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The Cinema Studies Major allows students to study moving image media as multicultural, transnational and richly humanistic phenomena. As a comprehensive liberal arts degree, the major cultivates an appreciation of the arts, an ability to communicate ideas using a broad array of media, and an understanding of how various cultures tell their stories.

24/11/2025

It's been a minute but we wanted to let you know what Cinema Studies at Oregon is up to these days. We continue to grow, more than 400 majors and almost 20 faculty and staff and...a new home on campus, Villard Hall. Villard has been completely restored on the outside and radically redone on the inside to include multiple new production spaces, including our first sound stage!
In celebration of this major moment in our development, and because we're the University of Oregon and always slightly short of cash lol, we're running our first fundraising event. The goal is to raise enough funds to fully equip the stage for our students, their faculty and their films.
Any gift is a big one for us, so please consider donating (link in bio) and sharing this post as wide as you can! Thanks, and GO DUCKS!

21/10/2025

📢 Come join us to test filmmaking equipment with reps from B&H and Sony!

🎥 Try out the latest gear, ask questions, and grab some free exclusive discounts.

📍 Villard Hall Common Area

📅 Oct 29 (11am–3pm) & Oct 30 (12pm–4pm)

✨ Free and open to all majors — don’t miss it!

20/10/2025

Are you interested in studying filmmaking and cinema studies in Ireland during summer 2026?

Taught by CINE Associate Prof. Mike Aronson, the Ireland Study Abroad Program is designed for students who want to immerse themselves in cinema studies in Ireland. Students in this 5-week program will get to work both critically and creatively, taking a course on contemporary Irish cinema and a course on digital filmmaking.

Apply early—this program fills quickly and may close before the deadline. Learn more and apply. Link in bio!

13/10/2025

Cinema Studies is excited to sponsor five
student filmmaking teams for the 10th Annual 72-Hour
Horror Film Competition (Oct 16–19). Public screenings
& audience voting at Art House: Oct 25–28. For full
details, see the EFS linked via the QR code.

Cinema Studies will cover: Your registration fee + 5
tickets for you and your crew.

This will be awarded on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE
basis if you meet the following requirements:
1. Must be CINE major.
2. Must be currently enrolled in or have taken CINE 270
, Intro to Narrative Production.
3. Have aligned a crew to help with production.
4. Must compete in competition and complete a film. If
you miss the deadline and are out of eligibility for
competition, you will still be funded for this.
5. Submit a final product to us.

To apply or with questions, contact André Sirois:
[email protected].

08/10/2025

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Masami Kawai for receiving the 2025 Sundance Institute Filmmaker Fund Award for her film “Valley of the Tall Grass”!

This $120,000 award was given to ten filmmakers who are part of the Institute’s Artist Accelerator Program, which, according to Variety, “promotes artist development through yearlong fellowships, funding, and ongoing artist support.”+

Check out the link in our bio to read the full article and learn more about “Valley of the Tall Grass” by Masami Kawai!

07/10/2025

Cinema Studies is excited to sponsor five student filmmaking teams for the 10th Annual 72-Hour Horror Film Competition (Oct 16–19). Public screenings & audience voting at Art House: Oct 25–28. For full details, see the EFS linked via the QR code.

Cinema Studies will cover: Your registration fee + 5 tickets for you and your crew.

This will be awarded on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis if you meet the following requirements:
1. Must be CINE major.
2. Must be currently enrolled in or have taken CINE 270, Intro to Narrative Production.
3. Have aligned a crew to help with production.
4. Must compete in competition and complete a film. If you miss the deadline and are out of eligibility for competition, you will still be funded for this.
5. Submit a final product to us.

To apply or with questions, contact André Sirois: [email protected].

03/10/2025

📢 Come join us to test filmmaking equipment with reps from B&H and Sony!
🎥 Try out the latest gear, ask questions, and grab some free exclusive discounts.
📍 Villard Hall Common Area
📅 Oct 29 (11am–3pm) & Oct 30 (12pm–4pm)
✨ Free and open to all majors — don’t miss it!

01/10/2025

🎬TOMORROW!

CINE Students! Did you know you can earn credit for your paid or unpaid internships by enrolling in CINE 404—The Internship Class? This course is offered year-round, so don’t miss the chance to get credit for your experience!

📣 Want to learn more?
Join us for the Internship Info Session with Instructor Alissa Phillips to get all the details on how to find internships and register for credit.

📅 Thursday, October 2nd
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 McKenzie Hall 214

Bring your questions—see you there! 👋✨

30/09/2025

Visit Cinema Studies in our new home in the newly renovated Villard Hall! 📽🎦💚

27/09/2025

🎬 CINE Students! Did you know you can earn credit for your paid or unpaid internships by enrolling in CINE 404—The Internship Class? This course is offered year-round, so don’t miss the chance to get credit for your experience!

📣 Want to learn more?
Join us for the Internship Info Session with Instructor Alissa Phillips to get all the details on how to find internships and register for credit.

📅 Thursday, October 2nd
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 McKenzie Hall 214

Bring your questions—see you there! 👋✨

23/09/2025

Calling CINE Students! 🎬

📽️ CINE 270: Narrative Production I introduces the basics of film production. Through praxis, students explore the process of filmmaking—including pre-production, production, and post-production. The first half of the course focuses on film grammar, film equipment, on-set protocol, and editing; the second half of the class puts these concepts into practice. Collaboration is essential to filmmaking (and the major), so this course employs it as a pedagogical tool. The class is divided into four groups; in the latter half of the term, each student works on six films and rotates through different crew positions to get an overview of the filmmaking process.

These six positions include: producer/director, assistant director, cinematographer, sound mixer, and actor. When you produce/direct, you are responsible for pre-production materials, editing, and presenting your exercise to the class during its critique. Each week of the term will develop your awareness of the relationship between theory and practice—by viewing selected film clip case studies; practicing film grammar and techniques; critiquing the exercises of your peers; or reflecting on your own role in each film.

🗓️ Offered:

CRN 11412 • Mon & Wed • Noon–2:50 pm (Instructors: Dib, May)

CRN 11413 • Tue & Thu • 10 am–12:50 pm (Instructors: May, Phillips)

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Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00

Telephone

+15413468104

Website

http://cinema.uoregon.edu/

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