March 14, 2014 Gabrielle Tillenburg’s short film Fantasy Land will be screening during the Florida Film Festival in Winter Park next month. The film follows the UCF alumna’s journey to revisit Disney’s Magic Kingdom and explore her childhood relationship with her now-deceased father, with the hope of discovering whether those memories were just...
UCF Alum Flourishes on New York Art Scene
February 13, 2014 In a culture that tends to fixate on fame and fortune, it is easy to overlook the real success achieved by everyday people living their dream. UCF alum Elana Eda Rubinfeld is one of those people. After graduating from UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, Elana moved to New...
UCF Alum's Screenplay To Premiere at Sundance
January 08, 2014 The One I Love, a film written by Justin Lader (Film B.F.A. ’06), will premiere at the 30th annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The quirky comedy stars Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss as a troubled couple, while Ted Danson plays the therapist urging them to take a...
UCF Grads Launch Animation Studio
October 23, 2013 In 2010, alumni Joe Rosa, Heather Knott, and Chris Brown launched a new animation studio in Central Florida. Ninjaneer Studios is a full-service studio specializing in 3-D animation and projection mapping. The group founded Ninjaneer shortly after graduating with B.A. degrees in Digital Media: Visual Language. All three specialized in...
Film Grad Among "25 People Shaping the Future of Design"
October 23, 2013 Complex Magazine has named UCF alum Nick Briz to its online list of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design.” Nick Briz (B.F.A. Film, 2009) is a new-media artist, educator, and organizer. He is also a co-founder of GLI.TC/H, an international conference, festival, and gathering for glitch artists, coders, theorists,...
Movie by UCF Grad Featured in MIT Technology Review
October 07, 2013 MIT Technology Review recently reviewed The Perfect 46, a feature film written and directed by UCF alum Brett Bonowicz. Read the review online. Bonowicz screened the film at the Consumer Genetics Conference in Boston on September 25. The story centers around a genome-analysis company that has developed an algorithm to...
Film Grad Featured in Acclaimed Literary Journal
September 13, 2013 “Flamingo City,” a short story by UCF alum Giovanna Varela was recently published in Folio, a nationally recognized literary journal. Folio, founded in 1984 and based at American University in Washington, D.C., includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Folio is also known for interviews with prominent writers and has published...
Photography Alum Shooting for The New York Times
August 16, 2013 The New York Times recently published photographs by Aldrin Capulong, a 2010 graduate of UCF’s Bachelor of Science in Photography. His photos accompany an article on the mysterious deaths of marine life in the Indian River estuary. Capulong’s images appear in the August 8 print edition and the online article...
Digital Media Alum Selected for Art Directors Guild Apprenticeship
July 09, 2013 Recent graduate Kate Weddle (B.A., 2010) was accepted into the Art Directors Guild’s new Production Apprentice Program. Kate is one of only four inductees in the program’s inaugural class. She was selected from a pool of more than 90 applicants. Weddle, a writer and designer, specialized in Character Animation while...
Alum's Experimental Film Screens in Brooklyn
January 08, 2013 UCF alum Metrah Pashaee’s new experimental video Talking Me was selected from 350 international submissions to screen at the Microscope Gallery’s now what program in Brooklyn. Talking Me is a cinematic Dadaist collage comprised of appropriations from online videos. By subtly manipulating preexisting pieces and choreographing these images to a...
Art grads ‘Face Off’ in NYC art exhibit
October 05, 2010 UCF alumni Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison face off with more than 100 individual drawings in their “Tall Tales” exhibit, featured at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City through Nov. 13. Read the complete article from UCF Today.