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Graduate film student Tracy Jane (right) and other UCF film students prepare to leave on May 10 for Bulgaria as part of the UCF International Documentary Lab. The program sponsors 10 students to travel to Bulgaria for a month to simulate real-world experience working in unfamiliar areas on tight deadlines for their documentaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Tracy Jane<\/p>\n
A select group of UCF film students is\u00a0traveling to Bulgaria for the International Documentary Lab next month.<\/p>\n
The students will be overseas for one month, and will be paired with Bulgarian film students and given only a few weeks to produce a documentary to\u00a0be screened\u00a0before a live audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really about the collaboration with the Bulgarians and to tell stories that are uniquely Bulgarian,\u201d said Tracy Jane, a graduate film student.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jane is one of just\u00a010 students selected from the UCF film program to travel to Bulgaria. She said that it can be nerve-wracking to travel and work abroad, but she is excited by this opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo much of art and life and school is an act of faith, and you get that faith in yourself when you do things, big and small. And this is a pretty big thing,\u201d Jane said.<\/p>\n
The cohort of film students will be leaving for Bulgaria on May 10. Philip Peters, professor of film, has been organizing the UCF International Documentary Lab for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to watch two Americans and two Bulgarians that have never met each other until the day we arrived,\u201d Peters said. \u201cI put them in teams and they\u2019re off and running, and then they\u2019re figuring out the topics and starting to shoot and edit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peters said the primary objective of traveling so far is to replicate what students will face once they get jobs in the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt puts the students in a real-world situation where they have an assignment, they\u2019re living on location as if they were on a CNN crew being sent to do a documentary about Bulgaria,\u201d Peters said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UCF\u2019s film department is one of the most intensive and innovative in academia, Jane and Peters said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the most innovative programs in the country where students are put in a real world situation, taken overseas and put under the pressure of time and resources to make documentaries,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n
The students will not know their partners or their topic until they arrive, Peters said.<\/p>\n
Peters said he\u00a0fully finances the trip and\u00a0appreciates that UCF\u00a0not only\u00a0allows students to travel but is\u00a0also\u00a0so supportive of the program.<\/p>\n
Jane said that she is looking forward to this “amazing” opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to work out, but by the end of the month, we will have made a whole documentary and had fun and met some cool new friends across the globe,\u201d Jane said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate film student Tracy Jane (right) and other UCF film students prepare to leave on May 10 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4401,115,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-250738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-academics","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}