Projects

Students in MACS 323: Cinematography & Sound Design, taught by media and cinema studies lecturer Victor Font, created this video for Thanksgiving. In it, they imagine what series of events led up to the famous Normal Rockwell painting Freedom from Want (see below).  Through making this video,… Read More

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2019 Illinifest student film festival, which is produced, programmed, and curated by University of Illinois students. The fest welcomes student productions in any form: Short narratives, documentary, experimental films, video essays, and animation are all… Read More

The College of Media's 2019 Ebert Fellows (announced here)—Eunice Alpasan (journalism), Pari Apostolakos (journalism), and Curtis Cook (media and cinema studies major)—convened at Chicago Public Radio and WBEZ-FM in January to record a podcast review of Alfonso Cuaron's film Roma. They worked with … Read More

We present the College of Media's year-end video, created by students in our media and cinema studies class "Media Production I," taught by Victor Font.  To create this video, we enlisted the help of about 300 students, faculty, staff, and friends to join us for #MediaOnTheQuad as extras in the… Read More