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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 faculty, 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),…
Comedy transcends boundaries, space, time…and zoom? I’ll admit, some of us were apprehensive at first when we heard we would be speaking with the extraordinarily talented Taylor Tomlinson, but over a video call instead of in person. We were all still scarred from the COVID era of comedy, where the sign of a joke landing was the eye crinkles above the mask. But all that worry was quickly assuaged…
What is your favorite movie-theater snack? I’m not sure I should admit it, but I bring my own food into the theater – nothing like a homemade sandwich with a favorite cheese, especially when surviving multiple screenings on the same day! What brought you to the University of Washington? They gave me a job! And in one of the most beautiful cities in…
In partnership with the UW Alumni Association, the College of Arts & Sciences engaged alumni and community members for two thought-provoking topics during the annual "Husky Days in the Bay" event series in San Francisco, including a live "Ways of Knowing" podcast taping that examined the realities, possibilites, and ethical stakes of AI and quantum technologies through the lens of science,…
On Friday, May 15th, 2026, students and faculty, friends and family, were all invited to experience the innovative videographic work of three Cinema and Media Studies (CMS) majors during the Visual Arts & Design Showcase. Held in the Allen Library Research Commons from 2:30 to 4:00 PM, the event provided each of the three CMS majors their own space to present their audiovisual research for…