Film & Media Culture

Graduate reception for Film and Media Culture’s 2014 majors. Near entrance on Route 30.

The Film and Media Culture Department presents a screening of the J-term Collaborative Video Projects.

Join us and your classmates screening films created in FMMC’s 2017 Collaborative Video Production class.

FMMC Assistant Professor David Miranda Hardy presents episode one of his recently released TV series, Bala Loca (Stray Bullet). The show finished airing in September in CHV, a Turner-owned Chilean network, to critical aclaim. Bala Loca centers on Mauro Murillo, a 50-year ¬old journalist with a past as an investigative reporter during the Chilean dictatorship. In the transition to democracy Murillo grew attracted to the glamour of entertainment television and found substantial fame and economic success.

Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.

Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will continue a line of inquiry developed in his recent book Mexican Screen Fiction by discussing the intersection of popular cinema and “quality” television in contemporary Mexico.

Roman Kent, Chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and President of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, will give a public lecture on his life and work in the week leading up to Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Join the Film and Media Culture Department as we present the collaborative video short films that were produced by students in the Collaborative Video Projects Course this J-Term. Free and open to the public.

Caetlin Benson-Allott, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of English, Core Faculty, Film and Media Studies Program, Georgetown University and Editor, Cinema Journal

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and critic who has made over 300 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound Magazine and played in several festivals including the Berlin Film Festival Critics Week. He is Chief Video Essayist at Fandor, was supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire.