A class project produced by a group of University of Alabama telecommunication and film students has been picked to screen at the New York Television Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition. “It’s truly an honor to have a student production chosen as an official selection in this festival,” said Adam Schwartz, assistant professor of telecommunication and film. “This festival is the premiere independent television festival, giving official selections access to studio and network executives, pitch sessions, etc.” Of 48 total selections for the Independent Pilot Competition, only three were student submissions. “To see UA right up there with other totally independent ‘professional’ [...]
The funniest 30 minutes in Alabama and Auburn football coverage. The football rivalry between the University of Alabama and Auburn University culminates in the Iron Bowl each year but it is talked about all over the state year-round. A new series coming to WVUA/WUOA-TV pokes fun at all the talk. The Iron Bowl Hour is a thirty minute weekly series which will premiere on Friday, September 2nd at 6:30 p.m. It will air again each Friday night and each Saturday at 10:30 a.m. through the football season. Program hosts, Will and Reed Lochamy are the creators of “Oh Brother,” a [...]
Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival – Saturday, August 27th, 2011 – 8:45 p.m. at Alabama Power Auditorium – They talk about mutual support, self-determination, and the satisfaction of a good smack well-delivered. Best known as a 1970’s entertainment spectacle not unlike professional wrestling, roller derby has been reborn as a predominantly female amateur hobby-sport with teams in roughly 200 American cities. The participants are a new breed of surprisingly well educated, middle class professionals for whom the activity is not only an outlet for physical expression but can also be a refuge and a community. The sport personifies many of the [...]
University of Alabama Telecommunication and Film media production student Xavier Burgin, a senior from Columbus, Miss., was awarded a $5,000 scholarship as winner of the inaugural 3D Movie Award at the Campus MovieFest International Grand Finale, held June 23-26 in Hollywood, Calif. “Portrait of the Storm” provided an up-close look at the tornado that swept through Tuscaloosa on April 27 and included personal accounts from survivors as scenes of the devastation filled the screen. “I wanted to make this because this is something the media will talk about for a few months and then move on,” Burgin said. “People start [...]
