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Radio-Television-Film

Master the evolving 21st-century media landscape.

Welcome to Austin, TX—home to great film festivals, a renowned live music scene, and some of today’s hottest feature filmmakers, TV show runners, and internationally recognized media scholars. And at the heart of Austin, seeding both the high-tech industry and vibrant arts community, is The University of Texas. It’s where you can write / direct / edit / shoot / produce the next Hollywood blockbuster, original television pilot, or small indie gem; where you can gain hands-on training with the latest and greatest animation and visual effects technology; and where you can launch your creative and professional career by honing your understanding of the historical, cultural, industrial and global contexts surrounding film, television, and digital media.

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Fall 2019 End of Semester Screenings - Dec 12-15

End of Semester Screenings Fall 2019

December 12–15, 2019

11/21/19

Ya'Ke Smith Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Smith named first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Radio-Television-Film faculty member has served in interim role since August

11/21/19

What is your favorite horror film and why?

Unique perspectives on film genre

10/31/19

UT Radio-Television-Film at 2019 Austin Film Festival

RTF at Austin Film Festival 2019

October 24–31 • Austin, Texas

10/21/19

Department of Radio-Television-Film faculty members Ben Bays and Deepak Chetty worked with College of Fine Arts lecturers for the course, “Practical Special Effects.”

Digitally enhanced by physical touch

Interdisciplinary course combines practical, visual storytelling effects

9/12/19

Matthew McConaughey appointed faculty Moody College

McConaughey joins Moody College faculty

Academy Award winner began teaching at UT Austin in 2015

8/28/19

Teaching the Business of Media

5/06/19

Spring 2019 End of Semester Screenings - May 15-19

End of Semester Screenings Spring 2019

May 15-19, 2019

4/22/19

Moody College of Communication graduate John Moore has focused on border and immigration visual reporting since 2008. His recent work was named World Press Photo of the Year.

Seeing a thousand words

Q&A with Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer John Moore

4/09/19

Noël Wells to deliver Moody College keynote

Spring graduation set for Friday, May 24 at 3 p.m.

3/18/19

RTF at SXSW 2019

2/28/19

Ray Mansfield earns second-straight Oscar nomination

Producing a call to action

Alumnus Ray Mansfield earns second-straight multiple Academy Award nominations

2/21/19

2019 SCMS Conference

March 13-17 - Seattle

2/12/19

2019 SXSW Community Screening Longhonr Denius Showcase

2019 UT RTF Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase at SXSW

Sunday, Mar 10, 2019

2/12/19

Multi-spectrum vision

Q&A with Radio-Television-Film chair Noah Isenberg

2/07/19

Virtual Training Ground

Green screen reinforces hands-on learning approach for creative digital narrative techniques

1/23/19

2019 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals

RTF at Sundance and Slamdance 2019

1/22/19

Chris Berend, Great Big Story, CNN, storyteller

Accidental Global Storyteller

CNN Senior VP of Global Video Chris Berend on becoming a storytelling “Swiss Army knife”

1/11/19

Schwarzman Scholars, Radio Television Film, Farsi, Bita Ghassemi

Recent graduate awarded international fellowship

Bita Ghassemi named Schwarzman Scholar

12/12/18

Great Big Storytelling

Genesis Student Film Fellowship provides MFA student exposure to explore

11/29/18

End of Semester Screenings Fall 2018

December 12–16

11/26/18

From the Writers' Room

MFA screenwriting program develops award-winning writers, scripts

10/25/18

Run Like the Devil

Steve Mims releases film of tight U.S. Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke free on Vimeo

10/23/18

RTF at 2018 Austin Film Festival

October 24 - November 1

10/19/18

Craig Watkins - Institute for Media Innovation

Moody to open Institute for Media Innovation

RTF professor S. Craig Watkins will lead institute as founding director

9/06/18

Flow Conference 2018: Media Preservation, Precarity, and Praxis

September 27-29, 2018

9/05/18

McConaughey stars in “true RTF effort”

Scott Rice leads effort for Moody College of Communication students, recent grads to produce public awareness PSA

8/28/18

New Radio-Television-Film chair

Noah Isenberg appointed to lead Department of Radio-Television-Film, beginning January 2019

8/15/18

RTF innovates online learning

Now offering custom-designed, web-based classes

6/11/18

New opportunity for UT undergrads: RTF Minors

Beginning Fall 2018

5/16/18

Thunder Road Wins Top Prize at SXSW

Producer Zack Parker (BS '13) wins Grand Jury Award at SXSW Film Festival

4/25/18

End of Semester Screenings Spring 2018

May 9-12, 2018

4/24/18

It’s Saturday Night!

RTF and Wofford Denius UTLA Center graduate demystifies the writer’s room at SNL

4/03/18

2018 April 10 - Emergent Media Open House

Emergent and Digital Media Open House

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

3/29/18

Game Designer/Director Neill Glancy talk

2018 UT RTF Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase at SXSW

Sunday, Mar 11, 2018

2/21/18

2018 SCMS Conference

March 14-18 - Toronto

2/15/18

New Faculty Book: "Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy"

Professor Kathryn Fuller-Seeley’s new book examines the history of Jack Benny’s radio comedies. Public book talk/screening March 1st.

1/18/18

New Faculty Book: "The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom"

Professor Suzanne Scott and Dr. Melissa Click’s new co-edited collection reflects on the growing field of fan studies and its future directions

1/18/18

Siva Vaidhyanathan talk March 5 at 7 pm in BMC 2.106

Siva Vaidhyanathan talks on "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects People and Undermines Democracy"

Monday, March 5, 7 PM, BMC 2.106

1/05/18

Annual Gender and Sexuality Lecture with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden

Flames of Feminism: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden

RTF Annual Gender & Sexuality Lecture

1/02/18

National Film Registry selects collection preserved by Carolin Frick and Texas Archive of the Moving Image

National Film Registry selects films preserved by Caroline Frick

"Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection"

12/13/17

End of Semester Screenings Fall 2017

December 13–17

11/28/17

RTF at the 2017 Austin Film Festival

October 26 - November 2

10/19/17

Media Industry Conversation with Jordan Levin

October 30, 2017 at 6 p.m. CMA 2.306

10/11/17

Canine Soldiers

Professor Nancy Schiesari’s documentary screens on PBS

5/30/17

Ragamuffin

Senior John Byron Hanby creates popular music video for Silversun Pickups

5/05/17

Spring 2017 End of Semester Screenings

4/26/17

Media Industry Conversation with Owen Shiflett

Thursday, April 27

4/13/17

PhD alumna Katherine Haenschen wins ICA Best Dissertation

“Get @ The Vote: Using Facebook and Email to Increase Voter Turnout” wins Best Dissertation for the Mass Communication division of ICA

4/13/17

Latina/o Media Makers Series

Spring 2017

4/04/17

UT3D presents "Perspectives on VR & Immersive Media: A Conversation with IMAX president, Jason Brenek"

3/24/17

2017 Dallas International Film Festival

3/23/17

Screenwriters Jessica Chou & Britta Lundin

A Media Industry Conversation

3/20/17

2017 SCMS Conference

March 22-26 - Chicago

3/18/17

RTF at SXSW 2017

3/01/17

Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase at 2017 SXSW

Sunday, Mar 12, 2017

3/01/17

Business of the Bowl

NFL Content Chief Jordan Levin (BS '89) speaks to 'The Hollywood Reporter' following Super Bowl LI

2/09/17

"Mad Men" archive donated to UT Austin

Lionsgate gifts Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning series' materials to UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center

1/12/17

2017 Humanitas Prize Winners

1/06/17

TOWER Shortlisted for Oscar

Alumnae produced documentary in race for Best Documentary Feature at Academy Awards

12/21/16

RTF to build 70’ x 20’ green screen

for digital compositing and virtual sets

12/05/16

Media Industry Conversation

Director Lev L. Spiro reveals how he went from student to film and television director

11/22/16

Hamilton Book Award

Professor Charles Ramírez Berg wins 2016 grand prize for examining Golden Age of Mexican cinema

10/26/16

Deepak Chetty wins ITVFest "Best Director"

MFA graduate and lecturer wins award for 3-D film created in UT3D program

10/17/16

Get Out The Vote

Study finds Facebook more effective at GOTV efforts

10/11/16

RTF at 2016 Austin Film Festival

9/14/16

Collaborating across the Atlantic

Portuguese scholar and UT RTF student join forces on a documentary

9/14/16

Starving the Beast

Lecturer Steve Mims's documentary investigates funding trends in U.S. public universities

9/01/16

2016 Flow Conference marks 10 years of media studies conversations

September 15-17, Austin, TX

9/01/16

2016 Longhorn Script Competition Winner

6/02/16

Inspiring Others

Radio-Television-Film student provides glimpse into lives of individuals with amputations

6/01/16

2016 SCMS Conference

1/19/16

2016 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals

1/19/16

Recent Works

Matthew McConaughey Class

Directors: RTF Script-to-Screen Students

All Around

Director: T.J. Martinez (MFA '16)

Call Her Ganda

Director: PJ Raval (Associate Professor)

By the River of Babylon

Director: Don Howard (Associate Professor)

Texas Monthly features MFA student documentaries

The last segment in Texas Monthly's 4-part film series highlighting UT Radio-Television-Film graduate student documentaries features Huay-Bing Law's (Lecturer, MFA '17) short, "From Tonga", which explores how Tongan immigrants revitalized the local high school football team in Euless, Texas.

In case you missed them, read more about the previous films in the series, TJ Martinez’s "All Around," Joel Fendelman’s "Auction," and Annie Silverstein’s short, "Night at the Dance."

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Featured Programs

RTF offers Workshops & Camps

Learn more about our summer media camps and adult workshops, taught by some of the best filmmakers and faculty in Austin.

Emergent and Digital Media

Building on the foundation of the groundbreaking UT3D initiative, today's Emergent & Digital Media Program blends innovations in interactive and immersive storytelling with state-of-the-art technology.

Emergent & Digital Media

Media Industry Conversations (MIC)

Industry professionals discuss today's evolving media landscape in new speaker series.

Media Studies Colloquium

This lecture series is designed to expose students to the diversity of media studies scholarship, provide models for research presentations, and enable advanced graduate students to present work related to their dissertation projects.

Media Studies Colloquium

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