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Gerry Hwang Wins BUCH Digital Creator Award

CIMS Senior, Gerry Hwang, has won this year’s Digital Creator Award in the visual category from the Boston University Center for the Humanities for his film The Lonely Jazz Singer. made The short film, which was born from a project in Prof. Jonathan Foltz’s Film Noir class in Spring 2024, follows a jazz singer through […]

Faculty Awards 2025

Prof. Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded the 2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education from CAS.  This award recognizes a member of the CAS faculty whose commitment and contributions to graduate teaching, mentoring and/or program development have significantly raised the quality and impact of post-baccalaureate training in their disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields. Prof. Cazenave received […]

CIMS Class of 2025

Meet our Class of 2025!   Paulina Azzu  Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Cinema & Media Studies with a minor in Marine Science While at Boston University Paulina has worked on many film projects as editor, and explored her interest in Marine Science by interning in multiple labs across campus. Post-Grad: After graduation, Paulina would […]

Yiru Pan Accepted to Masters Program

Cinema & Media Studies senior, Yiru Pan, was recently accepted into the BU Masters in Television program within the College of Communication. Growing up, Yiru loved science fiction films and making small projects with her friends in high school and middle school. This interest lead her to study film at BU. While taking classes like […]

Jennifer Cazenave Receives Fellowship

Prof. Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. She will be spending next academic year at the Institute where she will write the remaining two chapters of her new book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive (under contract with Columbia University Press).  

CIMS 10 Year Anniversary Event

Thank you to everyone who joined our 10 year anniversary celebration last week! We couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished, together, as a program the past 10 years. “CIMS will teach you what a film is. What makes them interesting, timeless, beautiful, heartbreaking and funny… It will show you that film is the […]

CIMS Students’ Trip to The Coolidge Corner Theater

  On Tuesday, Students in Prof. Jennifer Cazeanve’s Spring 2025 Auteur Filmmaking class took a field trip to the Coolidge this week for a private screening and discussion of “Casa Susanna”. It’s an opportunity to get off campus and into the context of the greater Boston film community! In class, the students are working on […]

10 Year Anniversary Celebration Honored Guest: Sarah Colt

  The CIMS program is pleased to announce that award-winning filmmaker, Sarah Colt, will attend the 10 year Anniversary celebration on March 19th as an honored guest. She will make a keynote address on the importance of film education to prepare a new generation of filmmakers, scholars, and artists. Ms. Colt started her career as […]