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FILMS FOR THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER!
As you loll about at the beach and get too hot, detour to pick up three films about dogs. Available for viewing in the Film Library-room 206 Lasserre Building!
ALUMNA GHAZAL AZARBAD ADMITTED TO THE SOULPEPPER ACADEMY!
A 2015 BFA Acting Grad and winner of the 2014 Hnatyshyn National award for Emerging Artist – English theatre, this is an enormous accomplishment.
BFA ACTING ALUMNA LAARA SADIQ BUSY AT HER CRAFT.
“I dove headlong into the professional world as soon as I finished the program, and I truly believe that the ease of that transition had everything to do with my training at UBC.”
PROFESSOR KIRSTY JOHNSTON PUBLISHES!
“Disability Theatre and Modern Drama; Recasting Modernism”
SUMMER JOBS? FIPR STUDENT MIKE JOHNSTON WORKS IN THE INDUSTRY!
“I began my career in film PA’ing and gripping on shows as a volunteer and now I have worked my way up to being a department head.” Photo: Mike on set with alumni Jay Kamal (First Assistant Camera) and Stirling Bancroft, CSC (Camera Operator).
CONGRATS JULIA HENDERSON ON YOUR HONOURABLE MENTION!
Photo credit: ALBERTINE, IN FIVE TIMES by Michel Tremblay. Tarragon Theatre, 1985.
CONGRATS TO ALUMNA ASTRID JANSON ON HER DORA WIN!
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards awarded Astrid Janson (Production/Design MA, 1972) and her colleague Melanie McNeill an award for Outstanding Costume Design for The Great War, VideoCabaret.
STUDENT LINNEA RITLAND’S FILM CIRCULATES AT FILM FESTIVALS.
CALL FOR A GOOD TIME (from FIPR 233) is currently making the very-small-film-festival rounds.

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FILMS FOR THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER! As you loll about at the beach and get too hot, detour to pick up three films about dogs. Available for viewing in the Film Library-room 206 Lasserre Building!

ALUMNA GHAZAL AZARBAD ADMITTED TO THE SOULPEPPER ACADEMY! "I went in ready to be changed, moulded, torn apart and put back together. Except what happened is that I was told, "You Are Enough.""

BFA ACTING ALUMNA LAARA SADIQ BUSY AT HER CRAFT. "Who knew that John Brockington’s language of the fan, Charlie Siegel’s beat structure, or Stephen Malloy’s attention to the intricacies of character development would serve me so well performing Oscar Wilde, Judith Thompson or Michel Tremblay."

UBC FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM OFFERS A WEEKEND WORKSHOP Motion Picture Industry Orientation. Sept 10/11, 2016.

PROFESSOR KIRSTY JOHNSTON PUBLISHES! Kirsty Johnston publishes her book, "Disability Theatre and Modern Drama; Recasting Modernism".

SUMMER JOBS? FIPR STUDENT MIKE JOHNSTON WORKS IN THE INDUSTRY! "The UBC Film Production program has provided me with the network and connections to successfully begin a career in the industry."

CONGRATS JULIA HENDERSON ON YOUR HONOURABLE MENTION! Theatre Studies PHD candidate Julia Henderson has received an honourable mention from the Robert C. Lawrence Prize Committee for her paper, “Resisting Dominant Ideologies of Aging: Sally Clark’s Moo and Ten Ways To Abuse An Old Woman”.

CONGRATS TO ALUMNA ASTRID JANSON ON HER DORA WIN! Outstanding Costume Design for The Great War, VideoCabaret.

STUDENT LINNEA RITLAND’S FILM CIRCULATES AT FILM FESTIVALS. CALL FOR A GOOD TIME (from FIPR 233) is currently making the very-small-film-festival rounds.

VIFF SHOWCASES PROFESSOR RACHEL TALALAY IN MASTERCLASS Rachel Talalay will be speaking on July 9.

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UBC FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM OFFERS A WEEKEND WORKSHOP on September 10, 2016 10:00 am
HARVEST IMPROV on September 22, 2016 7:00 pm
EDWARD II BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE on September 29, 2016 7:30 pm - October 15, 2016 7:30 pm
BECKETT 16 BY SAMUEL BECKETT on November 3, 2016 7:30 pm
LOVE AND INFORMATION BY CARYL CHURCHILL on January 19, 2017 7:30 pm - February 4, 2017 7:30 pm
LES BELLES-SOEURS BY MICHEL TREMBLAY on March 16, 2017 7:30 pm - April 1, 2017 7:30 pm
CANADIAN FILM DAY CELEBRATION on April 19, 2017 7:30 pm

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