On April 14th, 2023, I had the privilege to host a momentous event, the Film and Screen Media Oscar Awards, more commonly referred to as the FOSCARS. Here we saw all the final year films, which we were delighted to watch collectively. These films were a display of the impeccable skills that we had honed over the years, and it was an extraordinary moment to witness all our hard work pay off!

UCC Film and Screen Media is delighted to announce a special screening at the Triskel Arts Centre of MA films produced in collaboration with our 2023 UCC/Arts Council Film Artist in Residence, Maximilian Le Cain. As part of his residency here at UCC, Max mentored our six MA in Film and Screen Media students–Avleen Anand, Dervla Baker, Elena Binnig, Lawrence Cook, Aoibh Foynes, and Daniel Heapy–and the result is “Cinespectres”,  a showcase of distinctive and personal films that capture the creativity, wit and imagination of our talented MAs! 

Actor Jared Harris visits University College Cork (UCC) to meet students from the Department of Film and Screen Media and view the archives of his late father, Richard Harris, which were donated to the university last year.

Jared, who is visiting UCC and Cork with his wife Allegra, starred in number of roles in film and television including Mad Men and Chernobyl. While at UCC Jared and Allegra will meet staff in UCC Library, have a Q&A with students in the Department of Film and Screen Media and be interviewed by students at UCC’s 93.8FM radio station.

The 2023 Puttnam Scholars have commenced pre-production on their Scholarship film after a “writing room” session with Oscar-winning film producer and digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam in Hayfield Manor last week.

Imelda O’Reilly is an interdisciplinary artist and an award winning Irish filmmaker. She has lived on four continents Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Her work explores themes of Identity, memory, trauma and exile. Her feature screenplay titled We’re the Kids in America was an Official Selection for L’Atélier Cinéfondation Cannes International Film Festival in 2018.

Six UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar. The Puttnam Scholarship programme offers UCC students from any discipline the opportunity to work with and learn from digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam, Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express. This year’s scholars are final-year and postgraduate students in the fields of Nursing, Law, English and Film & Screen Media.

The Looking Glass Anthology

A reflective collection of audiovisual works

The Department of Film and Screen Media is delighted to present David Martin-Jones Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. His specialism is film-philosophy, and his research engages with world cinemas. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Deleuze and World Cinemas (shortlisted for the BAFTSS Annual Book Award), Cinema Against Doublethink, and Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7 (shortlisted for the MeCCSA Best Monograph Award).

The Department of Film and Screen Media presents a Research Seminar with Mariana Liz - Class and Gender in Small Nation Cinemas: the case of Portugal and Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen on Tuesday 21st of February at 4pm in the FSM Auditoriun - Kane Building Basement Room B10.B.

This talk addresses the ubiquitous global presence and popularity of crime cinema by analysing its capacity to express local, national or regional identities while at the same time being able to facilitate transborder cultural exchanges. Transculturalism is strongly embedded in this genre through both its ability to incorporate and process transnational influences (in terms of style, subgenres, and social criticism) and through its modes of production, cultural circulation, and critical understanding. Starting from an overview of European Crime cinema as a vehicle to address European transcultural identities, the talk will look at influences and exchanges between contemporary European and Asian productions to focus eventually on an analysis of Johnnie To's Vengeance (復仇, Hong Kong/France, 2009).