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A film written, directed and produced by a UA alumnus and filmmaker was announced as Best Arizona Feature at the 2015 Phoenix International Film Festival on Sunday.
“It’s about a filmmaker trying to break into the filmmaking business by making a documentary about classic volkswagens, when life happens,” said Darious Britt , producer, writer and director of “Unsound.” “Essentially, his mom suffers another
psychotic episode, so he’s got to resort to extreme measures to get her to health.” Britt said he began writing “Unsound” before he graduated from the UA School of Theatre, Film and Television in 2012 . He said the film is about 93 minutes long
and was inspired by true events. “A month after I graduated from the UA, I started shooting it,” Britt said. “Over the course of the next year, I was still shooting it. It took a yearand-[a]-half to write it, a year to shoot it and I was editing it for about six
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months.” Britt said this character drama and feature film was made entirely by UA alumni, with whom he built strong relationships while he was attending the UA. “The school facilitated
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Women honored for their research BY TERRIE BRIANNA The Daily Wildcat
minor will be available for the 2015 fall semester. The new minor will target students from a wide variety of disciplines to expand knowledge on what East Asian studies professor Jiang Wu describes Buddhism as — not just a religion
Several panelists will discuss the hardships of being women in anthropology, their research and experiences in the field, as well as balancing family and work, today in the UA Main Library at 6 p.m. Among the panelists is Mary Voyatzis, a UA professor with a focus in archeology, whose research focuses on Ancient Greek classics. “When I first started at [the University of Pennsylvania], it was a college for women,” Voyatzis said, “so it was something kind of new. … So, if I would have wanted to go to any of these places to study archeology, I couldn’t have.” Voyatzis described the difficulty of being a mother and archeologist. “It’s not always been easy,” she said. “… Going out into the field with your children is very difficult … especially when they were little. … That can be a strain on a family.” Jennifer Roth-Gordon, a linguistics and cultural anthropology professor, has been studying the use of language amongst the lowerand upper-class in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gordon is working on a book project about “how people use language to interpret social and racial messages about others, and how this then contributes to a larger social and … racial hierarchy.” Gordon also emphasized that her interest for anthropology stems from
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THIS FALL, the UA will start a Buddhism studies minor. The minor will allow students to gain better insight into other cultures and lifestyles from around the world.
Starting in the 2015 fall semester, the UA will be offering a Buddhism studies minor BY LAUREN RENTERIA The Daily Wildcat
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This fall, the UA Department of East Asian Studies will introduce its new Buddhist studies minor . Buddhism, one of the most ancient religions, continues to thrive across the globe.
With more than 350 million adherents , Buddhism makes up approximately 6 percent of the world’s population, making it the world’s fourth largest religion. Hoping to further educate Arizona students in the diverse and colorful cultures around the globe, the new Buddhist studies
Program helps at-risk LGBTQ adults BY LAUREN RENTERIA The Daily Wildcat
The UA’s new ANCHOR Project conducted its first workshop this month to help at-risk LGBTQ adults in Tucson. Last March, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women partnered with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to create the new Accessible
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Network for Coordinated Housing, Opportunities and Resilience Project. The ANCHOR Project is contracted to operate for the following three years with funding from a $400,000 grant by SAMHSA. The ANCHOR Project is dedicated to provide aid to at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning and straight ally young adults ages 18-26. While this program has long been
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under construction, it finally began with its first workshop earlier this month. “When you look at any marginalized group, a group that has been disempowered and oppressed, they have limited access to resources and support,” said Ian Ellasante, director of the ANCHOR Project. “When we look at the statistics of young adults on the streets and homeless, we find that 20-40 percent identify as
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LGBTQ individuals. Through the ANCHOR Project, that’s a problem we want to fix.” The UA community-based program covers Tucson as a whole. While this program stems from the UA, the ANCHOR Project coordinates with both CODAC Behavioral Health Services and the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. All working toward a
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common goal, the solidarity between the organizations provides a broad point of view, Ellasante said. Though the program is still in its infancy, the ANCHOR Project has a goal to work alongside 180 atrisk LGBTQ and straight ally individuals to help them become self-sufficient. While in the ANCHOR Project, participants are able to gain assistance in housing,
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