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SNL’s Heidi Gardner speaks to FMS students (Opens in new window)
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Heidi Gardner joined lecturer Jon Niccum’s Intermediate Screenwriting class for a virtual Q&A session on Feb. 7, where students held up homemade cue cards and even impersonated Lorne Michaels while asking questions about her career and writing process. ...
Prof. Willmott and Hallmark Channel encourage Kansas film tax credit (Opens in new window)
On paper, Kevin Willmott and Hallmark movies are about as different as can be. ...
Prof. Willmott and son unveil 9th Street statue in Junction City following MLK event (Opens in new window)
Some of Junction City’s most famous names took the stage last week for the local Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. ...
KU welcomes Ukrainian scholars following fundraising efforts
LAWRENCE — Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the University of Kansas began working on several initiatives to support academic peers in Ukraine. One such endeavor, led by the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies, sought funding to support graduate students and faculty whose education and...
Performance by Tweesna Rose Mills, FMS graduate student, portrays Indigenous history (Opens in new window)
Tweesna Rose Mills, from the Shoshone-Yakama-Umatilla Nations, spent weeks preparing for her performance at the Spencer Museum of Art. ...
Three Jayhawks invited to attend White House Native American events
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas and the Office of Native American Initiatives is proud to share that three KU students were invited to and attended two prestigious events in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 and 15. ...
Dr. Olga Kyrylova, Visiting Assistant Professor in FMS, participated in Ukrainian Film event for Columbia University in New York (Opens in new window)
Dr Olga Kyrylova, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Film and Media Studies, participated in the events of the Ukrainian program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, in New York: the book launch Mondegreen by Volodymyr Rafeenko (English translation Dr Mark Andryczyk, 2022) 11/16/2022 and the discussion of the screening...
Dr Olga Kyrylova, FMS Visiting Professor, in Chicago for ASEEES Convention (Opens in new window)
Dr Olga Kyrylova, a Visiting Professor at the Film and Media Studies, took part the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) held from 10th to 13th of November 2022 in Chicago. She was invited as a participant of the international roundtable “Ukrainian Formalism...
Chop & Steele documentary by KU alumni gives thanks for strengths (Opens in new window)
Director Ben Steinbauer’s latest, Chop & Steele, is “a feature-length comedy documentary about childhood friends turned professional comedians.” For fans of underground video and weird things like Everything Is Terrible!, the Found Footage Festival and Steinbauer’s previous film, Winnebago Man, keeps alive a treasure trove of forgotten VHS detritus scoured...
Prof. Willmott discusses his William Allen White documentary and the importance of hometown newspapers (Opens in new window)
MATFIELD GREEN — “William Allen White embodies everything great about Kansas,” Kevin Willmott declared. The screening of his documentary, “William Allen White: What’s the Matter with Kansas,” Sunday afternoon at Pioneer Bluffs was part of the Matfield Green Works Summer Hangout series. ...
Nine KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for fall
LAWRENCE — This fall, nine University of Kansas students will receive an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Prof. Mai Awarded an Arts & Humanities Grant for "Telling Our Stories" (Opens in new window)
LAWRENCE — The Achievement & Assessment Institute has announced the recipients of this year’s Arts & Humanities Grant. ...
KU Discoveries recognizes Prof. Kevin Willmott in Faculty Kudos (Opens in new window)
Kansas House honors filmmaker and FMS Prof. Kevin Willmott (Opens in new window)
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas House of Representatives took the time to honor one of the state’s own before wrapping up Monday. ...
KU chancellor announces promotion, tenure for 160 faculty and researchers for fall 2022
LAWRENCE – Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 50 individuals at the University of Kansas and Edwards campuses and 110 individuals at KU Medical Center campuses. ...
Spreading ‘Jayhawk love’: FMS alum creates Baby Jay picture book (Opens in new window)
Lawrence native and 2018 KU graduate Jacob Hood grew up immersed in all things Jayhawk. ...
FMS alum Micah Brown Interviewed on the Jayhawker Podcast (Opens in new window)
When you come to Kansas as a student athlete, you get very familiar being in front of a camera. Interviews and nationally televised games are the norm. It kind of comes with the territory. ...
KPR Presents: "Interior Chinatown" with Professor David Mai (Opens in new window)
Week of April 10, 2022: It's the KPR Presents Book Club! Join us for a conversation about Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, with Polli Kenn of the Lawrence Public Library and David Mai of the University of Kansas Department of Film and Media Studies. Interior Chinatown won the National Book...
‘It gives meaning to your life,’ filmmaker Kevin Willmott says of the work during virtual talk (Opens in new window)
When Kevin Willmott was in fifth grade, a comic book gave him his first lesson in Black history. ...
Oscar winner, Marymount alumnus Kevin Willmott in Salina for free showing of 'The 24th' (Opens in new window)
A familiar face in Kansas filmmaking who has ties to Salina is returning to the city this week for a free screening of his latest film. ...
KU Film and Media Studies Upgrades Its Neve® Genesys Black Console (Opens in new window)
Five years after installing a Neve® Genesys Black G32 console in its Film & Media Studies Department, the University of Kansas has made its desk even more powerful by installing two 8-channel Neve dynamics cards. ...
Kevin Willmott: An activist of small towns and silver screens (Opens in new window)
There are two sides to Kevin Willmott. One writes films, wins Oscars, and works with Hollywood superstars like Spike Lee and John David Washington. The other teaches in a small Kansas town, laughs at his own jokes, and enjoys nothing more than kicking up his feet to the TV. ...
A moment in Lawrence: Former residents of La Yarda and their descendants attend film screening (Opens in new window)
Former residents of La Yarda, the East Lawrence housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers from 1920-51, and many of their descendants attended a screening of a film about the neighborhood Saturday evening. ...
Lawrence filmmaker brings humor to healing with web series ‘Trauma Bonded’ (Opens in new window)
Last summer, Chloe Burns was looking for an outlet. ...
The Stylist Short Cuts Competition – Get to Know Our Winners - Part 1: Connor Sandheinrich (Opens in new window)
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Free State Festival’s first act will feature The 24th, Not So Silent Cinema, and more (Opens in new window)
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KU graduate receives grant for film documenting Latino community in Lawrence (Opens in new window)
La Yarda is a neighborhood that was owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad that provided housing for Mexican families working on the railroad in eastern Lawrence in the 1920s. ...