Cinema and Digital Media

The College of Letters and Science Marketing and Communications office is seeking multiple interns for a creative project. Together, this team of students will help produce a series of videos that highlight the academic and career opportunities that await the Letters and Science graduate. Skills sought include on-camera interviewing, creative writing, social media writing, video editing and video post-production. These are unpaid internships. Interested students should contact Ed Kiggins (epkiggins@ucdavis.edu). Please include writing and/or video examples in your note.

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Cinema and Digital Media combines the study of audio-visual and digital media, theories about such media, and relevant modes of artistic practice and production.

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Three recent Department of Cinema and Digital Media majors from the class of 2025 have launched their own videography and video production company and have hit the ground running. David Kouyoumdjian, Jihae Dong, and Ziyun Zhang formed 175 Productions LLC (AKA. 175 Productions) in March 2025 and have already built up an impressive list of clients.

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The West coast premiere of Professor Julie Wyman’s documentary The Tallest Dwarf will be part of the San Francisco International Film Festival with screenings on April 26 and 27.

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For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional obligation and a rite of passage. For Professor Fiamma Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, the protagonist of Borges’ El Etnógrafo (1969), this rite of passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of visual art.

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Filmmakers and professors Glenda Drew (of Design) and Jesse Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American Country Music titled Open Country.

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