Professor of Documentary / News Production

Year Joined RCNJ: 1999

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7120
• Email: mbautis@ramapo.edu
• Office: H-104
• Office Hours: Mon. 12:00-2:00 PM and 6:00-7:00 PM

Education:

• B.A., Kean College of NJ
• M.A., Hunter College, CUNY

Courses Offered:

• Directing the Documentary
• Latino Images and the Hollywood Paradigm
• Sexual Politcs, Gender and Film Representation
• Race, Class and Film Representation
• Media Issues and Ethics
• Visual Storytelling
• Advanced Digital Filmmaking
• Fundamentals of Digital Filmmaking
• First Year Seminar: Conflict Resolution and Global Choices

Awards and Special Recognition:

• Main film production awards: New York State Council on the Arts, Paul Robeson Fund, Women in Film
• Mesquite Award at San Antonio Cine Festival for Home is Struggle, a documentary film.
• Honorary Award for Feature Length Documentary at San Antonio Cine Festival for Stories from Acahualinca.
• Documentary films selected to participate at numerous national and international festivals, including the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, in Sydney, Australia; the San Diego Latino Film Festival, in California; the New Latin American Cinema Festival in Havana, Cuba; the Human Rights Film Festival of Argentina; the Women at the Director’s Chair, in Chicago; the Chicago Latino Film Festival, among others.

Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:

• Rivers of Corn, documentary, work-in-progress
• When the Condor Meets the Eagle, documentary, work-in-progress
• Dreaming the Future, documentary, 2006
• Tanguedia Callejera, documentary, 2005
• Global Tango, documentary, 2004
• Stories from Acahualinca, documentary, 2003
• Nicaragua: the children are waiting, documentary, 2002