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Documentary

Alum-Produced Documentary Screens at the White House

July 17, 2023

Photo: Two individuals stare with their backs facing the camera over a bridge. On the left, a woman with a hijab wearing a light-colored checkered shirt. On the right, a man in a blue button up.

FILM

Alum’s Short Tackles Mental Health in the Muslim Community

July 10, 2023

Black and white Photo: Rock Hudson, a white man wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt, looks to the right. Waves of large body of water from the beach shore can be seen in the blurred background behind him.

TV & Film

BU Alum Explores the Double Life of Actor Rock Hudson in New HBO Documentary

June 29, 2023

Photo: Members of the The Writers Guild of America (WGA) picket outside Paramount Pictures on Friday, May 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. Various people walk and hold signs that read "Writers Guild on Strike" along with handwritten text and sayings. They walk in front a large gate that reads "Paramount Pictures".

Television

For BU Alums in Hollywood, the Strike Is about Survival in a Streaming, AI World

May 9, 2023

Photo: Black and white photo shows sunset traffic passing Boston University on Storrow Drive in 1964. A large lit building is shown next to a whizzing highway as old school cars are parked on the lawn nearby.

Boston

Alum Remembers Navigating BU at the Time of the Boston Strangler: “A Magical and Frightening Time All at Once”

April 4, 2023

2K0TFB6 Los Angeles, USA. 12th Sep, 2022. Madeline Di Nonno, left, and Geena Davis arrives at the 74th Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images via Credit: Sipa USA/Alamy Live News

TV & Film

Fighting for Equity

March 27, 2023

Photo: Hong Chau arrives at the 95th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon. An Asian woman wearing a floral, half-toned blue and green dress. She stands in front of a dark wall with a gold letter sign that reads "Oscars95"

TV & Film

The Whale’s Hong Chau (COM’01) Is Nominated for an Oscar This Weekend

March 9, 2023

Photo: Deena Sheldon filming a Sunday Night Football game in Green Bay in 2008. A white woman with long, curly dirty blonde hair stands behind a large professional video camera on a high platform. She smiles as the photo is shot and a crowd of Green Bay Packers fans cheer in the stadium behind her.

TV & Film

Alum Deena Sheldon Inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame

February 8, 2023

Patriots fans Molly Winsten (Sargent’18) (left) and Erin Truex (SSW’15) didn’t meet at BU, but as players on the offensive line of the Boston Renegades women’s professional football team. Photos courtesy of Food Network

Food

Two Alums Crowned Winners on Food Network’s NFL Tailgate Takedown

February 8, 2023

Music supervisor Thomas Golubić (COM’93) says he sometimes gets to build character playlists for actors and directors to help them think about the characters they play in a certain way. Photo by Ashley West Leonard

TV & Film

What’s It Like to Be a Music Supervisor for a TV Show? Just Ask Thomas Golubić (COM’93)

January 23, 2023

Alfred Hitchcock and Henry Fonda on the set of The Wrong Man in 1956. Credit: MARKA/Alamy Stock Photo

Government & Law

Zooming In on Wrongful Convictions

January 18, 2023

A composite image with photos of Liz Patrick, and a background of the NYC skyline in black and white

TV & Film

Saturday Night Live’s New Director Talks Sketch Comedy, MTV, and Ellen DeGeneres

November 3, 2022

Photo: Jenn Lindsay poses for a photo. A white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a white collared shirt and yellow jacket poses in front of a blue wall and looks to the left.

Diverse Film & TV

Opening Doors: Jenn Lindsay (GRS’18), Founder of So Fare Films

October 25, 2022

Photo: Alums Les Gordon (left) and Dafna Krouk-Gordon sit in an empty theater and pose for the camera. An older white man wearing glasses and a black long sleeved shirt sits tot he left of an older white woman wearing a white top. They both sit in an empty theater with red seats and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Keeping a Small-Town Movie House Alive

October 11, 2022

Photo of Michael Russell Gunn (COM’07) and Tristan Roche (COM’20) visiting the set of Thai Cave Rescue in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand. The two stand in a cave giving one armed hugs as they wear helmets with head flashlights on them and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Thai Cave Rescue Re-creates a Harrowing Story

September 21, 2022

Image: screenshot of Julian Shapiro-Barnum, a young white man wearing glasses and a light blue sweater over a white collared shirt, interviewing a small child eating ice cream. Julian holds a black microphone to the child.

CFA Alum

Julian Shapiro-Barnum (CFA’21) Heads to the Playground for Some Recess Therapy

September 16, 2022

Janet Lewin helps filmmakers develop the special effects technology needed to bring characters—like the Star Wars droid BB-8—to life on screen. Here Lewin and BB-8 sit in a cinema

TV & Film

Lucasfilm’s Janet Lewin Talks Star Wars and Technology

June 6, 2022

Photo of Roberto Mighty, an older black man with dark grey hair wearing a navy sweater vest over a white collared shirt, with a brown blazer and jeans, stands with hands on hips in front of a cemetery.

TV & Film

BU Alum Explores World’s Greatest Cemeteries in New PBS Series

April 14, 2022

Still from the movie Summer of Soul featuring Fifth Dimension during a performance. They wear orange, yellow and brown outfits, including jackets with fringe and bell bottom pants. The women at right at the microphone raises her hands as she sings. Three men at right sing into one microphone.

FILM

Updated: David Dinerstein (COM’84) Takes Home Oscar for Best Documentary

March 24, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See