Cliff Welch, Ph.D.

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Audio-visual productions and reviews

Productions.

Co-Producer, Writer and Director with Toni Perrine, Soccer Class: Rules of the Game in the U.S. and Brazil. Projected two hour documentary on youth soccer in Brazil and the United States. (In progress.)

Producer, Writer, and Co-Director with Toni Perrine, Grass War! Peasant Struggle in Brazil 34 min. The Cinema Guild, 2001, VHS.     CINE Golden Eagle Award (2002). LASA Award of Merit (2001).

Producer and Writer, Guerra do Capim. 16 min. (VHS, 2000).

Producer and Editor, Latino Voices Grand Rapids-Holland-Muskegon 30 min. (VHS, 1998). (On the www4.gvsu.edu/latinos web site, go to "Resources" and then "Videos" for ordering information.)

Website organizer, www4.gvsu.edu/las and www4.gvsu.edu/latinos

Video Documentaries Presented.

Grass War! Peasant Struggle in Brazil. Premiered on 17 April 2001, Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Valley State University. Winner, Award of Merit. XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 7 September 2001. Broadcast on Holland Public Access in May 2001 and WGVU-PBS on 21 October 2001; Screened at the University of South Florida on 12 October 2001, Berry College on 28 February 2002, VI Brazilian Studies Association Congress in Atlanta on 4 April 2002; Universidade de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 11 June 2002; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 20 June 2002; Universidade Estadual Paulista de Presidente Prudente, Brazil, on 3 July 2002; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, on 4 July 2002; University Film and Video Association Conference, Ithaca College, New York on 8 August 2002; Conferência de História e Geografia da Faculdade São Luís, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil, 22 September 2003;  Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, Centro de Formação, Movimento dos Sem Terra, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 21 October 2003; and Semana de Comunicação Social, Faculdade Moura Lacerda, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 4 November 2003.

Guerra do Capim (VHS 2000). Premiered as a selection at the X World Congress of the International Rural Sociology Association Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1 August 2000. Social Sciences Seminar. Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 8 August 2000. Guest Lecturer Series. Universidade de Franca, Franca, Brazil. 11 August 2000.

Latino Voices (VHS 1998). Premiered at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, "The Latinos in West Michigan Project Kick-Off,"on 12 September 1998; Screened at Hope College on 26 September 2001.Grass War! Peasant Struggle in Brazil. Premiere. Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 19 April 2001.

Reviews.

Quilombo. A film by Carlos Diegues. In The American Historical Review. 97:4 (October 1992).

Various Latin American Films. Directory of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Made Film and Video (New York: Scarecrow Press/International Media Resource Exchange, 1996).

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