Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has been hired as a professor at the University of Texas, and will be teaching students about taking a film project from script to screen.
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He will teach this autumn in the university’s Department of Radio-Television-Film.
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McConaughey will be a professor of practice at the Moody College of Communication, where he has taught as a visiting instructor since 2015, including teaching a class on film production with faculty member and director Scott Rice, reports Washington Post.
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According to Jay Bernhardt, dean of the communication college, the class has been conceived and designed by McConaughey.
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It involves “walking through an entire motion picture from the first draft of the script to post-production and release”.
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“It’s the class I wish I would have had when I was in film school,” McConaughey said.
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“Working in the classroom with these students gives me a chance to prepare them. Making movies, turning words on paper into film, is both a science and art — no matter the time or generation. The elements of truth and genuine joy for the process are timeless. That will always be our classroom focus,” he added.
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McConaughey has acted in more than 50 movies, including ‘A Time to Kill’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘Dallas Buyers Club’.
###FILE – In this Jan. 10, 2019, file photo, executive producer Matthew McConaughey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “True Detective” season 3 at the Directors Guild of America. The Oscar-winning actor will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university’s Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey has been a visiting instructor at the flagship campus in Austin since 2015 and the university said in a statement Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, that the appointment recognizes his “outstanding work as a teacher and mentor.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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