Spotlight

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (SSHRC)

Professor Lisa Coulthard, Alum Lindsay Steenberg, and Cinema and Media Studies PhD, Gabrielle Berry, present at the Music and Moving Image Conference (MAMI)!

Thursday, May 28, 2020. Photo: Keanu Reeves in John Wicks, directed by Chad Stahelski, written by Derek Kolstad.

I Will Keep Your Light directed by Chelsea Xinyi

UBC Theatre and Film Celebrates Asian Heritage Month! 

In the areas of film and theatre, many scholars, academics, and artists from our department champion their work in Asian and Asian Canadian art. Photo: “I Will Keep Your Light” directed by Chelsea Xinyi.

Alumni Spotlight with Film Producer Rob Cowan

Alumni Spotlight with Film Producer Rob Cowan (Film and Television, BA, 1980)!

“To this day, there are filmmakers from my years at school that I still stay in touch with and we look fondly back on those days together at UBC.”

World Stage Design Conference 2021
Still from "American Woman"

Alumni Nominated for 2020 Canadian Screen Awards!

Congrats to our alumni nominated for Canadian Screen Awards for achievement.

Gerrit Krueper
Antoine Bourges

Welcome Film Production Assistant Professor Antoine Bourges!

Antoine holds an MFA in Film Production from York University and previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Humber College.

Professor Jacqueline Firkins Costume Designs the Court Theatre’s Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex”!

Professor Jacqueline Firkins Costume Designs the Court Theatre’s Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex”!

Jacqueline is also a published author. Her Young Adult novel, “Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things” will be released December 17.

Luciana Sylvestre Fernandez

Congrats to MFA Director Luciana Silvestre Fernandes on her SSRHC Grant!

Luciana will be directing “The Changeling” by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, Jan 16 – Feb 1.

Barbara Philip

Alumni Spotlight: BFA Acting Alumna and Master of Wine, Barbara Philip.

A proud alumna of the BFA Acting program, it’s not much of a leap from Actor to Wine Master.