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An overhead look at an audience of students eating pizza and making conversation in rows of chairs.

Students mingle before the 2025 Film Rally.

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A man addresses an audience with a microphone.
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A man addresses an audience with a microphone.

Prof. Bob Hurst, FMS Chair, welcomes students to the 2025 Film Rally

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A man in a chair talks into a microphone.

Michael Coffey talks about his filmmaking experience at the 2025 Film Rally.

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An audience listens from several rows of chairs.

Students listen at the 2025 Film Rally.

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A man listens as a woman asks him a question from chairs on a stage.

Michael Coffey talks to Prof. Laura Kirk about filmmaking at the 2025 Film Rally.

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A man points to a large screen behind him as he speaks at a podium.

Prof. Mai speaks about the character rigs for his animated film, "Önetta" at the 2024 Film Rally

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A man stands by a podium with a large screen of animation sketches above him.

Prof. Cook (KU School of Architecture & Design) talks about animation art at Ghost View Studies during the 2024 Film Rally.

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A man holding a microphone speaks to a line of students while a group looks on next to him.

Prof. Miner answers student questions during the Q&A session of the 2024 Film Rally.

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A woman stands at a podium below a large screen where an indigenous woman dances in a colorful outfit below the title, "Fancy Dance".

Producer Deidre Backs screened her film, "Fancy Dance" for the 2023 FMS Film Rally

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A group of people eat pizza and chat while sitting in several rows of chairs.

Students chat and eat pizza prior to the 2023 FMS Film Rally

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A woman points to a large screen above her where photos of people are displayed while an audience looks on.

Producer Deidre Backs shows photos during her presentation at the 2023 FMS Film Rally

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A man and woman smile and hold microphones onstage.

FMS Prof. Joshua Miner joins Producer Deidre Backs on stage for a Q&A session after screening "Fancy Dance" for the 2023 FMS Film Rally

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A woman's face is displayed on a large screen in front of a seated audience.

Students get a sneak peek of Professor Hurst's "Garden City" documentary on the FMS Soundstage.

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A group of four people sit in chairs on a stage and speak to a standing man next to a microphone in the audience.

Professor Hurst answers a student's question during the Q&A session about his "Garden City" documentary.

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