Accomplishments: Department of Film
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" to the Roshani International Film Festival for an original short script, The Phatman.
Dale Melgaard (Film) received an "Official Selection" from the Chicago Script Awards festival for the original script "The Phatman."
Assistant professor Adam Paul (Film) was interviewed for Fast Company magazine's article, "How 'Method Dressing' is Boosting Films at the Box Office."
The article examined the phenomenon of film stars appearing at red-carpet premieres dressed similarly to characters they play in those productions. Paul, who has expertise on the craft of acting…
Adam Paul (Film) published a paper and standalone podcast episode titled, "The Voice Actor and Their Double: Working as a voice actor and teaching voice acting in the age of AI voice cloning," in Volume 1, Issue 1 of Tradition-Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education, a new peer-reviewed open access eJournal investigating artificial…
Warren D. Cobb has been named the associate dean of the UNLV College of Fine Arts, where he is responsible for leading community partnerships, initiatives, and projects. Prior to this role, he served as the associate chair and director of Production Operations in the department of film. Warren's expertise in the art, business, and logistics of the…
Professor Diana Eden (Film), who teaches costume design, will be speaking at the Clark County Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 1 as part of its Las Vegas Stories series.
Eden first came through Las Vegas by train in 1961, stopping in the downtown station for a brief 30 minutes, time in which the just turned 21 years old, and was able to…
Tradition-Innovations in Art, Design, and Media Education Panel
Kimberly G. James (Music), Kymberly Mellen (Theatre), Phillip Zawarus (Architecture), Olga Townsend (UNLV Art Alumna), Adam Paul (Film), Julian Kilker (JMS), Timothy Jones (Music), Morgan Iommi (NSC), Alethea Inns (OIT), and Yvonne Houy (College of Fine Arts) presented on "tradition…
UNLV College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy J. Uscher has begun her term as president of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). ICFAD is a vehicle through which members share information and ideas that enhance the leadership of deans and associate deans, provosts and associate provosts, university presidents and other arts…
Kimberly James, Timothy Jones, Phillip Zawarus, Sean Slattery, Olga Townsend, Genevieve Tremblay, Francisco Menendez, Adam Paul (all Fine Arts), Althea Inns, Ted Weisman (OIT), and Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) contributed to a national online conversation about Envisioning a Post-pandemic Future for Arts and Media Higher Education…
Stefani Relles (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) and Charles Burmeister (Film) are involved in a documentary film project, "Mattering in the Margins: Skateboarders’ Stories of Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities." The project will involve producing a documentary using cinematic methods that were developed at UNLV with funding…
Kimberly James, Timothy Jones (both Music), Louis McDonald (Art History), Olga Townsend (BFA student), Francisco Menendez (Film), Adam Paul (Theatre), Joshua Vermillion (Architecture), Phil Zawarus (Landscape Architecture), Sean Slattery, Michael Fong (both Art), Gil Kaupp (Music Technology), Julian Kilker (Journalism & Media Studies), and…
Francisco Menendez (Film) recently won the CILECT Teaching Award for 2020. The inauguration will be held online at the organization's general assembly Nov. 13.
The non-profit association known as the Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision (CILECT) was formed at Cannes in May 1955, with the participation of…