One Water Workshop Screening

Friday, September 24 at 6:30 PM at the Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33129

RSVP: Michelle at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 954-558-9664

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One Water Awards

  • Winner of Best Cinematography Award and Winner Honorable Mention, Documentary Feature
    Fargo Film Festival
    Fargo, ND, March 2009
  • Short listed for Awards Jury at 7th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
    7th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
    Nevada City, CA, Jan. 10, 2009
  • Honorable Mention Inspirational Excellence Award, Documentary Competition, at Bayou City
    Inspiration Film Festival
    Houston, Texas, 2008
  • Winner, Best Documentary at Foyle Film Festival, 2008
    The Northern Ireland International Film Festival
  • Winner, Best Film on Sustainable Development at Cinemambiente 2008
    Turin, Italy
  • Winner, AMAP Prize
    Ecovision, 2007
  • Official Program Selection
    4th World Water Forum, 2006
  • Winner of Documentary Award of Excellence and Best of Competition in Technical Merit
    Broadcast Education Association, Festival of Media Arts, 2004

Student Awards

  • ONA Online Video Journalism, Student Category
    Knight Center for International Media - "My Story, My Goal"
  • SSND Foundation Scholarship, 2009
    Brian Schlansky, Recipient

  • $10,000 Travel Grant from the Pulitzer Center
    Paul Franz, Recipient
  • Rich Beckman discusses world cities project

  • Joseph B. Treaster discusses 1h2o.org

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Dia Kontaxis to serve as Editor of One City

School of Communication associate professor and the director of the Motion Picture Program Konstantia "Dia" Kontaxis will serve as editor for One City, the short film currently in production at the Knight Center for International Media. The film explores imminent threats, such as pollution, overpopulation, and encroaching globalization, to contemporary cities around the world. Filming has been competed in Sao Paolo and Mumbai. Other locations include Miami, Florida, Masdar City in the in the United Arab Emirates and Petra, Jordan.

Dia is a filmmaker and media artist who has created films about artists including Carmen Herrera, Anna Valentina Murch and Jose Bedia, among others. Her works have been screened at festivals, museums and galleries around the world including Rome, Venice at the Art Biennale, New York at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in Montreal at Art Fifa.



Knight Center’s Sanjeev Chatterjee Opens Inaugural TEDxMIA Event

The audience of about a 100 people sat in the dimly lit room and leaned in their seats, attentively listening as Sanjeev Chatterjee stood in the spotlight and told a story from his childhood that was animated in the slideshow behind him. It was a...



UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon features Knight Center MDG project at G20 Summit in Korea

The University of Miami’s Knight Center Millennium Development Goal’s Project, “My Story, My Goal” was featured at the G20 Summit in Korea on November 11.




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