As part of Coming Out month, the Gender and Sexuality Center chose to screen the film “The Way He Looks” last Monday night. Coming Out month is a celebration that the center puts together every year, in order to show every member of the URI community that they are welcome. After brainstorming multiple options for…
Photo courtesy of IMDb. Spike Lee’s latest film to grace the big screen, “BlacKkKlansman” received controversial critique from fellow Director Boots Riley. The film showcases a side of racial politics that is relevant in modern day. The film, based on a true story and set in the 1970s, follows Ron Stallworth, a new cop and…
After finishing up my first year at the University of Rhode Island as a film major, I was eager to spend the summer gaining experience that would further my future career. I took advantage of the opportunities I received both in my hometown of Billerica, Massachusetts and in Rhode Island. I reached out to my…
On Aug. 12, 2018, University of Rhode Island sophomore Alyssa Botelho received the Brownell Scholarship at the Rhode Island International Film Festival for her achievements in film. Adam Roth, associate dean of the Harrington School of Communication and Media, urged Botelho to apply for the scholarship. Roth believed she had a very good chance at…
Assistant director for Audiovisual Production, Timothy Tierney, is set to retire on April 7 after 41 years of working for the University of Rhode Island. Tierney began his long career at URI when he was a student here in the early 70s. He was a student worker in the then Audio Visual center where he…
The Norman M. Fain Hillel Center held an Israeli Movie Night with a showing of “Beneath The Helmet†last Monday, Nov. 23. “Beneath The Helmet†is a documentary that tells a coming-of-age story focused on the lives of five Israeli high school graduates who are taken into the military to protect their country. As an…
The Providence Latin American Film Festival, one of the largest film festivals in New England, Â spiced up the city this past weekend. Panel discussions, workshops and exhibitions were held along with music that took place between the screenings of their chosen films. The event lasted four days and screenings were held at URI Feinstein Providence…
A new professor at the University of Rhode Island is uniting his real world experience working with popular TV shows with classroom learning. Justin Wyatt, an assistant professor of the Harrington School, began his first semester of teaching at URI this fall. After previously teaching media arts at the University of Arizona, Wyatt decided to…