Alfred Hitchcock’s films and new teaching technology don’t seem to have much in common, but Richard Edwards sees a connection. As director of the UC Riverside Exploration Center for Innovative Teaching & Engagement, or XCITE, Edwards helps introduce innovative technologies and techniques in teaching and learning. As a film scholar and a curator for...
When Christophe Katrib first screened his short documentary, “This Dissonance,” in 2024 he was unsure of the reception it would receive. Two years later, the five-and-half-minute film has been screened at film festivals around the country and world and won numerous accolades. Yet its continued success is bittersweet for Katrib, an assistant...
The Smartphone Film Festival is UC Riverside’s annual commemoration of the art of cinema focusing on the fact that anyone can make movies–even on their smartphones. The February event was the festival’s 12th year running, and had its highest number of submissions yet: 18 films, all made by UCR students using phones and no camera equipment, all...
