About Me

Bruce is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Digital Filmmaking Program and an Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking at the University of Central Arkansas. He has taught a wide range of course including Introduction to Film, Script Analysis, Screenwriting, Cinema History, Digital Film I, Digital Film II, Digital Film III, Topics in Digital Filmmaking, and Seminar in Mass Communication at the undergraduate level and Directing the Motion Picture, Screenwriting, Writing and the Short Film, History of American Cinema, History of International Cinema, Film Theory, and Cognitive Film Theory at the graduate level. He helped start both the undergraduate and graduate Digital Filmmaking programs. He has taught at UCA since 2002.

Bruce is a filmmaker whose films have played in festivals across the country as well as in England. Bruce is also a photographer and visual artist.

Education

PhD., Film Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence (1998)
M.A., Film Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence (1995)
B.A., Communication, The American University (1993)
B.A., Literature, The American University (1993)

Films

Sidearoadia, 15-minute short film, Writer/Director/Producer, 2013

Festival Screenings
Crystal Bridges Short Film Festival, Bentonville, AR, August 2014
Little Rock Film Festival. Little Rock, AR, May 2014
Black Hills Film Festival. Hill City, SD, May 2014
Capital City Film Festival. Lansing, MI, April 2014
Bare Bones Film Festival. Muskogee, OK, April 2014

Awards
Nominee, Best Short Film, Black Hills Film Festival, April 2014

Screenings
University Film and Video Association Conference. Bozeman, MT, August 2014

Europa, 15-minute short film, Stereo3D, Director/Producer, 2012

Festival Screenings
Gen Con Film Festival. Indianapolis, IN, August 2014
Intendence Film Festival. Denver, CO, July 2014
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA, June 2014
Hyart Film Festival. Lovell, WY, June 2014
Snake Alley Film Festival. Burlington, IA, June 2014
London International Science Fiction Film Festival. London, England, May 2014
Glen Rose Neo-Relix Film Festival. Glen Rose, TX, March 2014
Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. Miami, FL, January 2014
Bare Bones Film Festival. Muskogee, OK, April 2013
Crossroads Film Festival. Jackson, MS, April 2013
Boston Science Fiction Festival. Boston, MA, February 2013

Awards
Opening Night Film, Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. Miami, FL. January, 2014
Finalist, Best Science Fiction Film, Bare Bones Film Festival. Muskogee, OK, April 2013
Honorable Mention, Boston Science Fiction Film Festival. Boston, MA, February 2013

Screenings
University Film and Video Association Conference. Chicago, IL August 2012
Little Rock Fiction Festival. Little Rock, AR, June 2012

Going to Hell, 15 minute short film, Writer/Director/Producer, 2011

Juried Screenings
Hot Springs Horror Festival. Hot Springs, AR, September 2013
Little Rock Horror Picture Show. Little Rock, AR, February 2012
Wanderings Film Festival. Huntsville, AL, November 2011
Offshoot Film Festival. Fayetteville, AR, October 2011
Sacramento Horror Film Festival. Sacramento, CA, October 2011
Atlanta Horror Film Festival. Atlanta, GA, September 2011
Pittsburgh Horror Film Festival. Pittsburgh, PA, June 2011
Little Rock Film Festival. Little Rock, AR, May 2011

Screenings
University Film and Video Association Conference. Chicago, IL August 2012
Faculty Showcase, University of Central Arkansas. Conway, AR, September 2011

Surfacing, 30 minute short film, Writer/Director/Producer, 2009

Juried Screenings
Offshoot Film Festival. Fayetteville, AR, October 2010
Little Rock Film Festival. Little Rock, AR, May 2009

Invited Screenings
Reel Women Film Festival. Little Rock, AR, March 2012

Publications

“Maya Deren and the Birth of the New American Cinema.” Experimental Film: Missing Frames. Ed. Benjamin Meade. 2010.

“Understanding Character Motivation: A Process Oriented Approach to Realism.” Emotion-Empathie-Figur: Spielformen der Filmwahrnehmung. Ed. Thomas Schick and Tobias Ebbrecht. Berlin: Vistas Verlag GmbH, 2008.

“Understanding Character Motivation: A Process Oriented Approach to Realism.” Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images. Ed. Joseph Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, Forthcoming (January 2008).

“Report on the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2006 Conference” CILECT News. Winter 2006.

“An Attentional Model of Film Viewing.” Journal of Moving Image Studies.  Vol. 2 (2003/2004). www.avila.edu/departments/journal/fall03/toc.html

Paper and Panel Presentations

“Stereoscopic Filmmaking in University Programs.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Bozeman, MT. August, 2014.

Meador, W.S., Hutchinson, B., Churchill, C. “Europa Shot 67.” Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. Anaheim, CA. 24 July 2013. Dailies Program.

"Strategic Planning Implementation for Film/Video Production Programs: The Most Important Step."  University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.  August 2012.

“Stylistic and Aesthetic Considerations for Stereoscopic Filmmaking.”  University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA.  August 2011.

“Unbelievable Actions: Dealing with Unexpected Character Actions in the Classical Hollywood Cinema.” Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. June, 2009.

“Four Act Structure: Exceptions That Prove the Rule.” University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Denton, TX. August 2007.

“The Filmmaking MFA in the Creative Economy” panel presentation at the University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Orange, CA, August, 2006.

“Scene Structure in the Hollywood Arch Plot” paper presented at the University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Orange, CA, August, 2006.

“Understanding Character Motivation: A Process Oriented Approach to Realism” paper presented at “Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images” the 5th International Conference of the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference, Berlin, Germany, July, 2006.

“Mr. Maslow, Meet Anderson: Understanding Character Goals in the Hollywood Film” paper presented at the University Film and Video Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2005.

Organizations

Member, University Film and Video Association (UFVA)
Fellow, Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image