Cinema and screen studies

SUNY Oswego launched the new student-run Hewitt Film Festival this spring in the recently renovated Hewitt Hall, now home to the College of Communication, Media and the Arts. The festival showcased emerging filmmakers while celebrating the transformation of the historic...

Salmon Celebration Day activities, titled "Art, Science and Culture of Lake Ontario," will run from 3 to 6:30 pm on Wednesday, March 25, in the Hewitt Hall Ballroom with renowned Haudenosaunee storyteller Perry Ground and a variety of related hands-on...

SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies professor Tiffany Deater has created a three-video installation observing the natural world, appearing at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies professor Josh Adams shares his expert insights on how the Academy selects Best Picture nominees, the nomination process and this year's top contenders at the Oscars.

On Tuesday Dec. 3, SUNY Oswego’s Cinema and Screen Studies Department will host a screening of their finished 16 mm short films on local historic treasure Fort Ontario in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132).

Oswego faculty members Amy Shore and Roberta (Rosie) Hurtado are editors of a new online feminist journal including scholars from around Upstate New York and beyond.

SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies faculty members Tiffany Deater and Jarrod Hagadorn announced the release of the documentary they produced as part of a select group that will take part in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities...

Vote Oswego, a university-coordinated student-run project that helps members of the community make their impact in elections, is hosting a film festival and other awareness events to get students prepared for the 2024 elections.

The renovations of iconic Hewitt Hall, with an expected completion date of August 2025, will bring to life the values of SUNY Oswego’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts: innovation, inspiration and interdisciplinary collaboration. This $80 million project converts...

Senses of Cinema, a major international film journal and the oldest online film journal in the world, has just published “Change Not Mummified” by Bennet Schaber and Tiffany Deater, faculty members in the Department of Cinema and Screen Studies.

Cinema and screen studies faculty members Tiffany Deater and Jarrod Hagadorn are among a select group that will take part in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)’s Stewardship of Public Lands program, an initiative of AASCU’s American...

Nicholas Campbell, a SUNY Oswego senior who majors in cinema and screen studies and creative writing, won two Global Film Festival Awards, Best Student Filmmaker and Best Horror Short, for his short film “Replaced.”

SUNY Oswego’s annual celebration of scholarly and creative activities, Quest, will showcase some new features showcasing student creativity in areas including music, poetry and art, filmmaking, theatre and more on April 17.

A film collaboration between students, faculty and community members will debut at SUNY Oswego at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132). “Sterling Nature Center: A Living History” explores the creation of a...

Connor Censak, a SUNY Oswego senior majoring in cinema and screen studies, is among the recipients of the 2023 Lake Placid Film Festival Student Summit Scholarship.

Students from all over New York will show off their skills in the upcoming SUNYWide Film Festival, hosted virtually by SUNY Oswego from April 7 to April 10.

Farha Barno Ternikar, an associate professor from LeMoyne College, will discuss “Haute Hijab: Brown Girls, Muslim Women and Instagram” at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Marano Campus Center auditorium, Room 132.

Alexander Griffin knew from early in life he wanted to work in entertainment in some way, but SUNY Oswego showed the way to channel his passion as a cinema and screen studies major.

Three of the four winners of the CNY Short Film Competition are SUNY Oswego graduates who will receive generous support to bring their film ideas to life.

Three SUNY Oswego student productions continued to bolster the college’s national reputation by earning Broadcast Education Association awards.

For three SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies students, participating in the select PitchNY program in November was the next step in their dreams of telling stories through film.

This fall’s Living Writers Series at SUNY Oswego will feature speakers who craft poetry, novels, graphic novels, short stories, songs, plays and screenplays -- and even exposed the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

"Only 982," a 14-minute documentary, will screen at 4 p.m. Friday (Nov. 16) in Marano Campus Center auditorium. A question-and-answer session with filmmakers Mic-Anthony Hay, a senior in journalism, and English and creative writing faculty member Juliet Aires Giglio will...

SUNY Oswego faculty member Juliet Aires Giglio and her husband, Keith Giglio, teamed as screenwriters for the comedy romance "A Very Nutty Christmas," premiering at 8 p.m. Nov. 30 on the Lifetime network and starring Melissa Joan Hart and Barry...

A spirit of collaboration led to SUNY Oswego’s creative writing, chemistry and cinema and screen studies programs working together to create a series of short films on laboratory safety.

A SUNY Oswego faculty-student team of Juliet Aires Giglio and Mic-Anthony Hay will produce a documentary to preserve the memories of cousins who were 7 years old when they had to leave Eastern Europe for Fort Ontario's Safe Haven to...

Students and faculty from SUNY Oswego’s "Children’s Literature and Film" and "Storytelling" classes will use their respective arts in a free presentation of children’s stories at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Oswego Public Library.

SUNY Oswego faculty member Francisco Suárez says an intercultural student documentary project will dovetail with a Tuesday, April 17, presentation on campus by noted documentary filmmaker Rita Coburn.

The Acting Company recently named SUNY Oswego senior Michael Jaquez a winner in a national playwriting competition that spun off two plays coming to Waterman Theatre in March, "Julius Caesar" and "X."

Starting Sunday, Nov. 29, WCNY-TV public television in Syracuse will air three episodes of a 1960s-style sci-fi horror series titled “Spectral Transmission, ” produced start to finish by SUNY Oswego students of Jacob Dodd in cinema and screen studies.Inspired by...

SUNY Oswego students blending creative writing, illustration, filmmaking, music, design and computer skills have teamed the last two semesters to launch Exist, a multimedia magazine app inspired by the college’s Graphic Flash fiction-and-artwork exhibitions.With the assistance of nearly $10,000 from...