Pat Brown's (PhD in Film Studies, 2019) essay “The Hands of the Other: Media Allegory in Bioshock and The Hands of Orlac” has been selected as the Best Essay in an Edited Collection by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies this year.

Chair of Cinematic Arts and Associate Professor of Film Studies Paula Amad will lead a student-focused discussion with Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney before his UI Lecture and the screening of his latest documentary Citizen K.

Essay Daily's Sarah Minor discusses "The Problem That Has No Name" by Hannah Bonner in her Visual Essay series.

Chris Harris’ experimental documentary, “still/here,” was shown in August at the Locarno Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland. The 60-minute film also has been shown in Toronto and twice in Brazil, most recently in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September.

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.