Ron Douglas

Education and Training

University at Buffalo MFA Media Study Student Fall, 2007-Present

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Film Studies and Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002

A.A.S., High Tech Communications, Community College of Beaver County, Monaca, PA, 1994

Proyecto Lingüistico Quetzalteco de Español (Intensive Spanish language immersion program), Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 2004

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Advanced Video Production, Non-Linear Editing, DVD Authoring, and Lighting for Film and Video, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003-2006.

Published Articles

“Youth activists Working in Chiapas.” The New People, May 2002.

Fellowships/Grants:

2009/2010 College Fellowship
2008/2009 College Fellowship
2009 Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier

Conferences:

World on Your Plate Conference 2009.

Target Your Teaching Fall Conference for Teaching Assistants University at Buffalo, August 18-20.

World on Your Plate Conference Daemen College, October 10, 2008.

Intermedia Work:

Double Your Money: or How to Make it in Tough Economic Times Buffalo Infringement Festival July 09

Demiurge Media study student show spring 09

All You have to do is Start Site Specific Performance/Video UB Gender Matters Symposium Fall 08

Get Out! Site Specific Video/Performance Work Center for the Arts Liveness! Show Spring 08

Videos:

Why do you Like Bette Davis Fall 09

We Need Food Not Bombs:

Screenings:

Free Speech TV 09 Season

Sqeaky wheel March 27, 2009

Urban Renewal Film Festival

World on Your Plate Conference Fall 2009

World on Your Plate Conference Daemen College Fall 2008

Buffalo Unitarian Universalist Church Alternative Thanksgiving 2008

Meditation on a Meditation

Media Study Movement Documentation Show Spring 08

Pittsburgh Film Kitchen Featured Artist, Vagaband, Spoon Guy, and Libera Animus Defunctorum. February, 2007

A Brush With Gum Disease, Finalist Pittsburgh Film Kitchen Coffee Film Festival, April 2006

Smoothie Operator, Finalist Pittsburgh Film Kitchen Appliance Film Festival, May 2004

Teaching Experience:

University at Buffalo

Instructor: Basic Video

Fall 2008, Spring 09

University at Buffalo

Instructor: Immigration and Film Summer, Fall, 09

Work Experience

UB Anderson Gallery Gallery Attendant: June-August, 2008.

Key Video Freelance Videographer: May, 2008.

Surgery Productions: Surgery Saved My Life. Production Assistant: June, 2007.

Advanced Visuals: Boating Upon the Three Rivers. Camera Operator and Production Assistant: June-August, 2006.

Paulished Films: Freelance Videographer.

Peter Wolff Productions: Freelance Videographer.

M&N productions: The Good Fight. Grip. August 2003.

PCTV (Pittsburgh Community Television) Producer and Volunteer:

Rustbelt Television, 2005-2007. Producer: Editor, camera, writer, and studio operations.

Empty V, 2001-2003, Co-Producer: Editor, camera, and writer.