FMS is proud to announce that major Jack Mayer’s short film, Philia, has won best LGBTQ film at the Experimental Forum Film Festival. Experimental Forum is an international film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from auteur filmmakers and innovative video artists from around the globe.
FMS is proud to announce that major Jack Mayer’s short film, Philia, has been selected to show at the upcoming Experimental Forum Film Festival. Experimental Forum is an international film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from auteur filmmakers and innovative video artists from around the globe.
FMS major Sam Jaccaci produced a short film while studying abroad this past semester.
FMS is proud to announce that major Gavin Yao's animated short film, Encounters, has been selected from a group of 700 submissions to show at the upcoming Yale Student Film Festival, April. 18th through 23rd, 2022. The YSFF is a student-run short film festival, providing the opportunity for university-level filmmakers, from Yale and from around the world, to exhibit their work.
Film and Media Studies offers congratulations to our recent graduates on their admission to graduate school!
Sabrina won for her experimental narrative short film, Ephemeral, produced for the class.
FMS Major Tina Chen ('21) successfully completed and defended her honors thesis this spring. We talked to Tina about her research and its significance.
Adam Cohen ('15) took FMS 220: Introduction to Film and FMS 432: Global Art Cinema in his sophomore year, and graduated from WashU in May 2015. Since then, he has worked in commercial, TV, and virtual reality production, as a coordinator, first assistant director, and production manager. He has also written and directed his own work, and produced such projects as the new Shifter series. He hopes that the WashU film community will enjoy some of the work he's been up to lately, because he learned so much from others' work in FMS classes and through collaborations on the Danforth campus.
Twice yearly the Office of Undergraduate Research sponsors the Undergraduate Research Symposium. It is a forum for students to present their research findings and a celebration of the diversity of research that takes place at WashU. The event has included a keynote address, selected student talks, a poster session, and performances and demonstrations of projects.
Jenna Anderson ('19) was recognized for her outstanding academic achievement at the annual James E. McLeod Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 30, 2018.
Cal Young's paper “The Imaginary Reality of Terayama Shuji” has been awarded the Stanley Spector Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper in East Asian Studies in the undergraduate category.
Lauren Spungen, a former student of FMS's James Bond freshman seminar, has published an article in the undergraduate journal Film Matters.
A drawer slams like a gunshot. Condolence cards are tossed away. A young man collapses, overwhelmed by memory, his eyes bright with shock and loss.