February 16, 2024
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Sundance documentary project on rap music features UR professor and alum
Alum Sam Widdoes' film including professor Erik Nielson will debut later this month on Paramount Plus.
Fall 2024 Course Offerings
Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature & The Arts
2023-2024
Reimagining Community In Cinema
The University of Richmond 2023-2024 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature and Arts is hosted by the Film Studies interdisciplinary program. “Reimagining Community in Cinema” explores the diverse ways in which community is historically imagined and reimagined in documentary and fiction film from the silent era to the digital age. Through events such as symposia, masterclasses, film screenings and conversations with filmmakers, the festival honors in particular the contributions of historically marginalized communities.
Be Water, My Friend
APRIL 4, 4:30 P.M. | INTERNATIONAL COMMONS
A book talk with Shannon Lee, followed by Q&A and a book-signing reception.
Shannon Lee is the chair of the Bruce Lee Foundation, the CEO and owner of the Bruce Lee Family Companies, and the daughter of the legendary martial artist and cultural icon Bruce Lee. Shannon’s overall mission is to provide access to her father’s wisdom and practices through education and entertainment and be a cause of healing and unity in the world. She is the creator of Camp Bruce Lee and other programs and community initiatives through the Bruce Lee Foundation, focusing on youth mental wellness and community healing through the legacy of mind, body, and spirit teachings of her father Bruce Lee. Shannon also hosts the Bruce Lee Podcast and serves as the executive producer of HBOMax’s Warrior. Her first book, Be Water, My Friend, offers insight into how to use her father’s philosophies toward a more fluid, peaceful, and fulfilling life
Changing Perspectives: Reflections on Contemporary German Film
Zuhurs Töchter (Zuhur’s Daughters) (2021)
APRIL 5, 3-5 P.M. | HUMANITIES COMMONS
Film Screening & Community Conversation.
This documentary follows the experiences of two trans* teenagers from a Syrian refugee family in Germany. Lohan’s and Samar’s journeys to be at home in their bodies and in their new country are complicated by cultural differences, gender expectations, and social pressures. Over a three-year period, the directors gain the trust of the family and the two sisters, and the result is a film that provides an intensely personal, complex, and honest portrait of the family’s interactions as Lohan and Samar transition and assert their place in society.
Film introduction by Kathrin Bower (pronouns: she/her, professor of German studies and film studies). Facilitation of community conversation after the screening by Casey Butler (pronouns: they/them, associate director of LGBTQ+ campus life, Student Center for Equity and Inclusion).
Light refreshments will be provided. Events are free and open to the public.
The Ordinaries (2022)
APRIL 6, 3-5:30 P.M. | Ukrop Auditorium, Robins School of Business
Film Screening & Discussion.
In this extraordinary debut feature, Sophie Linnenbaum constructs a meta-cinematic world where the social hierarchies are determined by a character’s place in the story. The privileged group consists of main characters who live in elegant houses and enjoy the pleasures of light and color, while supporting characters are lower on the social ladder, and outtakes are relegated to the dimly lit black-and-white slums. Linnenbaum uses these power structures of cinematic narrative as an allegory for the forces of prejudice, exclusion, and exploitation in society, while drawing attention to the importance of visibility in shaping and instituting change.
Film introduction by Kathrin Bower, professor of German studies and film studies, and students from FMST/LLC 265 German Cinema, with discussion after the screening.
Light refreshments will be provided. Events are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Events
Faculty Highlights
Ravaux-Kirkpatrick Awarded International Honor for Contributions to the Arts
Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, professor of French and film studies, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture for her contributions in the artistic and literary field. Learn more.
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Jessica Chan Publishes First Book
Dr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. .
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Local Film Festivals
Film buffs can get their fix at a variety of festivals on campus and throughout Richmond.
Feature Stories
February 12, 2024
CAMPUS LIFE
Asian American cinema takes center stage at film fest
Filmmakers and scholars show students the history of Asian American filmmaking and where it’s headed.
January 11, 2023
How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris
Ravynn K. Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of media studies, authored this piece.
Resources
Contact Us
Mailing address:
Film Studies Program
217 Carole Weinstein International Center
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 662 3008
Fax: (804) 289-8313
Program Coordinator: Monika Siebert
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Lynn Hardwicke