Tom Brislin

SMART (Student Media Art) Exchange Program – “Where Are We Now?”

This is an update on the exchange program, which started in 2006 and occurs biannually, every October (Hawaii) and June (Shanghai, China) under the auspices of the Hawaii International Film Festival (“HIFF”), the Shanghai International Film Festival (“SIFF”), Shanghai University and UHM. For each film festival, student films are selected from each school and the filmmakers are invited as official delegates to the film festival. Along with film festival participation, these students participate in a filmmaker’s workshop and produce film collaborations, (Sino-US student film collaborations,) during a three-week period.

UH-Shanghai SMART (Student Media Art) Exchange: Films and Filmmakers

Tom Brislin is professor and chairman of the Academy for Creative Media, the University of Hawai‘i’s film school. The founding chair of the School of Communications, enjoining the Journalism and Communications Departments with two B.A. programs, an M.A. program and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, his teaching and research interests include media ethics; global cinema, international and intercultural mass communication; and popular culture. Before joining UH, Brislin had a 12-year stint at The Honolulu Advertiser as city editor, assistant news editor and education reporter/editor.