Robert Flaherty
The University’s first major co-production, A Boatload of Wild Irishmen, is voyaging abroad, touring Canada from this Friday.
Boatload goes abroad
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University of Lincoln to host film archive
From Dean of the MHT Faculty, David Sleight:
“The Executive Board of the university yesterday gave approval for the Media Archive for Central England to relocate to the University campus from July 2011.
LSM student promotes his novel online
Ben Atkinson
LSM Media Production student Ben Atkinson writes:
For the past year I have been promoting the novel Walking on Cinders online by harnessing the power of new social media such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc. I have however, been writing the novel since 2008 and have been working with a professional editor and publicist in the past year.
New Demo planned in Lincoln – Update
Latest from Lincoln Students’ Union (Dan Derricot):
“You may be aware that local MP Karl McCartney has pulled out of his constituency advice surgery tomorrow at the last minute, in an attempt to avoid his constituents expressing their concern at his support for tripling tuition fees, slashing public funding and abolishing Education Maintenance Allowance.
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News for regional film makers
Marcella Forster
Following the demise of the UK Film Council, Marcella Forster writes:
You’ve probably heard that the UK Film Council is being replaced by something called Creative England. It looks like EM Media will be absorbed into one of the three new regions – will we be central or north, though?
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Lincoln students and staff protest
Yesterday hundreds of University of Lincoln students and staff protested in the city against proposed increases in tuition fees.
BBC Lincolnshire story and slide show
What do you think about the issue? Comments please!
Student Media Society Launch
A new Student Media Society has been voted in by the SU and will launch on 24 Nov at 8pm at the Tower Bar.
All students, staff and graduates are very warmly invited to attend by the Committee members: Meghan Fowles, Ollie Cook, Denise Barry and Calum Barre.
The main aims of the society are to provide a forum for events, trips, networking, guest speakers, collaborative projects and so on …
Matthew’s film in Salford Film Festival
My name is Matthew Volp, a 1st year doing Media Production. I wanted to let you know that my film, “A Mind At Peace”, that I directed in my final year at college, has been selected for the Underexposed section of the Salford Film Festival on Wedneesday 17th November. It was also shown at the launch of the festival on Wednesday 10th.
Latest news from Sarah Barrow: We just heard that it WON the award for best film in that section. Many congratulations Matthew. [21 November]
LSM student work in KISS100 / UL promo
From Chris Hainstock:
One of our students – John Stacey (Audio Production level 2) was involved in these KISS100 FM/University of Lincoln films (scroll down a little – there are three thumbnail images – click to view.)
Audio versions of these have been played many times on Kiss100 Radio and these are on their website along with a competition.
Update: June 2011
In November we held our first ever AlumniFest on campus. Thanks to all who came along to ‘Meet the Graduates’.
Graduates answered questions from students and staff before chatting one-to-one. The event confirmed our conviction that graduate experience should be a vital input into our teaching and learning.
As an LSM graduate, your experiences, opinions and advice are of great value to us in our mission to keep abreast of media industry trends. So please do get in touch!
There’s a new way to find alumni stories, using the GALLERY link at the top of the page. Just click on a photo to read the graduate’s story. Here’s a preview:
 Alex Holland |
 Andrew Sanders |
 Ash Knight |