Umass Film Studies is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program that offers graduate and undergraduate tracks. Here you can learn film history, criticism, theory, and aesthetics, as well as production
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The Certificate Program in Film Studies offers a comprehensive course of study in the history, criticism, theory, aesthetics, and production of the moving image in the unique context of an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program. The Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies is the home of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, an annual series that brings to the campus and Five College community important new international films and visiting filmmakers. Certificate students are encouraged to participate in the Festival’s one-credit colloquium and internship program as well as in the annual Five College Student Film and Video Festival which showcases the best work of students in the Five Colleges and offers valuable opportunities to Certificate students interested in production to screen their film and video projects and to participate in producing and organizing the Festival.
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Still looking for a summer course? Check out Film-st 497 taught by professor Patricia Montoya!
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Still looking for a summer course? Check out Film-st 497 taught by professor Patricia Montoya!
#umass #summercourses #filmstudies #umassamherst #ilc #film
Still looking for some summer courses? Check out Film-st 170 taught by professor Barry Spence!
Learn more about Professor Spence in our faculty highlight guide!
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Still looking for some summer courses? Check out Film-st 170 taught by professor Barry Spence!
Learn more about Professor Spence in our faculty highlight guide!
#umass #summercourses #filmstudies #umassamherst #ilc #film
Happy Friday! Looking for something to watch this weekend? We got you!
Make sure you check out @umassupc streaming Onward tomorrow!
Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check Film/Judaic 354
Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check Film/Judaic 354
Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check FILM-ST 320! 📝
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Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check FILM-ST 320! 📝
#classspotlight #umassfilmstudies #umass #filmstudies #undergrad
Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check FILM-ST 170 📺
Looking for a class for next semester? Look no further; check FILM-ST 170 📺
Happy Friday! Looking for something to watch this weekend? We got you!
Make sure you check out @umasshockey tomorrow night!
Live conversation and audience Q&A with “Lucky Chan-sil” director Kim Cho-hee, moderated by Irhe Sohn, Smith College at the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, UMass Amherst.
A comedy/drama about women in cinema in South Korea, directed by Kim Cho-hee, the long-time film producer for Hong Sang-soo. In "Lucky Chan-sil," a successful film producer for a celebrated art film director finds her career abruptly derailed when the director dies. Blending dream and reality, Kim infuses her film with humor, imagination and intelligence, connecting a constellation of richly written characters all of whom intersect in some way with Chan-sil’s love of cinema and her calling as a filmmaker.
5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference will be held Saturday April 10, 2021!
🚨 If you’re able to attend some or all of the panels, registration is required! FIND THE LINK IN OUR BIO 🚨
It highlights student papers on movies, television, video games, and digital culture. 📺
Topics include: Crises in Patriarchy, Hitchcock (Re)considered, Questions in 21st Century Media, Feminist Interventions, and Challenges to Convention in Horror/Slasher Film and Video Games.
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Happy Friday! Looking for something to watch this weekend? We got you!
Make sure you check out @umassupc streaming Soul tomorrow!
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Registration for summer courses is underway! Film St 353: African Film, will be taught during the Summer 2021 session of July 6-August 13. Register now! Check out the trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRBFWlisHY&t=2s
Class Trailer for Professor Mensah's course, "African Film" at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Registration for summer courses is underway! Film St 284: Undead Souths, will be taught during the Summer 2021 session of July 6-August 13. Register now! Check out the trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJwQwt6UV2c&t=6s
Class Trailer for Professor Mensah's course, "Undead Souths: The Southern Gothic and Francophone Mythologies in Film & Television" at the University of Massa...
Looking for a film to watch this #tbt ? We got you! Check out the 1987 Babette’s Feast! 🎥🍿
Watch now on HBO MAX & The criterion channel!
Looking for a film to watch this #tbt ? We got you! Check out the 1987 Babette’s Feast! 🎥🍿
Watch now on HBO MAX & The criterion channel!
Live conversation and Q&A with Adam Golub, the Director of "Your Mother's Comfort" and Indianara Siqueira, the trans activist and political leader at the center of the film. Moderated by Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki.
“‘We transgender are the revolution!’ Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election cycle extreme-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is a forerunner for president of the republic. Indianara is the mother of a homeless shelter and community center for trans sex workers called Nem House in the center of Rio de Janeiro. Nem House is a squat and facing the threat of eviction Indianara occupies a colonial palace near Nem House to bargain with the city to save the house. As Brazilian democracy crumbles around her she fights to save her community from the uncertain streets.” (Official website)
This week for our Professor spotlight we are looking at Professor Barton Byg ! Make sure you swipe to check out more information about this faculty member! 🎞📽📝
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Looking for a film to watch this #tbt ? We got you! Check out the 1985 Tompopo! 🎥🍿
Watch now on HBO MAX & The criterion channel!
Looking for a film to watch this #tbt ? We got you! Check out the 1985 Tompopo! 🎥🍿
Watch now on HBO MAX & The criterion channel!
A live conversation and audience Q&A with the Director of Lift Like a Girl, Mayye Zayed, moderated by Kathryn Lachman.
“On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions – female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time – including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the irrepressible Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner–lot training site for over two decades – 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?”
MMFF is holding its fifth event tomorrow 🚨Wednesday March 24th🚨!
🗓 Wednesday March 24th at 1:00PM
Lift Like a Girl: Live Conversation and Q&A with Mayye Zayed moderated by Kathryn Lachman
Description: “On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions – female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time – including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the visionary Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner–lot training site for over two decades – 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?”
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MMFF is holding its fifth event tomorrow 🚨Wednesday March 24th🚨!
🗓 Wednesday March 24th at 1:00PM
Lift Like a Girl: Live Conversation and Q&A with Mayye Zayed moderated by Kathryn Lachman
Description: “On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions – female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time – including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the visionary Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner–lot training site for over two decades – 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?”
#mmff2021
This week for our Professor spotlight we are looking at Professor Jacqueline Urla ! Make sure you swipe to check out more information about this faculty member! 🎞📽📝
#professorspotlight #umassfilmstudies #umass #filmstudies
Happy Friday! Looking for something to watch this weekend? We got you!
Happy Thursday everyone, For this week's #throwbackthursdaymovie, we are highlighting a classic- Cleo From 5 to 7
Find it on HBO MAX
Happy Thursday everyone, For this week's #throwbackthursdaymovie, we are highlighting a classic- Cleo From 5 to 7
Find it on HBO MAX
Live Conversation and Q&A with Filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné
Forensickness
(2020, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, France, 40 mins, in French with English subtitles)
In an attempt to analyse Chris Kennedy’s ‘Watching the Detectives’, a researcher dives into a massive archive of media produced after the Boston attacks. Her online wanderings offer a performative exploration of the history of critical thinking and the ruthless politics of truth production.
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Watching the Pain of Others
(2018, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, France, 31 mins, in English/French)
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film “The Pain of Others” by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
MMFF is holding its fourth event tomorrow ( Wednesday March 17th)!
Live Conversation and Q&A with Filmmaker
Via Facebook and YouTube
(Weds, March 17 at 12:30PM EST)
Forensickness
In an attempt to analyse Chris Kennedy’s ‘Watching the Detectives’, a researcher dives into a massive archive of media produced after the Boston attacks. Her online wanderings offer a performative exploration of the history of critical thinking and the ruthless politics of truth production.
Watching The Pain of Others
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film “The Pain of Others” by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
#mmff2021
MMFF is holding its fourth event tomorrow ( Wednesday March 17th)!
Live Conversation and Q&A with Filmmaker
Via Facebook and YouTube
(Weds, March 17 at 12:30PM EST)
Forensickness
In an attempt to analyse Chris Kennedy’s ‘Watching the Detectives’, a researcher dives into a massive archive of media produced after the Boston attacks. Her online wanderings offer a performative exploration of the history of critical thinking and the ruthless politics of truth production.
Watching The Pain of Others
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film “The Pain of Others” by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
#mmff2021
This week for our Professor spotlight we are looking at Professor Andrea Malaguti ! Make sure you swipe to check out more information about this faculty member! 🎞📽📝
#professorspotlight #umassfilmstudies #umass #filmstudies
Looking for something to watch this weekend we got you!
MMFF is holding their event now! Make sure you check it out 🎞
#mmff2021
Guest: Manijeh Hekmat (director)
Moderated by: Maryam Zehtabi, University of Virginia
“Filmed during the catastrophic floods of 2019 , Bandar Band is a road movie of aspiring musicians journeying across Iran to compete in a talent contest. Pregnant Mahla along with the other members of Bandar Band, her husband and one of their closest friends, starts her journey to Tehran from a southern province just when they have lost all they had in the flood. They still keep their hopes alive, however every road they take leads to a dead-end in a flood-stricken land. They intend to go to Tehran, but they wonder if it is just another turn around a vicious circle.” (Official website)
This week for our Professor spotlight we are looking at Professor Kathryn M. Lachman ! Make sure you swipe to check out more information about this faculty member! 🎞📽📝
#professorspotlight💡 #umassfilmstudies #umass #umassamherst #filmstudies
Happy International Women’s Day! 🎞
Today we are taking a look back in time to see some of the women who changed the Film Industry!
Make sure you check out our story later to see some women today who are braking barriers in making history!
#womenfilmmakers #womenfilmmakersofcolor #womeninfilm #internationalwomensday
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Any student formally enrolled as a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst may pursue a Certificate in Film Studies in conjunction with his or her departmental major. Upon graduation, students who have completed all certificate requirements will receive a Certificate in Film Studies that is noted on the transcript, in addition to their UMASS diploma.
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