Cinema Studies

VAFF 2023 Spotlight: Celebrate UBC Theatre and Film Alumni

VAFF 2023 Spotlight: Celebrate UBC Theatre and Film Alumni

Congratulations to the UBC Theatre and Film Alumni featured in the Vancouver Asian Film Festival this year!

Explore Film History at the Visual Resources Centre

Explore Film History at the Visual Resources Centre

Learn about the Visual Resource Centre and the films its collection has to offer.

VIFF 2023 Spotlight: UBC Theatre and Film Alumni and Faculty Shine Bright

VIFF 2023 Spotlight: UBC Theatre and Film Alumni and Faculty Shine Bright

Congratulations to all the UBC Theatre and Film faculty and alumni featured in the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival!

Cinephile’s Editor-in-Chief Tamar Hanstke Leaves Behind Her Legacy With Website Redesign

Cinephile’s Editor-in-Chief Tamar Hanstke Leaves Behind Her Legacy With Website Redesign

Graduating MA student Tamar Hanstke speaks with us about what the Cinephile journal stands for and the benefits students can gain through it, as well as walking us through a redesign of the online archives.

Graduating students wearing grad caps and walking away from the camera

Congratulations to our Class of 2023!

UBC Theatre and Film is immensely proud of our Class of 2023. Over the past few years, these graduates have developed their imaginative, technical, and intellectual skills as they prepare to embark on their careers. We cannot wait to see what they do next!

Faculty and Graduate Students Presenting at SCMS Conference 2023

Faculty and Graduate Students Presenting at SCMS Conference 2023

Learn about what our faculty and graduate students are up to at this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference.

Chelsea Birks wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Best First Book Award

Chelsea Birks wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Best First Book Award

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!

Introducing a New Website for Participations, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

Introducing a New Website for Participations, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

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.

Kathleen Jayme is the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence for 2022/2023

Kathleen Jayme is the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence for 2022/2023

Each year the UBC Rogers Communications Multicultural Film Production Project brings a globally recognized filmmaker to UBC Theatre and Film as the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence.

Congratulations to our Class of Fall 2022!

Congratulations to our Class of Fall 2022!

UBC Theatre and Film is immensely proud of our Class of 2022. Over the past few years, these graduates have developed their imaginative, technical, and intellectual skills as they prepare to embark on their careers. We cannot wait to see what they do next.