Media Studies and Anthropology promote Cinema course

   The Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) and the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPGEM), at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), promote, on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of March, at Instituto Ágora, the short course Cinema and Social Transformation: the community as the protagonist of history.
   The short-term course lasts 15 hours and can be converted into one credit for PPGAS students. It will be taught by the protagonists of the Por Telas Project. Por Telas is a non-profit social project that seeks to provide the democratization of access to audiovisual production through training workshops, in addition to access to cultural goods, all free of charge, for young people and adults from needy communities.
   For registration and additional information, access the course page on the Integrated Academic Activities Management System (Sigaa).
Programming
March 20
9h – The image as a collaborative research instrument – Prof. Daniel Meirinho (PPGEM/UFRN)
7pm – Images in Post-History: towards an aesthetic of the human – Prof. Marcos Arraes (UFTO)

March 21
2pm – Course with filmmaker André da Costa Pinto, with the collaboration of documentary filmmaker Ruan Morais de Lucena
7pm – Screening and discussion of the Por Telas Project documentaries

March 22
2pm – Course with filmmaker André da Costa Pinto, with the collaboration of documentary filmmaker Ruan Morais de Lucena
7pm – Screening and discussion of the Por Telas Project documentaries

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