Christopher Harris and Michael Gibisser recently had their films screened at festivals in Brazil and Canada respectively.

UI has debuted a new undergraduate screenwriting degree program this fall in hopes of fostering the next wave of storytellers on the big and small screens.

Hercher will continue work on her experimental documentary Daddy of ‘Em All during her residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Mass MoCA.

Cinematic Arts Film Studies PhD candidate Hannah Bonner was recently published in a special edition of South Central Review: #MeToo, Moving Forward.

Platte has published a chapter on George Gershwin's musical contributions to Shall We Dance (1937) and A Damsel in Distress (1937) in The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin.

The schedule for the Fall 2019 Film Club will be The British Invasion: British Genre Cinema from Post-WWII to Present.

A short film by Michael Gibisser, assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Cinematic Arts, will have its world premiere Sept. 6 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A thesis film made by Christopher Harris in 2000 is seeing a resurgence. The University of Iowa associate professor and his film, “still/here,” were featured this summer in a retrospective of black filmmaking at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.