Film & Media Studies News & Events

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Available for streaming on Sparq through April 28, MMFF invites you to watch the film and join for a livestream Q&A with Sky Hopinka together with Jacqueline Urla and Laura McGough, which will take place Wednesday, March 9 at 7:30pm on Facebook and YouTube.

Małni – Towards the ocean, Towards the Shore the debut feature film by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier as they wander through nature and the spirit world, contemplating their afterlife, rebirth, and death. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, this experimental documentary offers a poetic inquiry into the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest. Hopinka’s signature lush visual imagery and captivating sound design combine to create a portrait of the natural world and its cycles of life and death. (2020, Sky Hopinka, USA, 82 min, in English and Chinuk Wawa w/ English subtitles)

Click here to watch the film.

Click either platform to livestream the Q&A: Facebook or YouTube.

L’Atelier MTK is an artisan cinematographic laboratory  founded in 1992 by an group of filmmakers.  It is equipped to work with 16mm black and white and color film stock, offering both an introduction to and an education in lab techniques in order to provide filmmakers with the necessary independence to make their own films. The lab should be considered like a playground – like a phase with creative potential, to be questioned at will, without any previously established preoccupations.

Founded in 1994, the Five College Student Film and Video Festival is an annual event featuring original films and videos by Five College students. Sponsored by the Five College Film Council and evaluated by a jury of students and faculty members from each campus, the festival annually features selected works and gives out awards. Amherst College's own Grace Cates and Anniyah Rawlins will be on the 2022 Judges' Panel!

The festival will be held virtually on the weekend of March 26th and 27th. 

Visit the Five College Film Festival Web Page for more information

If you have any questions please feel free to email 5collegefilmfestival@gmail.com or contact the Student Director Amparo Saubidet at asaubidet@smith.edu. 

The 5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference is designed to build community among students studying film and media on each of the five campuses, to give our most engaged students an opportunity to hone their presentation skills, and to allow them to  share insights from their work with a wider audience. Participants will each give a 15-minute  presentation as part of a panel with 2-3 fellow students working on related themes. Coordinated in 2022 by Professors Josh Guilford of Amherst College and Jen Malkowski of Smith College. 

A link to program and registration can be found here: program

A link to registration can be found here: registration

Friday, March 4th, from 11AM-3:15PM on Zoom. Each of the nine graduating seniors in Film and Media Studies will present fifteen-minute talks showcasing their films and research.

The FAMS Program presents three panel presentations showcasing the creative and critical work of FAMS Seniors. Friends, family, majors, premajors: all are welcome! FAMS majors: we hope you will come support our graduating seniors! Prospective majors: we invite you to stay after to chat with FAMS professors and current majors about the program, major & events.

A program of panels and speakers can be found: here.

The zoom link to attend the event can be found: here.