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SLLF student nominated for BAFTA EE Rising Star Award
First year BA Film Studies student, Conrad Khan, talks to us about his experiences studying at Queen Mary and being nominated for a BAFTA.
Date added: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Ashvin Devasundaram shortlisted for the QMUL Community Engagement Award
Date added: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Steven Eastwood’s film Island in competition for best documentary
Date added: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Lucy Bolton in discussion at Philosophical Screens at the BFI
Date added: Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Living Memory project: a collaboration between Athena Mandis and Petros Karatsareas
Date added: Thursday, November 15, 2018
London Screen Studies Group Research Training Day at Kings
17 November: London Screen Studies Group Research Training Day at Kings (University of London). Lucy Bolton and Lisa Duffy will be chairing sessions at this day-long event for doctoral students.
Date added: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram to introduce a special screening of 'Lipstick Under My Burkha'
Dr. Ash Devasundaram will be introducing a special screening of the Indian Indie film Lipstick Under My Burkha followed by Q&A at the Portsmouth Film Society on 6th November. https://www.facebook.com/events/1075368509312398/
Date added: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Dr. Ash Devasundaram to give talk at University of Southampton
Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram is giving a talk at the University of Southampton on 13th November. The Rise of New Indian Indies: Torchbearers of an Indian Cinema Revolution
Date added: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Ash Devasundaram's new book out now
Film Studies lecturer Dr. Ash Devasundaram's new edited volume is out now: Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution https://www.routledge.com/Indian-Cinema-Beyond-Bollywood-The-New-Independent-Cinema-Revolution/Devasundaram/p/book/9780815368601
Date added: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Taking a Bow: The Leading Man LGBT+
The Leading Man, a stage play written by Eugene Doyen, had two successful public performances on the Thursday and Friday in the run up to and in support of Brighton Pride.
Date added: Monday, August 6, 2018
The Leading Man: A New Stage Play
The Leading Man, a new stage play by Film Practice lecturer Eugene Doyen, had its first public performances 2nd and 3rd August at Purple Playhouse Theatre, Hove, Brighton. http://purpleplayhousetheatre.com/
Date added: Thursday, August 2, 2018
MA Documentary graduate wins festival prize
Our 2017 MA Documentary Practice graduate Capucine Salvi-Offer wins Best Short Documentary at the California Women’s Film Festival for her QM graduation film 'Knitting For Knockers'. Congratulations to Cappy! http://calwomensfest.com/Winners.html
Date added: Thursday, July 5, 2018
Movies, Memories, Magic
On 19th March Ash Devasundaram's new film, Movies, Memories, Magic, will be screened with a Q & A as part of the UK Asian Film Festival.
Date added: Sunday, March 18, 2018
Breaching Bollywood's Bastion: India's New Independent Cinema
Explore how India’s new breed of alternative ‘Indie’ films are sculpting a cinematic revolution - with Ashvin I. Devasundaram, Lecturer in World Cinema at Queen Mary, University of London. A talk at the British Library, hosted by Prof. Daya Thussu, co-director of the India Media Centre, University of Westminster.
Date added: Monday, February 12, 2018
London Asian Film Festival screening
The Centre for Film and Ethics presents a screening of Anatomy of Violence as part of the London Asian Film Festival.
Date added: Monday, February 27, 2017
The Interval and the Instant
A film practice research project by Steven Eastwood, presented by The Centre for Film and Ethics
Date added: Thursday, February 23, 2017
Over the Top: Representing the Battle of the Somme in the Cinema
Date added: Friday, January 8, 2016
Holocaust Animation: Textural Confrontations with a Difficult Past
Date added: Friday, December 11, 2015
Professor Janet Harbord - Ex-centric cinema: a history of the disallowed
Date added: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Lucy Bolton on 'Grace of Monaco'
Lucy Bolton writes for Times Higher Education
Date added: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Surviving Spaces: Action Sequences, Embodiment and Appropriation - a talk by Dr Nick Jones
Postproduction will be presenting Dr Nick Jones at the launch of his new book, Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory.
Date added: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
QM Film Studies Research Seminar: Pills, Queers and Archives!
Co-organized by the Department of Film Studies and Sophie Mayer.
Date added: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The Fox, a film by MA in Documentary Practice Student He He
He He was a student on the MA in Documentary Practice at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
'Film incites France's fury' by Dr Sue Harris
Dr Sue Harris writes on the release of a new film on the Dominique Strauss Kahn scandal
Date added: Friday, May 30, 2014
Living British Cinema presents: QM Films Afloat
The Floating Cinema, QMUL, Wednesday 4th June, 12noon - 4pm.
Date added: Friday, May 30, 2014
Nothing Bad Can Happen: Banality, Violence and Film. A research day with Director Katrin Gebbe
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Date added: Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Film Studies alumnus Marilena Parouti's documentary published online
Marilena Parouti: Theo Angelopoulos documentary published at Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies, Issue 2.
Date added: Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Dr Sue Harris presents at French film festival Premiers Plans
Dr Sue Harris was recently invited to attend the prestigious Premiers Plans festival.
Date added: Thursday, January 29, 2015
French benefits dispute with artists will haunt Hollande
By Dr Sue Harris
Date added: Monday, June 16, 2014
Vivien Leigh and the Star Archive
A study day on March 7th 2015, organised by the Film Studies Department at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Vladimir Tyulkin visits Department of Film
Vladimir Tyulkin (Kazakhstan) will present a double bill of his films.
Date added: Monday, March 3, 2014
Under the Different Skies: Thai Short Film and Artist Video Showcase 2014
Date added: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
On-stage discussion with Professor Dudley Andrew
The Film Department at Queen Mary University of London invites you to an on-stage discussion with Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Date added: Thursday, October 9, 2014
Fetishism and Skepticism, or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell
Date added: Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Author Kim Curran visits Queen Mary
Author Kim Curran visited Queen Mary
Date added: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
QM Film graduate wins Guardian competition
Congratulations to Matthew Kay
Date added: Thursday, June 20, 2013
An invitation to a celebration....Pictures, Places and Living Memory
Date added: Monday, May 11, 2015
WORLD CINEMA CONVERSATIONS SEMINAR SERIES 2016
CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS IN RUSSIAN CINEMA
Date added: Friday, December 16, 2016
WORLD CINEMA CONVERSATIONS SEMINAR SERIES 2016
HIDDEN HERITAGE: INDO-BRITISH FILM COLLABORATIONS IN THE UK (1930–51)
Date added: Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Talk: Professor Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois)
Talk: Professor Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois) ‘Sound in Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin'
Date added: Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Shame Chorus Project - documented by QM FIilm students
Shame Chorus is an uplifting new music and spoken word project created by international artist Jordan McKenzie, working in collaboration with the Freud Museum in London, psychoanalyst Susie Orbach and
Date added: Monday, October 10, 2016
Abject Agency beyond ‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Ethics in Global Cinema
We are pleased to announce the first event run by the Centre for Film and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London.
Date added: Thursday, October 6, 2016
Ash Devasundaram at 'Litro Live! India Launch'
On 13th October, at Waterstone's Piccadilly, department of Film studies Lecturer in World Cinema Ashvin Devasundaram will be giving a talk on his book and new Indian Indie Cinema.
Date added: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Ash Devasundaram dicusses dubbing movies on the BBC World Service
Ash Devasundaram, lecturer in world cinema in the Department of Film Studies, will be speaking on the BBC World Service radio programme, The Why Factor - Dubbing Movies, which will be broadcast on Monday November 13th 2017. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtbv
Date added: Monday, November 13, 2017
Ash Devasundaram to give keynote speech
Ash Devasundaram, lectrurer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, is to give the keynote speech on New Indian Cinema at the Community Cinema Conference and Film Society of the Year Awards organised by Cinema for All (British Federation of Film Societies). Full details available here
Date added: Monday, October 30, 2017
BFI Philosophical Screens
Dr. Lucy Bolton led a panel discussion for the latest instalment of the "Philosophical Screens" series at the BFI following a screening of Something Wild (1986).
Date added: Wednesday, May 9, 2018
"Southgate to Brighton" screened at London Greek Film Festival
Athena Mandis' new short film, Southgate to Brighton, screened at the London Greek Film Festival on 8 May 2018.
Date added: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Steven Eastwood wins QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Award
At the QMUL Enterprise and Engagement Awards, Steven Eastwood took home the prize for Academic Innovation for his documentary feature Island, and its sister art installation, The Interval and the Instant.
Date added: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
QMUL Tate Exchange Residency
As part of QMUL's week-long residency at Tate Modern, Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram participated in a panel discussion following a screening of Bag Mohajer (2016).
Date added: Saturday, May 5, 2018
"The Many Faces of Agnès Varda" at the BFI
"The Many Faces of Agnès Varda" was an afternoon of richly illustrated talks and discussions that provided an introduction to the work of Agnès Varda, including a presentation from Professor Sue Harris and a roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Jenny Chamarette.
Date added: Saturday, June 2, 2018
New publications from Dr. Anat Pick
Dr. Anat Pick has published chapters in two recently released edited collections. "Vegan Cinema" can be found in Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture, edited by Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood for Palgrave Macmillan. "Vulnerability" is published in Critical Terms for Animal Studies, edited by Lori Gruen for University of Chicago Press.
Date added: Friday, June 15, 2018
Vivien Leigh annual remembrance event
We were pleased to host the Vivien Leigh Circle again for their annual remembrance of the star. The event was impeccably curated by Dr. Lucy Bolton and highlighted the continued scholarship QMUL is doing on Leigh, as well as talks from PhD students Cathy Lomax (who also painted the art for the programmes) and Georgia Brown (who joined us via Skype from Scotland). The afternoon also included a screening of THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, generous pours of Negronis, a raffle of Leigh memorabilia and a visit from Puppy Vivien. For more pictures of the event, visit our Facebook page.
Date added: Sunday, July 8, 2018
'Movies, memories, magic' screens in Bangalore
Movies, memories, magic, directed by Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram, had an international screening at the British Council in Bangalore.
Date added: Friday, July 20, 2018
Dr. Lucy Bolton was an invited speaker at 'An Afternoon with Joan Crawford' at the BFI
Dr. Lucy Bolton co-hosted the sold-out event exploring the many faces of the Hollywood star as part of the British Film Institute's season "Fierce: The Untameable Joan Crawford".
Date added: Saturday, August 4, 2018
Multifaceted cinema screening events for 'Movies, Memories, Magic'
Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram, in conjunction with the UK Asian Film Festival, is crowdfunding for CrossCurrentz, which will bespoke events into screenings of his documentary.
Date added: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Dr. Anat Pick was a guest on the latest episode of Knowing Animals
Dr. Anat Pick shared insights into her latest research on the podcast. The episode can be heard here.
Date added: Monday, October 1, 2018
Queen Mary academic contributes to major report on urban violence
Dr Ashvin Devasundaram from Queen Mary University of London has contributed to a new report from the British Academy on the theme of urban violence.
Date added: Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Queen Mary alumna wins BAFTA for Best Single Drama
Stella Corradi has won a BAFTA for Best Single Drama for her film Sitting in Limbo, which was inspired by the Windrush scandal.
Date added: Monday, June 7, 2021
FILM REVIEW: Neuro-Diversity Explored in Film
Film Review by , Professor of Film, Queen Mary University of London
Date added: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Hollywood Icons: Elizabeth Taylor: A Fierce Love
Dr Lucy Bolton has recently featured on the Channel 5 programme 'Hollywood Icons'.
Date added: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Queen Mary student nominated for two AHRC research awards
Queen Mary University of London PhD candidate Alex Widdowson in the Department of Film Studies has been nominated for both the Best Doctoral or Early Career Film of the Year and Best Animated Film of the Year awards by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Date added: Friday, September 24, 2021
Alumni participate in Film Futures panel
On Thursday 25th November, a panel of Film alumni got together to share their insights and career journeys with students in an event organised by , Director of Education and Lecturer in Film Practice, and hosted by Careers Consultant, Heather Barsam.
Date added: Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Alumnus releases new film
Alumnus, Matt Kay (Film Studies BA, 2011) has recently released his latest film, To Live and Die in Alabama.
Date added: Thursday, December 2, 2021
Doctoral Researcher awarded 'best doctoral or early career film of the year' title by the AHRC
Doctoral Researcher within the Department of Film, Alex Widdowson, has been awarded 'Best doctoral or early career film of the year' by the AHRC at the 2021 Research in Film Awards.
Date added: Thursday, December 2, 2021
QMUL Film came 1st for Research Outputs (the books we write and films we make) and 9th overall in the national Research Excellence Framework exercise. This is the first REF we have been involved in and we are very happy that the excellence of our research has been duly recognised.
Date added: Monday, May 23, 2022
University rankings league table success
In the 2022 university rankings, QMUL Film came 5th in the Guardian League Tables and 6th in The Times League Table. We are very happy to have maintained a top ten position for nearly a decade.
Date added: Thursday, September 29, 2022
BLOC is complete!
Work is now complete on BLOC, a new Film & Drama Arts Research Facility at QMUL, comprising a state-of-the art 4K cinema with Dolby ATMOS, gallery equipped for multiscreen projection, sound-proofed film studio, performance project room, with interaction and monitoring capability from an adjacent post-production suite, and a sound-proofed recording booth. All spaces are fully accessible, physically connected, and digitally networked. We are excited to be programming this space from January 2023.
Date added: Monday, October 10, 2022
QMUL Film and Drama are hiring a Technical Manager for their new cinema and arts lab
QMUL Film and Drama are hiring a Technical Manager for their new cinema and arts lab Please see the link below for the full job description https://qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/8331.html
Date added: Friday, May 5, 2023
Date added: Friday, June 14, 2024
AI and Film Masterclass with Rahul Puri
“It’s important to find a balance between using AI and human creativity”, says India’s top film school director at Queen Mary University of London Rahul Puri, Director of Academics at Whistling Woods International—India’s top film school and one of the world’s top 10 film schools—recently delivered a masterclass on AI and Film at Queen Mary’s School the of Arts. The session, chaired by Professor Anat Pick, Head of the Department of Film, was part of a growing academic partnership between the two institutions.
Date added: Tuesday, February 18, 2025