Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason

Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason See your world differently. If you want to consider how images do their work, consider a minor in Film & Media Studies.

Images in movies, on television, and on the net move and inspire us, structure our ideas of race, class, gender, and sexuality, community and identity. The GMU minor in Film & Media studies explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinarit

y, the program addresses the increasing complexity and multiplicity of visual cultures and offers students the tools with which to read a variety of texts, including film, television, video, and new media. Most course work is offered through the Departments of Communication and English, with other courses available through the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, AVT, and Film and Video Studies. The two required courses provide an introduction to the languages of film and popular media and modes of analysis appropriate to each. They are prerequisites for all advanced work in the minor. Students select four additional courses designed to introduce a more specialized level of study. Students may decide to focus on film, television, or the study of mass culture, or they may choose some mix of courses that suits their interests.

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03/10/2025

Best Sunday! ⭐🏀

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03/09/2025

Here we go!

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02/26/2025

Posted • The future is Black, bold, and bright! 💡✨

Posted • Calling all FAVS juniors and seniors! We are hosting a FAVS 450: Internship Virtual Information Session.Monda...
02/26/2025

Posted • Calling all FAVS juniors and seniors! We are hosting a FAVS 450: Internship Virtual Information Session.

Monday March 3
6:30-7:30pm
Virtual Event: Zoom

Join Professor Rebekah Wingert-Jabi and Academic Advisor Maddie Portnoy to learn more about the FAVS 450 internship requirement and the process for enrolling, discuss tips for your internship search, and hear from FAVS students about their internship experiences.

Register on Mason 360
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Posted • The Board of Visitors (BOV) is the most powerful governing body at George Mason University. In light of recen...
02/26/2025

Posted • The Board of Visitors (BOV) is the most powerful governing body at George Mason University.

In light of recent federal policy changes and threats to critical higher education programs, it is more important than ever to pay attention to those in power— starting here on our campus. The BOV is the most influential actor shaping our student experience at George Mason, and we must ensure our voice leads every discussion. Check out this guide to learn more.

These are our tuition dollars, this is our community, this our university.

Let the BOV know that we’re watching.

Thrilled to have a local Connection | Isolation screening with two participants and G and so many crew members! Monday F...
02/16/2025

Thrilled to have a local Connection | Isolation screening with two participants and G and so many crew members! Monday Feb 17th at 6pm on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason University in the Johnson Center Cinema. Free and masked event! Sponsored by and more! PLUS a workshop on Trans and Q***r Storytelling with G and Dani Taylor who is both a participant and helped originate the project.
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02/13/2025

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A free screening of “Connection | Isolation” followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer G. Chesler (they/them), Professor ...
02/10/2025

A free screening of “Connection | Isolation” followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer G. Chesler (they/them), Professor of Film and Video Studies.

Join this event on February 17 at 6 pm!

With the support of the OSCAR FWSRA program, a group of undergraduate research assistants had the opportunity to participate in this film production project!
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Looking for a powerful read this Black History Month? 📚 Dive into stories that celebrate Black resilience, history, and ...
02/08/2025

Looking for a powerful read this Black History Month? 📚 Dive into stories that celebrate Black resilience, history, and excellence—from classic works to contemporary voices that continue to shape the world. Whether you’re exploring powerful memoirs, historical narratives, or thought-provoking essays, there’s always more to learn and appreciate. What’s on your reading list this month? Drop your recommendations below! 👇🏾
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This Friday! Join us for our Winter Warm-Up and Production Fair.February 7, 2025 | 11am-1pm | Dewberry HallThere will be...
02/03/2025

This Friday! Join us for our Winter Warm-Up and Production Fair.

February 7, 2025 | 11am-1pm | Dewberry Hall

There will be a FREE hot chocolate bar!

Come see advanced production students pitch their films and learn more about how you can work as crew on student film sets this semester. Some positions do not require previous film experience.

Register today on Mason 360. Link in Bio




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Film at George Mason is inviting GMU students to submit designs for our 2025 Mason Film Festival poster contest! The win...
02/01/2025

Film at George Mason is inviting GMU students to submit designs for our 2025 Mason Film Festival poster contest! The winning poster will be displayed across campus in both print and digital formats and on Film at George Mason's various digital platforms.

The winner will receive a $150 award and will be honored in our newsletter, website, and social media pages.

Rules and Specifications:
-Poster design should relate to Film
-The design must be created using the university colors and fonts must be from the approved fonts list per the university branding guidelines.
-George Mason green and gold must be used as the primary colors of the design. Accent Colors can be used in small touches but may not replace green or gold. Please refer to the University branding guidelines for hex codes.
-Font options: Figtree, Open Sans, Noto Serif, Acumin Pro, Kandal (fonts can be downloaded from the GMU branding guidelines)
-The final design should fit on an 11x17 in. poster
-Include dates and location of festival: Tuesday, April 29, Wednesday, April 30 and Saturday, May 3 in the Johnson Center Cinema
-Leave space at the bottom for logos
-Name file as follows: firstname_lastname_G
-Submit your information and send your design as a pdf file to [email protected]
-Entries will be judged by Film at George Mason faculty and staff
-The winner will be notified by Friday, February 21, 2025
-The winning design might be subject to edits at the request of the department.
-The winner will be asked to submit the working design file for the Film at George Mason department to add logos and sponsors as well as an Instagram square sized digital file (1080x1080 px).

Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025

Submit entries to: [email protected]
Please include "2025 Mason Film Festival Poster Design Contest Entry" in the subject line.
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Visiting Filmmakers Series is hosting a free screening of "Connection | Isolation," followed by a Q&A with filmmaker and...
02/01/2025

Visiting Filmmakers Series is hosting a free screening of "Connection | Isolation," followed by a Q&A with filmmaker and FAVS Professor G. Chesler

Monday, February 17, 2025, 6pm
Johnson Center Cinema

Register at the link in our bio.
Pre-registration is encouraged but not required.

"Connection | Isolation" presents eight intimate portraits of trans and post-gender individuals navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, these participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, and trans community. Created by an all trans and q***r crew, this hybrid documentary film interlaces portraits with reenactments, integrating archival material documenting what so many experienced and many still do. "Connection | Isolation" witnesses the profound ways that, despite physical separation, trans community-building has been centered. This documentary invites viewers to witness the strength of connection as an act of resistance, offering care in the face of crisis, and using reflection as a path toward healing.




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✨♥️✨ If you know me, you know I am beyond blissed out & ecstatic to see Black Barbie: A Documentary on the big screen & to sit down for a Q&A with the writer & director of @blackbarbiedoc @lagueriadavis ♥️⭐️♥️ Come watch with me!!! I’ll be your host for a FREE screening of the award-winning film, this Thursday, November 14, 4:30-7pm, at Mason’s Johnson Center Cinema, presented by @vfsmason 🌟♥️🌟 Register today & find more info at the link in my bio! #VisitingFilmmakersSeries #FAVS #BlackBarbie #barbiestyle #barbiecollector #barbie #barbiesofinstagram #kittyblackperkinsdolls #kittyblackperkins Reposted from @jessicakallista

Hey friends ✨♥️✨Have you seen Black Barbie: A Documentary yet? I’ll be your host for a FREE screening of the award-winning film, November 14, 4:30-7pm, at Mason’s Johnson Center Cinema, presented by @vfsmason & followed by a Q&A with the writer & director of @blackbarbiedoc Lagueria Davis! Join us! Secure your spot today & find more info at the link in my bio! #VisitingFilmmakersSeries #FAVS #BlackBarbie #barbiestyle #barbiecollector #barbie #barbiesofinstagram Reposted from @jessicakallista

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Each semester, the Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason brings to campus a variety of films and directors. Our first guest, in 1995, was Cheryl Dunye: she inspired us to “make our own history.”

Since then, our programs include: Cameraperson and Kirsten Johnson, Whose Streets? and Sabaah Foyalan, Hooligan Sparrow with Nanfu Wang, The Unafraid and with Heather Courtney, Dark Money and Kimberly Reed, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, with Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, In the Last Days of the City with Tamer El Said, In Lorton's Darkroom with filmmaker and photographer Karen Ruckman, producer Emma Pearce, and photographers Calvin Gorham and Michael Moses El, Road Through War with Louie Palu, Visitor's Day (Día de Visita) with Nicole Opper, 13th with cinematographer Hans Charles, City of Trees with Brandon and Lance Kramer, A Conversation with Christine Vachon, and Field Ni**as, with Khalik Allah.

See full list here: https://fams.gmu.edu/film-media-studies-visiting-filmmakers-series