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Beverly Seckinger

Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television

 

Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory – GIDP

Marshall Bldg, Room 229
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M.F.A. in Radio-Television-Film (Temple University,1991), M.A. in Anthropology (University of Arizona, 1987), B.A. in English and French (University of Wyoming, 1981, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

Beverly Seckinger is Professor in the School of Theatre, Film & Television and former Interim Director (2008-2010) and Associate Director (2004-2008) of the School of Media Arts.  She serves on the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Practice graduate program, is a founding member of the UA Institute for LGBT Studies, and since 1993 has directed the annual Lesbian Looks Film Series.

Her film Hippie Family Values, a feature-length documentary about three generations at a back-to-the-land community in rural New Mexico, won the Grand Festival Award for Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival, the Outstanding Project Award for 2019 from the Communal Studies Association, and the Outstanding Documentary Award from the University Film & Video Association. The film continues to screen in community and campus venues across the country, and is distributed to educational institutions by New Day Films.

Seckinger’s previous films have been screened on PBS, at international festivals in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America, and non-theatrically throughout the U.S.  Her 2004 diary/documentary Laramie Inside Out, about the aftermath of Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder in her hometown community, had its U.S. broadcast premiere on PBS in June 2007, and is distributed by New Day Films, Filmoption/Canada, and American Public Television. It has been screened at dozens of universities, conferences and community events across the country, and purchased for the permanent collections of over 400 colleges and universities.

In 2014, Seckinger launched an interdisciplinary initiative to establish a Center for Documentary at the University of Arizona, and directs the DocScapes screening and workshop series, a collaborative project with the Hanson FilmTV Institute.  In 2017 she created DocVisions, a community outreach program that teaches basic documentary skills to UA students from diverse majors, who in turn mentor refugee and immigrant teens in media production.  She also teaches the course Advancing Human Rights through Documentary Media for the UA's online graduate program in Human Rights Practice, which recently launched a new Graduate Certificate in Human Rights and Documenatary Media.  (See Feb 2021 profile in Filmmaker Magazine.)  

Since 2004 Seckinger has been a member-owner of New Day Films, the leading filmmaker-owned distribution company for social issue documentaries, and has served on the Steering Committee as head of the Web Operations team (2014-16) and Head of Promotions (2010-12). She is also a longtime member and former officer and board member of the University Film & Video Association. She spent four years in Morocco, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer English teacher (1981-83), and then as a literacy researcher (1985-86), and served as a USAID-Women in Development consultant in Tunisia (1993, 1994). 

 

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New voices and new visions from a world, interrupted. The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and TFTV present a devised work written in collaboration with Theatre Studies students from The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television. In From the Fishbowl, visual theatre creator Wolfe Bowart directs a cast of performers who glide magically and seamlessly between stage and screens.

Join members of the creative team for a premiere screening and artist talkback about creating new theatre in a socially distanced world on April 1, 2021 at 6pm.

FROM THE FISHBOWL will be streaming online April 1 - 18, 2021 through The Scoundrel & Scamp. Tickets are $11 per device and can be purchased here: am.ticketmaster.com/arizonaarts/fromthefishbowl.
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New voices and new visions from a world, interrupted. The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and TFTV present a devised work written in collaboration with Theatre Studies students from The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television. In From the Fishbowl, visual theatre creator Wolfe Bowart directs a cast of performers who glide magically and seamlessly between stage and screens.

Join members of the creative team for a premiere screening and artist talkback about creating new theatre in a socially distanced world on April 1, 2021 at 6pm. 

FROM THE FISHBOWL will be streaming online April 1 - 18, 2021 through The Scoundrel & Scamp. Tickets are $11 per device and can be purchased here: https://am.ticketmaster.com/arizonaarts/fromthefishbowl.
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TFTV student filmmaker Andy Zhao’s film "Asian and American" is featured in the annual documentary showcase What’s Up, Docs?, streaming digitally for the first time through The Loft Cinema. This year’s lineup features 15 short documentaries made by TFTV students, and focuses heavily on Tucson and some of their own personal experiences.

Zhao, a Film & Television junior, decided to focus on a topic that he has known since childhood. In his film "Asian and American", the “and” between identifiers acknowledges the cultural tightrope walked by Asian-Americans. Especially during adolescence, people of color experience a push toward Americanization that causes an obscuring of the self and disconnect from one’s heritage. Zhao explores this phenomenon in his latest documentary through profiles of three young Asian-American individuals that have experienced a similar separation from their roots. Shoon Shojima, Sandy Trieu, and Matthew Potwardowski share their stories of growing up Asian in America. The profiles include their struggles with masculinity, identity, and conformity and the ways in which they have begun to reconnect and remain in touch with their culture.

"Asian and American" is one of fifteen documentaries in What’s Up, Docs? streaming for free through The Loft Cinema at: youtu.be/1Hgm2Nu7aew

Read more at Arizona Daily Wildcat: www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2021/02/o-asian-and-american
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OPINION: Discussing cultural disconnect with student filmmaker Andy Zhao

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Asian-Americans face discrimination throughout real-life encounters and representation on media every day. “Asian and American” by University of Arizona student Andy Nguyen Zhao addresses these struggles, and is being showcased at the What's Up, Docs? film festival.

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Nice piece on Andy's excellent film, Selena Kuikahi! Check out this op-ed in today's NYT. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/anti-asian-violence.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Ho...

The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre presents FROZEN FLUID, the lauded new work by rising playwright and TFTV alum Fly Jamerson. TFTV Instructor Claire Mannle directs alum Emily Fuchs and current student Zoe Keeter alongside Em Bowen and Steve McKee. Raulie Martinez, an alum of TFTV's Design & Technical Production division, serves as video designer and associate producer.

This Antarctic gender non-conforming creation myth tells the stories of three scientists amid a melting tundra. FROZEN FLUID is a meditative exploration of gender, faith, and climate change.

Join a special online showing and artist talkback on Saturday, February 20th at 1pm or stream online February 14-27.

Tickets are $11 per device with donations encouraged: scoundrelandscamp.org/frozen-fluid
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The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre presents FROZEN FLUID, the lauded new work by rising playwright and TFTV alum Fly Jamerson. TFTV Instructor Claire Mannle directs alum Emily Fuchs and current student Zoe Keeter alongside Em Bowen and Steve McKee. Raulie Martinez, an alum of TFTVs Design & Technical Production division, serves as video designer and associate producer.

This Antarctic gender non-conforming creation myth tells the stories of three scientists amid a melting tundra. FROZEN FLUID is a meditative exploration of gender, faith, and climate change.

Join a special online showing and artist talkback on Saturday, February 20th at 1pm or stream online February 14-27.

Tickets are $11 per device with donations encouraged:  https://scoundrelandscamp.org/frozen-fluid
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Solution Number Two, one of the short documentaries currently making its premiere as part of What's Up, Docs?, recently featured in a story for UA News. The documentary by TFTV filmmakers John Taylor and Carter Hayek chronicles the university's efforts to track campus spread of coronavirus by testing wastewater from student dorms. Taylor and Hayek sat down with microbiologist Dr. Ian Pepper, Director of the University's Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center, who discussed the groundbreaking work which helped stop at least one COVID-19 outbreak during the first week of fall classes.

Solution Number Two is one of fifteen documentaries in What's Up, Docs streaming for free through The Loft Cinema from February 4-17, 2021. Stream now at: youtu.be/1Hgm2Nu7aew
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Student-Produced Documentary Chronicles UArizona Success Taming COVID-19 Through Wastewater

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"Solution Number Two," a short documentary produced by students in the School of Theatre, Film and Television, premiered last week and is available to stream through Feb. 17.

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TOMORROW: Join TFTV Director Andy Belser's 'Aging and the Arts - Posture and Balance' session!

This ‘Aging and the Arts’ series will demonstrate awareness through movement with mental and physical exercises from the Feldenkrais Method, led by Andy Belser, certified Feldenkrais instructor and director of the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts.

You can register to attend any of the sessions at the following link: arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CjuUCwpFQ0OxLVFM1nNb8A
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Winter in Tucson...

This photo was taken over the weekend by Justine Collins, Assistant to the Director here at TFTV. We are so lucky to have amazing faculty and staff who share their talents and passions with us!
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Winter in Tucson...

This photo was taken over the weekend by Justine Collins, Assistant to the Director here at TFTV. We are so lucky to have amazing faculty and staff who share their talents and passions with us!
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Hey, Justine! Great photo! Hope you are doing well!

My picture is better than that.

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