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Julie Lobalzo Wright and Ritika Kaushik to supervise a new project under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme with the British Film Institute

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:40:00 GMT

Read the advertisement for the project beginning in October 2026-Interrogating British South Asian Culture in Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s- here.

FTV alumni take part in online jobs/employability event

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:33:37 GMT

On Friday 6 March, Julie Lobalzo Wright (Director of Student Experience and Progression) hosted four alumni for an illuminating online event for current Film and Television Studies students.

Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce 'DINO'S TOP TEN: TEN PODCASTS ABOUT LEGENDARY FILM PRODUCER DINO DE LAURENTIIS'

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:53:37 GMT

Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce 'DINO'S TOP TEN', a ten-episode podcast series about legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis.

��TV's Film Production students provided with “Introduction to Intimacy Coordination” workshop

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:44:04 GMT

Next week our Film Production students will learn about the importance of Intimacy Coordination on set with expert Heath Pennington.

Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton co-curate upcoming 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India' program for Academy Museum, L.A.

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:11:46 GMT

Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton have co-curated an upcoming film program for the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. Titled, 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India', this series explores the history of India and its fragmentations through a series of experimental shorts from the nation. The event will be held on October 23rd at 7:30 PT. 

Cinema Mentiré book launch event for Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill)

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:25:53 GMT

��TV FTV's Tiago De Luca is the co-editor of the new collection, Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill). Cinema Mentiré is hosting a programme of contemporary Latin American short films exploring the four classical elements on Friday 6th October.

Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elemental-world-cinema-book-launch-screening-tickets-1682526113899

Stephen Gundle's exhibition 'Above and Below the Line: Women's Labour in Italian Cinema' opens this week at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:24:03 GMT

The exhibition 'Above and Below the Line: Women's Labour in Italian Cinema' opens this week at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. It is one of several outputs of the AHRC research project 'Women in Italian Film Production' of which ��TV FTV's Stephen Gundle is the principal investigator. Project partner the Cineteca di Bologna is hosting a digital archive containing the papers of three key women, 38 oral interviews and other resources that has been produced by the project. The archive will be inaugurated at the Cinema Ritrovato this week. .

Stephen Gundle's 2013 book Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy has just come out in Italian with the Turin publisher Kaplan.

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:33:14 GMT

FTV's Hande Çayır led filmmaking workshops at SOAS, University of London's Brunei Gallery

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:40:08 GMT

Hande Çayır designed and facilitated audio-visual storytelling workshops as part of the UKRI-funded ‘Archive of Solidarity: Precarity, Creativity and Shared Future-Making Across Closed Borders’ project, held from 22 April to 9 May 2025 at SOAS University of London’s Brunei Gallery.

Click here for more information: /fac/cross_fac/ias/researchandnetworks/iasnews/ias_early_career_researcher_hande_ayr_facilitated_audio-visual_storytelling_workshops_1

Karen Redrobe (University of Pennsylvania) to Speak at ��TV FTV next week

Wed, 21 May 2025 12:54:39 GMT