Centre for Media and Cultural Studies

09/11/2025

CALL OF ENTRIES:

It is our pleasure to invite entries for the 13th Edition of Cut.In Students’ Film Festival, organised by the School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS) at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

Cut.in is a national level film festival and a platform for students filmmakers across India to share their creative and critical engagements with contemporary social realities through documentary, short fiction, animation and experimental films. Over the years the festival has brought together voices from diverse regions and disciplines, fostering dialogue and exchange among early career filmmakers.

Submission Deadline: November 21, 2025
Festival Dates: February 12-14, 2025

Please send us your entries via Google Form: https://forms.gle/qk9TAzBc7v7V3Xt48

For updates about the festival, follow us on:

Festival Webpage: https://cutinsmcs.wordpress.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cutdotin/

For any queries, please write to us at [email protected].

10/05/2024

To interact with the School faculty register for our upcoming open house. Link to register - https://forms.gle/EMv8oExuunfHxY3N8

Admissions to the MA in Media and Cultural Studies at TISS, Mumbai have started. Interested candidates may apply through PG CUET 2024 at - https://appln.tiss.edu/

10/05/2024

Admissions to the MA in Media and Cultural Studies at TISS, Mumbai have started.

Interested candidates may apply through PG CUET 2024.

For more details on the programme and the school, please see our website:
https://smcs.tiss.edu/

30/03/2024

Glimpses from the exciting two days that the Digital Disruptions Film Festival 2024 was!

Spread over the two days, we watched 37 collaborative and community-centric films, programmed by 14 young programmers. Post screening, we were also in exciting conversations with the emerging filmmakers who have been experimenting with technology, processes, and collaborations. Apart from independent filmmakers, we had , , and .in who brought in their insights into the processes of training young filmmakers into making films with new media technologies.

Photograph credits: Mr Mangesh Gudekar, Rohith J, Angeline, and other students of SMCS.

25/03/2024

The first edition of Digital Disruptions Film Festival is here! Join us on the March 27th and 28th, 2024 to catch an array of interesting films that explore ideas of community storytelling in newer and challenging ways. We will be screening the films and be in conversation with the filmmakers at the Armaity Desai Conference Hall, TISS Mumbai, starting at 10 AM.

Link to the synopses of the selected films - https://digitaldisruptions2024.wordpress.com/selected-films/

01/03/2024

Last semester the Gender Media Culture class worked on a set of podcasts locating students as producers as well as consumers of media. Being feminist often entails a series of difficult and challenging conversations. This podcast focuses on the conundrums that arise out of being feminists, dilemmas that are at once personal and political. It's titled, 'In Here, Out There: Feminist Dilemmas from Outside the Classroom'

What does it mean to discuss feminism and complicate it within the classroom? To engage the world as a feminist? To engage with one's own ethical and moral dilemmas? The first episode created by Isha and Anisha is titled, 'Like Mother, Like Daughter?'

'Like Mother, Like Daughter?' addresses the dilemma of living a double life as feminists: one in a university space, away from home, and the other when we are with our family. In this episode Isha and Anisha talk to their mothers. Go on and listen in...

Everyday until 09 March we will share a new episode of the podcast layering narratives of feminist dilemmas from inside the classroom.

This episode addresses the dilemma of living a double life as feminists: one in a university space, away from home, and the other when we are with our family. We delve into a personal conversation with our mothers to explore the nuances of feminism. How much of a feminist are we with our mothers, an...

11/02/2024

Owlumni Meet 2024
School of Media and Cultural Studies 🦉🩵

10/02/2024

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DIGITAL DISRUPTIONS 2024

The School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, invites you to Digital Disruptions 2024. For the festival's first edition, we will program works produced using smartphones and new digital devices crafted by a community or in close collaboration and solidarity with them.

Last date for Submission: February 25, 2024

Submission Form: https://forms.gle/eEX9dUStvAX5wD1g9

For more information, visit: https://digitaldisruptions2024.wordpress.com/

For queries, email us at: [email protected]

30/01/2024

SMCS faculty, Nithila Kanagasabai writes on 'Forever fields: studying knowledge practices in the global North: a view from the global South'
Open access paper in the Gender and Development Journal

While there is a multitude of academic work with respect to cross-border collaborations between South Asian countries and the US, almost all of it is produced by scholars located in US universities...

13/01/2024

Join us for an evening filled with nostalgia, laughter, and reminiscing about the good old days!

Use the QR code to RSVP.

Kindly submit your responses before 31st January 2024.

11/01/2024

Frames of Reference 2024 brings to you a wide array of interesting presentations and films on Digital Citizenship in Contemporary India.

Join us at the Armaity Desai Conference Hall, TISS Main Campus, Mumbai on the 12th and 13th of January, 2024

31/10/2023

Attend the workshop 'Small Victories, Bigger Challenges: Gender in Hindi Cinema' at The Studio Theatre, NMACC on November 2, 2023.