Recent Events – UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR)

Event: HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY (2023) with Leslie Tai

Still from How To Have An American Baby (Tai, 2024)

Public Screening and Discussion, Monday, February 10, 7:00 PM Communications 150 (Theater C) CDAR is pleased to co-sponsor this Visiting Artist’s Series screening of the feature-length creative documentary exploring Chinese birth tourism in Southern California. How to Have an American Baby is “a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who…Continue Reading Event: HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY (2023) with Leslie Tai

Event: A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE (2017) with Mary Jirmanus Saba

Public Screening and Discussion, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 PM Communications 150 (Theater C) In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of…Continue Reading Event: A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE (2017) with Mary Jirmanus Saba

Event: RICHLAND with Irene Lusztig

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Screening at 6:30 PM UCSC Communications 150 (Theater C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2023 / 93 minutes Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear…Continue Reading Event: RICHLAND with Irene Lusztig

Event: Sansón and Me – Screening and Workshop with Rodrigo Reyes

Image of a child from the film Sansón and Me (2022)

Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:30 PM, UCSC Communications 150 (Theater C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2022 / 83 minutes During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant sentenced to life in…Continue Reading Event: Sansón and Me – Screening and Workshop with Rodrigo Reyes

NORTH BY CURRENT with Angelo Madsen Minax

looking up from behind a car seeing a man holding the hand of his kid walking to their car

Tuesday November 15, 2022, 7:30 PM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC [captioned accessible screening] *** VENUE CHANGE: SCREENING WILL BE HELD OFF-CAMPUS AT INDEXICAL*** Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 After the inconclusive death of his young niece, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown, preparing…Continue Reading NORTH BY CURRENT with Angelo Madsen Minax

THE INHERITANCE: screening and workshop with Ephraim Asili

Tuesday January 31, 2023, 7:00 PM, UCSC Communications 150 (Studio C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2020 / 100 minutes After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work…Continue Reading THE INHERITANCE: screening and workshop with Ephraim Asili

THE TUBA THIEVES screening and workshop with Alison O’Daniel

Monday April 17, 2023, 7:30 PM, UCSC Communications 150 (Studio C) [OPEN TO THE UCSC COMMUNITY] USA / 2023 / 91 minutes open captions From 2011 to 2013, a string of puzzling burglaries took place in Southern California: tubas went missing from a dozen high schools. Alison O’Daniel’s genre-defying debut was sparked by these events….Continue Reading THE TUBA THIEVES screening and workshop with Alison O’Daniel