WELCOME TO UFVA 2018!

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WELCOME TO UFVA 2018!

Greetings, attendees of the 2018 University Film & Video Association conference!

As this year's Conference Host and the current UFVA President, Amy Lanasa and I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you as you arrive in Las Cruces.

We are thrilled to be at New Mexico State University for our 72nd annual conference, July 23rd through July 26th. Since 1947, the University Film & Video Association has been dedicated to advancing the study and teaching of the cinematic arts.

This year, we continue that long and proud tradition at NMSU, where we gather to highlight and foster the dynamic culture UFVA has across many areas of professional achievement, including innovative filmmaking, scholarship, scriptwriting, new media, and, of course, pedagogy. We will present our projects and research; engage with emerging trends; and make new connections while we renew old friendships.

We are especially proud of the conference theme for UFVA 2018, "Stories Without Borders," which is part of our organization's continuing attempt to champion inclusive, diverse, and innovative expression in media.

Conference-themed projects and panels will be featured throughout the next four days, d we

particularly encourage you to attend the plenary session, "Stories Without Borders," on Monday, July 23rd at 8:30 am. It will be a wide-ranging and dynamic keynote conversation with writer/

producer ?lvaro Rodr?guez, writer/director Lena Khan, and t e t

er Brian Espino a.

An exciting four days awaits you! Thank you for being a part of UFVA's vibrant community of artists, writers, researchers, teachers, and scholars, and please free free to reach out to us during the conference if we can be of any assistance.

Best wishes to all,

Amy Lanasa

UFVA 2018 Conference Host

Heather Addison

UFVA President (2016-2018)

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The 2018 UFVA Conference

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION

with

Alvaro Rodriguez

Writer/producer, Machete and Seis Manos

Lena Khan

Writer/Director, The Tiger Hunter

Brian Espinosa

CEO, Optimism Entertainment Moderator

Ilana Lapid, MFA

Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University

Monday, July 23 8:30 AM, Auditorium Room 247 Corbett Center Student Union New Mexico State University

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?LVARO RODR?GUEZ

Born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border, ?lvaro Rodr?guez spent years as a journalist and some time in academics while pursuing a creative career. Rodr?guez wrote and performed music for Robert Rodriguez's breakthrough film EL MARIACHI and began writing screenplays including the features SHORTS and MACHETE. His borderset short fiction has appeared in print and online journals and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Additionally, he has served as a frequent panelist, moderator and judge at writing workshops and conferences in Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Seattle.

Rodr?guez is executive producer/co-creator of SEIS MANOS, a Netflix original adult-animated series, currently in development with Powerhouse Animation and Viz Media for release in 2019. A coming-of-age feature set in 1950s Italy, YOU, MINE, is in development with OH!Pen Productions for a 2019 start date. His latest feature as writer and co-producer, LAST RAMPAGE, starring Robert Patrick and Heather Graham, was released domestically by Epic Pictures and premiered internationally at the Sitges Film Festival in October 2017.

LENA KHAN

Lena is a Canadian American writer and director. Her first feature film, THE TIGER HUNTER, released in over 60 cities nationwide this past fall and garnered effusively positive reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and more.

With a background from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and experience at noted production companies such as Participant Media, Lena spent years directing short films, commercials and music videos before embarking on her first film. Lena and her work have been profiled in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, USA Today and The New York Times. She was recently listed as one of the 25 Screenwriters to watch in MovieMaker magazine.

In the last year, Lena has sold a television

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