Virtual Big Muddy Film Festival 2021 will include smartphone entries
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by Pete Rosenbery
CARBONDALE, Ill. – In preparing for its 43rd edition in March, the venerable Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will provide a few new twists.
One of the nation’s oldest film festivals affiliated with a university and widely known for strong documentaries that highlight social issues, the virtual event will include a category for films shot with smartphones.
The 2021 festival, March 17-31, will also feature competitive films in four other categories: animation, experimental and narrative, along with virtual juror presentations. This year’s festival will feature 82 selections from 228 submissions, including three feature narratives making their U.S. premieres.
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Lisa Buchanan, associate professor of education, co-authored an article in the journal Action in Teacher Education titled, “Discourses of Immigration and the Mediating Influence of Documentary Films.” The article is available online here.
Lisa Buchanan, associate professor of education
The article abstract reads as follows:
There is a demographic and democratic imperative for social studies teachers
to broach the issue of contemporary immigration in their classrooms. In this
study, preservice social studies teachers (PSTs) viewed three documentary
films that presented stories of immigration that run counter to the narrative
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