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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

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 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

Image: Bottom half of the Give or Take movie poster, featuring actors actors Norbert Leo Butz and Jamie Effros in a still of the film. Words underneath read "Give or Take, You can't choose family"

Film & TV

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take

March 2, 2022

TV & Film

His App Won an Emmy. His Movie Wrapped. October Was Good to BU Alum Steve Vitolo

December 1, 2021

National Sports

Should Sports Teams Change Their Native-Inspired Names?

October 29, 2021

screenshot from new film Mass: (from left to right) Both looking distressed, Ann Dowd holds a bouquet and stands next to Reed Birney in hospital doorway

Film & TV

In His New Film, Reed Birney Finds the Role of a Lifetime

October 8, 2021

TV & Film

Alum’s Film Sheds Light on Rabbi Who Fled Nazis, Fought for Civil Rights

May 26, 2021

Composite image of three headshots of actor Michael Chiklis (’85), the center photo shows him smiling in a white button down with blue dots. The flanking photos show him more serious and have muted color overlays.

TV & Film

Michael Chiklis: Good Cop, Bad Cop, Superhero

November 20, 2020

Film

After Resurrecting Paramount Pictures, Jim Gianopulos Is Helping the Studio Navigate COVID-19

October 12, 2020

Photo of a computer, haggadah, and candles with a seder plate in the background. On the computer zoom call participants are seen.

Documentary Film

Documenting How Pandemic Lockdown Changed Eternal City’s Religions

July 8, 2020

Photo of a Crip Camp creators at Sundance. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/ Brandon Cruz

TV & Film

BU Alum Edited Acclaimed Netflix Doc Crip Camp

April 6, 2020

How to Train Your Dragon producer Bonnie Arnold pets an animated dragon

TV & Film

Bonnie Arnold (COM’78) on Her Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Feature Film

February 5, 2020

Adam Sandler’s character holds up a bedazzled Furby

TV & Film

Safdie Brothers Sparkle with Award-Winning Uncut Gems

December 16, 2019

A poster for the movie Frozen 2

TV & Film

BU Alum, Producer of Frozen and Frozen II, Calls Reaction to Franchise “Amazing” and “Humbling”

November 20, 2019

Portrait of Marc Maron standing in a dry waterway

Arts & Culture

An Uncensored Chat with WTF’s Marc Maron (CAS’86) on Podcasting, GLOW, and Staying Woke

October 8, 2019

Bonnie Arnold

Arts & Culture

How Bonnie Arnold Became a Hollywood Powerhouse

July 25, 2018

Cody Brotter, host of the Hollywood Terriers podcast, poses for a portrait in Hollywood

Alumni

Talking about Success in Hollywood

July 11, 2018

Rel Dowdell

Alumni

Where’s Daddy? Examines Interplay of Race and a Flawed Child Support System

May 8, 2018

Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World actor Jonathan Goldsmith

Film

The Most Interesting Man in the World

April 25, 2018

The Most Interesting Man in the World