Personal profile
Education/Academic qualification
Film, Directing & Screenwriting, M.F.A., Girls Room (9 min, short narrative film), Columbia College Chicago
… → 2007
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Teaching
Service
- 5 Professional Service
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Guest Speaker on Lois Weber (Early American filmmaker)
Gigante, M. (Participant)
2020Activity: Other › Professional Service
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Scriptwriting Panel Presenter and Respondent
Gigante, M. (Participant)
2018Activity: Other › Professional Service
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M I L K (short film) Screening and Peer Evaluation
Gigante, M. & Gabrosek, A. M., 2024, (Accepted/In press).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Assistant Director: "The Belle of New Orleans," short filmThis was a film-within-a-play, as part of the CSU Department of Theatre and Dance's production of "By The Way, Meet Vera Stark."I worked in the role of Assistant Director on the film.
Gigante, M. F., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Gigante, M. F., Slankard, C. & Joyce, J. B., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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FMA Curriculum Revision: BFA and BA program
Gigante, M. F., 2023, (Accepted/In press)Research output: Other contribution
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M I L K (short narrative film)Written, produced & directed by Maria GiganteM I L K is an 8-minute experimental-narrative film that uses comedy and discomfort to explore how women learn to be women, and whether they should accept or reject those teachings.PLOT SUMMARY: On a family visit, an impressionable young woman disrupts the harmony of the household when she fails to fill her uncle’s glass of milk to the brim.
Gigante, M. F., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Projects
- 4 Finished
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Teaching Enhancement Award "Film & Media Arts 151 Learning Outcome Redistribution”
Gigante, M. (CoPI)
CSU The Center for Faculty Excellence
04/3/23 → 05/3/24
Project: Research
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SPACES Urgent Art Fund for M I L K (short film)
Gigante, M. (PI)
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and SPACES
09/1/22 → 11/30/22
Project: Research
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FMA Curriculum/Program Revision Summer Contract
Gigante, M. (CoPI)
CSU/FMA/College of Arts & Sciences
05/9/22 → 07/29/22
Project: Research