University Film and Video Association
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The University Film and Video Association is an organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. Although it is based in the U.S., it has members throughout the world.

Its stated description is:
The UFVA is an international organization where media production and writing meets the history, theory and criticism of the media. The UFVA members are image-makers and artists, teachers and students, archivists and distributors, college departments, libraries, and manufacturers. Your membership to the UFVA will provide you opportunities to meet and share ideas with colleagues, receive evaluation of creative work, and monitor the developments in film/video technology, education, scholarship and artistic pursuits.

UFVA holds an annual conference and publishes the Journal of Film and Video
Journal of Film and Video
The Journal of Film and Video is the official academic journal of the University Film and Video Association. It features articles on film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics. The journal is published by the University of Illinois Press and the current editor is Stephen...

, a periodical featuring articles on film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics. UFVA also administers the American Documentary Showcase.

Along with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is an organization of professors and scholars. Its home office is at the University of Oklahoma, but it has members throughout the world....

, it is one of the principal U.S. academic organizations for studying media.

History

UFVA was founded in 1947 as the University Film Producers Association. Its name was changed to the University Film Association and later the University FIlm and Video Association.

Conference

The annual UFVA Conference is held each summer. Attendees screen films, present papers and panels, mount new media exhibits, and stage readings of un-produced screenplays.

Recent Conference Sites

2010 Champlain College

2009 University of New Orleans

2008 Colorado College

2007 University of North Texas

2006 Chapman University

2005 Columbia College of Chicago

2004 University of Toledo

2003 University of South Carolina

2002 Ithaca College

2001 Kodak Headquarters

2000 Colorado College

1999 Emerson College

1998 North Carolina School of the Arts

1997 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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