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Actor Michele Riondino Visits CIMS Film Class
On April 8, the actor/director Michele Riondino visited the Spring 2024 Italian cinema class. The students had just watched the Disney+ series The Lions of Sicily (2023), in which Riondino plays the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Vincenzo Florio. The students prepared questions for Riondino, and carried on a conversation with him about Italian cinema and television.
2024 Italian Film Festival
We’re pleased to announce the 2024 Italian Film Festival lineup! The festival, co-organized by CIMS Associate Director, Dr. Jim Carter, will screen local premieres of three recent critically-acclaimed Italian films. Each screening will have a different location! The Boston University screening will take place on April 10th and feature a Q&A with the Director of […]
CIMS Director Jonathan Foltz Featured in BU Today
Earlier this week, CIMS Director Jonathan Foltz was featured in BU Today’s article about the upcoming Oscars ceremony, “#Kenough, Barbenheimer, and Emma Stone: BU Film Experts Predict the Oscars.” Foltz was interviewed about his Oscar predictions alongside Harvey Young, dean of the College of Fine Arts. Foltz and Young talked with BU Today about who they think […]
Erica Beinhacker Interns for Boston Jewish Film Festival
CIMS Graduating senior, Erica Beinhacker, recounts her work at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, which took place this past November. This past fall I had the opportunity to work for the Boston Jewish Film Festival, an annual film festival that screens contemporary films from around the world. I joined the company a few months before […]
CIMS Student, Alaina Minarik, Accepted to Sydney Film Festival Study Abroad
Alaina will spend the summer in Australia as a participant in the Sydney Film Festival and Internship Program. During her study-abroad experience, she will attend screenings and forums at the Sydney International Film Festival, enroll in a course that examines the development of Australian film and filmmaking, and complete an internship with a broadcaster […]
CIMS Senior, Danielle Momoh, Releases First Film
Check out the film on instagram: @birdsandthebees.film CIMS student, Danielle Momoh, CAS 24 has recently completed her first short film, What Do They Say About Apples and Trees, Birds and Bees?. It will premiere on campus on Wednesday, February 14th in COM 101 at 5:30pm. Momoh came across the script when combing through some scripts […]
CIMS Students Film Documentary on BU Music Scene
Watch their 8-minute documentary here As part of the coursework in Prof. Jennifer Cazenave’s Fall 2023 course “Auteur Filmmaking: Céline Sciamma and Sébastien Lifschitz”, students were assigned to small groups to create their own documentary short film focusing on an invisible history around Boston. This project reflected the work of Lifshitz, who was fascinated […]
Jennifer Cazenave Gives Lecture in Paris with the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information
Last week, as part of the Claude Lanzmann retrospective organized by the Bibliothèque publique d’information at the Centre Pompidou, Professor Jennifer Cazenave, Director of Undergraduate Studies in CIMS, traveled to Paris to give a public lecture on the largely unedited interviews with women survivors found in the outtakes of Lanzmann’s renowned documentary Shoah. Still as […]
Carl Sprague Gives Talk at BU
On November 16th, the Cinema & Media Studies Program was joined by Art Director, Carl Sprague, for a conversation about his work with Wes Anderson, a collaboration that has spanned over 20 years. He presented sketches and stories from The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The French Dispatch. Thank you to all who attended and […]
Jennifer Cazenave Quoted in “Le Monde”
Jennifer Cazenave, Director of Undergraduate Studies in CIMS, was recently quoted in Le Monde and interviewed on a French Youtube show about Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the outtakes from it, which was the subject of her first book. Prof. Cazenave has also published an article about the outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah for Balises (https://www.bpi.fr/balises-11/ ), which is the magazine of the […]