At this time of societal crisis and national anguish, the faculty would like to show our respect to the whole Film and Media community by shifting the date of the Senior Culminating Showcase to June 12th.
The Department of Film & Media Studies strongly supports and stands with the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality . Please read their statement and consider the support options they have provided.
Join our seniors as they share their culminating works in this Online Festival. Screenplays, Critical Presentations, Text-Based Games & Short Films all will be presented June 5th.
Tune in to Film & Media Studies YouTube Live or Facebook Live page for a special online screening featuring films from this winter's Film Studies 37 Directing for the Camera and FS44 Docufantasy courses. Introduced by Professor Iyabo Kwayana and followed by a live Q&A with the student filmmakers, the show begins at 7PM, May 22nd!
A documentary produced in the fall FS30: Documentary Videomaking class was selected to screen at the Global Impact Film Festival in Washington, DC. Under the Bridge looks at a homeless camp in Hartford, VT, through the life of one of its inhabitants.
Professors Iyabo Kwayana (Film and Media Studies) and James Whitfield (Physics) were awarded a SPARK Provost grant towards beginning production of their film about COVID-19, quantum entanglement, and the myth of separation.
Film & Media Studies Department Chair Paul Young will read from his auto-biographic 2016 book Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism and discuss the controversy “If Marvel movies aren’t cinema, what are they?” Monday the 20th at 7PM as part of Cine Salons online program.
"The experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack is secretly one of the best directors of musicals working today": Professor Mack's short film Curses was featured in the New York Times in a new series
Out of an abundance of caution, the Ciné Salon screening of "Ulysses’ Gaze” for Monday, March 9, 7:00PM is cancelled. We are planning to reschedule for a later date as well as the rest of the Spring series
The students of Film Studies 44 DocuFantasy will premiere their films on March 10th at 5PM in the Loew Theater, Black Family Visual Arts Center. The screening is open to all and free of charge. Works by Awo Adu '22, Marina Cepeda ‘21, Justin Ko ‘22, Leatile Monthe ‘20, Sia Peng ‘20, and Tamerick J. Simpson ‘20
