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Streaming giant Netflix recently announced a proposed expansion in the City of Albuquerque – opening up countless possibilities for UNM Film and Digital Arts students to get hands-on experience. The investment will generate approximately 1,000...

It may come as a surprise to many people that New Mexico has been a film capital for over a century, even before it became a state. In 1898, inventor and early motion pioneer Thomas Edison arrived in Albuquerque to capture on 50 seconds of film a group...

Showdown in Lobo Village, an original comedy created by the UNM Sitcom Boot Camp Class, will be presented for one night only Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance in the Carlisle Gym on the Central Campus. Admission is free...

New Mexico has a long, distinguished history in the film industry. Tom Mix made silent movies here in the early 1900s and award-winning favorites such as Easy Rider (1969) and No Country for Old Men (2007) were filmed here. Netflix and NBC Universal are...

Penguins at the Albuquerque’s BioPark were just chilling – literally – one recent morning soon after the new exhibit opened, snacking on fish, and hopping off a rocky promontory to take a dip in the water that fills their glass enclosure. Soon the space...

Recent graduates Alex Booher and Alexandra Valdez came from different academic areas to the Film & Digital Arts department at The University of New Mexico, but both ended up in internships with Sandia National Laboratories where their skills in game...

Faith Perez thought an Art History class she was required to take would never really be useful for what she wanted to do. That is until she was presented with an unexpected opportunity. And ended up directly using knowledge she’d learned at UNM. Perez,...