News

Film & Media Department alumni Patrick Ellis (Georgia Institute of Technology) to give a lecture as part of the Spring 2019 Geography Colloquium.

A model of San Francisco originally made by the Works Progress Administration was recently put back on exhibit. Every home and street, every field and dune, every pier and monument, all cast in miniature and spread out over 1,500 square feet, capturing the city as it appeared in 1939. The model has served many purposes, from urban planning to simple spectacle. It may seem a sui generis artifact, but it has its precedents.

Film & Media PhD George Larkin (2014) has published a book! 

Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of FilmmakingFrom the Silent Era to Synchronized Sound.

Fareed Ben-Youssef has accepted a tenure-track job teaching film in the English Department of Texas Tech University, beginning in fall 2019. Congratulations, Fareed!

Making Sex Public, and Other Cinematic Fantasies tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.

Save the Date!

The Film & Media Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 at 2:00PM in Zellerbach Auditorium.

More info to follow.

Pre-Approved Film Electives for Spring 2019

German 186 – Transnational Cinemas: Situating Spectatorship in the Digital Era

English 190 – 013 – Sixties Cinema

Did you know that as a Film major you can get a special deal on the Cal Student Film Pass at the Pacific Film Archive? All UCB students can buy a semester-long pass for $40 that grants them admission to PFA screenings, but if you are a declared Film major, you get a further discount: it costs just $20 per semester. Just think, for less that the price of two admissions to a commercial multiplex or downtown Berkeley cinema, you can get unlimited admission to PFA's regularly priced screenings for an entire semester.

Film & Media Department faculty member Jeffrey Skoller to release new short film, The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors. 

Pre-Approved Film & Media Electives for Fall 2018

Italian 160 – Italy on screen’: Cinema, Politics and Modernity

Italian 170 – The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors

Donald Sosin, a famous composer and silent movie accompanist, held a master class on the unique art form at BAMPFA on Monday June 4th. The SF Chronicle wrote a great article on the event.

The Film and Media Department is pleased to congratulate Bishal Dutta on the premiere of his film "Life in Color" at the Cannes Film Festival as part of The American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker LGBTQ Showcase. Please see the DailyCal article on the event.

The Department of Film & Media is pleased to congratulate Russell Merritt on his 2018 David Shepard Career Achievement Award from the Denver Silent Film Festival! 

We are pleased to welcome Ellen Rae Spiro as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2018. She has been a Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas since 1998.

On Friday, December 1st, Film 180, our advanced screenwriting class taught by lecturer J. Mira Kopell and aided by showrunner Justin Vaccaro, gathered in Dwinelle to read their speculative script of the season 8 premiere of Game of Thrones. The Daily Cal published a write-up of the event.

The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies major for Spring 2018.

Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and further information. 

French 170 – CN:39629   (25 seats) 
French Films: Introduction to French Cinema 

French 141 – CN:39616   (40 seats)
French Studies in an International Context
France, Europe and the Refugee "Crisis": Explorations in Fiction and Film

A recent graduate of Film & Media studies, Jovan Robinson, has been chosen with seven other writers to participate in the initiative from CBS Entertainment Diversity and Inclusion. Jovan was selected from a pool of 1,300 applicants!

Read more about the program and Jovan's achievements in the Hollywood Reporter.

Launching Summer 2018!