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FIlm/Media Program

 

 

In the Film/Media program, we believe the most relevant media-makers have a deep understanding of film history, theory & criticism and the best media scholars should engage in the production of media.

 

For Film/Media students, production and critical studies are intertwined in a single process of developing a meaningful vision and grasping the social and cultural import of moving images.

 


Harrington School video by Dan Riordan, class of 2003.

 

 

 

About the Film/Media program

As part of the Harrington School of Communication & Media, Film/Media is an interdisciplinary program offering hands-on experience in documentary, experimental, and new media production, balanced with an emphasis on international cinemas, film/media history, criticism and theory. Students either major in Film/Media to work towards a BA or can minor in Film/Media.

Our curriculum reflects the dynamic and diverse nature of this field, approached from a perspective of film history and media theory. Students learn to work with the evolving and overlapping technologies involved in the production of moving images, (including film, digital video, 3D animation, game design, and new media), with an understanding of the broadening and globalization of their cultural and aesthetic contexts.

A wide range of courses is available to the Film/Media student—courses that examine the historical, theoretical and global approaches to the analysis and creation of moving images.

The Film/Media Program prepares students for careers in such areas as: independent filmmaking; animation & media design; film and television industries; advertising, marketing and public relations; and media criticism. Graduates of this program are also prepared to continue with graduate studies, in either film & media production for an M.F.A., or in a master’s or doctoral program in film & media studies.

 

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news & announcements

 

CONGRATULATIONS:
All 2012 Graduates!

Joyal Film/Media Excellence Award: Michael Commendatore
Joyal Film/Media Production Award: Francisco Vargas

2012 Joyal Film Prize Winners:

Live it Up by Kyle King
Smoke by Michael Higginbotham
This is a Love Story by Matt DiGennaro
Honorable Mention to Chef's Dream by Alexander Allaux

All the film prize winners this year are Film/Media majors or double majors!!

Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who submitted an entry!

The students each received a $1,000 prize for their work.
(The prizes are made possible through a donation by Fred Joyal '79).

 

Smoke by Michael Higginbotham

 

 

This is a Love Story by Matt DiGennaro


 

And Congratulations to Film/Media major, Timothy Mendonca, who was awarded The Randall/Brand Games Original Film Treatment Prize for Rough Point. Tim will receive a prize of $500.


The film treatment prize is donated by Scott Randall '76 and Brand Games.



film/media students in the news

Watch Colby Blanchet's short documentary that he shot in L.A. this semester about a young man who was shot in Compton.

Read about how Brett Geaber fulfilled his mother's vision for Fiji.

Ana Mallozzi enjoys healthy time in London after being diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma.

Kaitlyn Bouchard's film Father's Day was recently added to the official YouTube page and web site of the band Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers.

The URI Film/Media program is a proud partner with the Rhode Island International Film Festival.