We are pleased to share that Sessional Lecturer and alumna, Dr. Chelsea Birks has won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies prestigious Best First Book Award for her recently published book, Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film. Congratulations Chelsea!

The Go Global Greece program is a unique and exciting opportunity for students in the Faculty of Arts to undertake an academic seminar while travelling abroad. Watch the short film they created and meet the students who travelled to Greece last year.

After receiving its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Concrete Valley is off to Europe this month for its international premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival (The Berlinale).

Get ready to kick-start your career with the Telefilm Talent to Watch Program! This initiative offers emerging filmmakers and web series creators a chance to produce their first project with a grant of up to $250,000 ($150,000 for documentaries).

Participations, a journal of audience and reception studies, has a new online home! Ernest Mathijs, Professor in Film and Media Studies, is part of the core board and has been hard at work on the development of the brand-new website.

It is with sadness that we share the news of Colleen Lanki’s passing. Colleen started with the department as an adjunct and sessional instructor before becoming a Theatre Studies PhD candidate in 2018.