Department of Communication, Media and Film - University of Calgary

Please join CMF’s Dr. Lee Carruthers this Thursday, October 2 at 7pm at Globe Cinema for the launch of Final Frames, her thought‑provoking new film series presented with Calgary Cinematheque.
The opening night screening features Faces Places (Visages Villages, Agnès Varda & JR, France 2017), introduced by Lee.
✨ Tickets and full program details: calgarycinema.org/tickets
🎬 All are welcome!

CMF is happy to host The Cinema of Architechtural Estrangement this Thursday August 7th! Admission sis free and open to the public.

Exciting news! Congratulations to CMF graduate student Menna Elzairy on advancing to the 2025 3MT finals! We're incredibly proud of her achievement and can't wait to cheer her on in the finals. Way to go, Menna! 🎉👏

Congratulations to Menna Elzairy, a graduate student in the Department of Communication, Media and Film - University of Calgary, on being named a finalist in the 2025 UCalgary Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition for her presentation, "Representing Success? Postfeminist Gendered Religious Identities on Reality TV."

Cheer Menna on as she competes in the 3MT Finals on Thursday, April 10, alongside nine other outstanding finalists!

Learn more about the 2025 UCalgary 3MT finalists: bit.ly/44hIaAg

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The Department of Communication, Media and Film is delighted to announce that this year’s filmmaker in residence is Jennifer Baichwal! Jennifer will be teaching a five-day block week course on documentary cinema. This is a rare opportunity to learn about documentary theory and the film industry, and to get hands-on training from one of Canada’s premiere filmmakers. The course runs from May 1-2, and 5-7, and enrollment is now open. Prerequisites: 3 units from Film 321, 331 or 333.

📣 2025 RACE IN FILM & MEDIA LECTURE 📣

Join us for our featured speaker, Dr. Kristen Warner, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University!

In this talk, Warner will take us through a journey of listening and watching, mapping and exploring the work that goes into building representational experiences for black and brown viewers through uses of onscreen soundscapes and visuals.

Dr. Warner is a leading scholar of black contemporary media industries whose groundbreaking work examines race and casting practices, reality television, and celebrity showrunners. Her book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting (Routledge, 2015) and widely acclaimed essay "In the Time of Plastic Representation" (Film Quarterly, 2017) are essential readings for scholars of race, media, performance, and the entertainment industry.

🗓️ March 13, 2025
⏰ 3:30-5:30pm
📍 EDC 179

Organized by the Department of Communication, Media and Film.

2025 Race in Film & Media Lecture - With Dr. Kristen Warner In this talk, Warner will take us through a journey of listening and watching, mapping and exploring the work that goes into building representatio...

CMF's own Dr. Lee Carruthers is giving a public talk "Projecting a Final Frame: Late and Last Works of Cinema," as part of her Fellowship at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

March 4, 7:00 p.m. - Register at the link!

Projecting a Final Frame: Late and Last Works of Cinema What is distinctive about final works and what ideas about "the last" do we project onto the final films that a director gets to make?

Join us for the 2025 Race in Media & Film Lecture with Dr. Kristen Warner, Cornell University will be taking place on March 13th, 2025 from 3:30pm - 5:30pm in EDC 179.

Join Dr. Katherine Lawless for a talk that traces the evolution of ‘soil communication’ through four overlapping yet analytically distinct frameworks – About, With, Through, Within – to map the increasingly intricate role of soil in social-ecological knowledge systems. Tracing this complex evolution underscores the conceptual move from soil-as-a-static-substrate toward recognizing it as a dynamic, communicative entity integral to transdisciplinary inquiry, policy, and adaptive management strategies in an era of climatic and ecological volatility.

When: Thursday, January 16th, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Where: Social Sciences, Room 217

*This is a public event organized by the Department of Communication, Media and Film's Connection Speaker Series

CMF Faculty Member, Dr Matthew Croombs will be giving a lecture titled, “Cinematic Solidarity and the Global Imagination”, on November 11 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See the link for further details.

CSS Lecture: "Cinematic Solidarity and the Global Imagination" We invite you to join the Critical Speakers Series in welcoming Professor Matthew Croombs for his lecture “Cinematic Solidarity and the Global Imaginary.” The talk will take place on Monday, November 11th from 3–4:30 p.m. in Donovan Lounge and will be followed by a dinner with graduate student...