DR. MARIO BEGUIRISTAIN

School of Entertainment and Design Technology

January 4, 2010

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mario Beguiristain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Film

School of Entertainment and Design Technology
Miami Dade College, North Campus
Office 2235-3
11380 N.W. 27th Avenue
Miami, FL 33167

phone: (305) 237-8319
fax: (305) 237-1367

email: mbeguiri@mdc.edu

website: faculty.mdc.edu/mbeguiri
or www.mariofilms.com

COURSES, SYLLABI AND POWERPOINTS

Click on course number for syllabus and Powerpoint lecture notes
	History of Film
	American Independent Film
	Screenwriting 1 (Dramatic Structure)
	Film Business, Marketing & Distribution
	Film Internship
	Mass Communications
	Visual Communication

FALL 2009 OFFICE SCHEDULE

Please call (305) 237-8319 for an appointment
Monday	6:00-7:00 PM Wolfson 3416
Tuesday	1:30-7:00 PM North 2235-3
Wednesday	3:30-5:30 PM Kendall 2208
Thursday	1:30-5:30 PM North 2235-3
Friday	4:05-5:30 PM North 2235-3

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Click on the name of the school for a link to their film program

Ph.D. in Communication (Cinema),
University of Southern California, 1978

M.S. in Film Education
University of Southern California, 1975

B.A. Comparative Literature (French/Spanish)
University of South Carolina, 1970

Film Production Workshop Graduate
New York University, 1967

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mario Beguiristain joined the full-time faculty at Miami Dade College's School of Entertainment and Design Technology after thirty years of experience in the fields of film production, advertising, broadcasting, and television program production.

Mario has created, written, produced and/or directed hundreds of television and radio commercials and over forty television special programs in English, Spanish and French for the NBC, Univision, CBC and Telemundo television networks.

PERSONAL PHOTO ALBUM

Click on button below for a look at a 34-page biographical slide show, featuring over 60 personal photographs, many of them taken on the sets of various film and television productions.

COMMERCIAL DEMO REEL

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3. Toyota 4X4 Truck "Truckzan" :30

4. Toyota 4X4 Truck "Pirate" :30

5. FL Lottery Fantasy5 (English version) :30

6. FL Lottery Fantasy5 (Spanish version) :30

INTERESTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS

"The Actors Studio and Hollywood in the 1950's:
A History of Theatrical Realism"

The Spring of 2007 saw the publication of my Ph.D. dissertation in a rewritten and updated version by The Edwin Mellen Press.

Theatrical Realism was an American film movement of the 1950s noted for its high aspirations to create a significant 'art' cinema. Ironically, the films that comprise this movement are virtually forgotten today. As Hollywood's continuation of the Italian Neo-Realist movement, Theatrical Realism was a direct result of the confluence of "Method Acting" as taught by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, the screen adaptations of the plays of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge and Truman Capote, as well as the teleplays of the Golden Age of Television by Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling, Horton Foote and Robert Alan Aurthur, among others.

Reviews:

..."the definitive study of how the interaction between a specific group of film artists and then-prevalent forces in American popular culture resulted in a particular film style that now belongs to history... This makes for a fascinating read--whether in the quiet, darkened halls of a research library or while lounging under the sun at the beach. That's something one can't usually say about scholarly works."
--Professor Peter Krikes, Loyola Marymount University.

Contains 40 plates (5 in full color). Available from Amazon.com

Telemundo Writers' Workshop

In 2004, Miami Dade College's School of Entertainment and Design Technology entered into a partnership with Telemundo Network to discover, nurture and train Telenovela writers--who are now in demand in the US Hispanic television industry. On its second successful year, this program concentrated on developing writers for Fiction TV and Digital Media. I have been in charge of curriculum development for both workshops. To view the presentations on the Telemundo Writers' Workshop given at the 2005 and 2006 Convocations, please click on buttons below:

The 1950's WideScreen Revolution

Lecture sponsored by MIAMIntelligence presented at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on November 14, 2004.

The show features 113 slides with over 500 illustration on the wide screen systems developed in the 1950's, such as Cinerama, CinemaScope, VistaVision, Todd-AO and others. To view, please...

British "Kitchen Sink" Dramas

PowerPoint Presentation for a lecture sponsored by MIAMIntelligence given on April 16, 2005 at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on the British Realist Genre of "Angry Young Men Films" or "Kitchen Sink Dramas" that dominated UK Cinema between 1958 and 1964.

The work of directors Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, John Schlesinger, Lindsay Anderson and Richard Lester is discussed. To view, please...

The Hanoi Cinematheque Lectures

PowerPoint Presentations for a five-day course given at the invitation of The Hanoi Cinematheque, June 6-10, 2005.

"Five Innovations That Shaped Cinema."

1. The Invention of Motion Pictures

2. The Arrival of Sound

3. The Development of Color Cinematography

4. The WideScreen Revolution

5. Computer Generated Imagery

An Accidental Discovery On The Trail Of The CinemaScope Holy Grail

While on vacation in Paris during the Summer of 2007, the author made an unexpected discovery on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of CinemaScope.

Click on the button below to read the whole story as it appeared in "in70mm.com":

MDC Magazine Article

In September of 2008, MDC Magazine's "Those Who Teach" issue featured an in-depth profile of Professor Mario Beguiristain by writer Gariot P. Louima entitled "Final Cut."

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