Gifts to the Film Program at UBC ensure that today's Film students have access to the resources that give them the best education possible. With the costs of education rising and the numbers of students growing, UBC has made a commitment to students that no qualified person be denied a UBC education based on financial ability to pay. Your gift would provide Film students with the opportunity to pursue their passions, and take their achievements out into the world.
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The Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver invites applications for up to 15 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows, to begin 1 July 2010. One of the new Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow positions has been allocated to the UBC Department of Theatre and Film, which has strengths in a number of areas, including Film Studies, Theatre Studies, Film Production and Theatre Production (see www.theatrefilm.ubc.ca). Applications from outstanding applicants in Film Studies are welcome. Additional expertise in Theatre Studies may be considered an asset.
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Professor Ernest Mathijs chatted with the National Post, March 13, 2009:
The Swede picks up speed. Lovingly made, no-budget remakes of popular movies are called "sweded" pictures because, as Jack Black explains in Be Kind Rewind, Sweden is a far-away, expensive country. "I'm not sure how well Michel Gondry was aware of this, but he put his finger on the popular appeal of fans taking ownership," says Ernest Mathijs. "With sweded pictures, audiences are no longer consumers, they co-own the franchise. Sweded pictures are a celebration of the outrageous possibility of a film's alternative universe," Mathijs adds.
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UBC is a host venue for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
