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The Department of Cinema and Media Studies sponsored the professionalization mixer, "Meet Your Makers" at the Walla Walla Movie Crush (WWMC), July 11 2026. Rated as one of the coolest film festivals by Moviemaker Magazine, WWMC and CMS provided an opportunity for filmmakers of all levels to talk their craft and artistics vision with producers, other filmmakers, and CMS students and faculty.…
Professor Stephen Groening spoke with KNKX's Kirsten Kendrick about the social media phenomenon of Jimothy, the raccoon whose spinal disorder has captured the imagination of Ballard residents and a surprisingly large swathe of the social mediasphere. Listen to the conversation here: https://www.knkx.org/arts-culture/2026-07-31/rooting-for-him-how-seattle-short-spined-raccoon-jimothy-went-viral…
On June 24, I was slogging through my thrice-weekly check of all the platforms on which someone could need something from me.Slack. Nothing. Outlook. Ghost town. Except for the plethora of spam emails that I will maybe someday go through. YouTube. Why was I even checking that? Discord. A white notification dot appeared next to the channel for last quarter’s documentary class.I opened it to find a…
Congratulations to all of our students who completed their degrees during the 2025-2026 academic year! The Cinema & Media Studies department is proud to have awarded a grand total of two PhDs, three MAs, and seventy-eight BAs.As these Huskies embark on the next chapters of their lives in a wide range of fields - including careers in media, film, drama,…
The Department of Cinema and Media Studies is home to two academic journals: Feminist Media Histories (editor-in-chief, Jennifer Bean) and the Journal of Chinese Cinemas (editor-in-chief Yomi Braester). Department Chair Stephen Groening sat down with some previous managing editors of FMH – Kallie Strode (2021-2022), Cain Miller (2024-2025), and Ben Coldwell (…
A Los Angeles based production company paid me to write a short film script, and then fully financed and produced it.You did not mis-read that. However, as my UW screenwriting teacher Warren Etheredge told me, this is what they call “a unicorn.” Nobody pays you for a short film script. And they certainly don’t walk in with a fully funded $25K budget production. No - you write your…
Has the World Cup left you wanting more soccer? The UW Department of Cinema & Media Studies suggests some films to keep you going.
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With your experience double-majoring in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature Cinema Studies at the UW, how did these fields influence your career path? I started out in Classics, and then pivoted to Film, an area of study that lived in Comparative Literature at the time. When I first started college, I loved Shakespeare and wanted to understand the…
We are excited to announce a new addition to the CMS staff, Leah Gunter!Leah Gunter discovered a love for creative storytelling through student journalism, which led to their winning a Rocky Mountain Emmy in Student Production for Multimedia Journalism. From there, Gunter homed in on the filmmaking aspect of that process, graduating from Northern Arizona University’s Create Media & Film…
Diana Flores Ruiz and Sasha Welland (GWSS) have won a “faculty collaboration” award from the Simpson Center in support of “Visualizing Nuclear Histories.” Jennifer Bean and Ungsan Kim (ALL) have won a “co-taught course development grant” for their proposed course, “Global Horror and the Cinema Monstrous.”Golden Owens, Lauren Berliner (IAS, Bothell), Temi Odumosu (iSchool),…