Welcome to Film & Screen Media
Film and Screen Media at University College Cork is a vibrant community of lecturers, researchers and graduate students. Led by internationally recognised experts, and with a thriving visiting speakers and guest practitioners component, our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees explore the history of filmmaking through the study of films from around the world, from the birth of cinema to the age of the Internet.
News and Events
11 Nov 2025
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Double Issue 29–30, Coming to Latin America. Now Available Online.
“Coming to Latin America”, edited by Lawrence Alexander and Javier Pérez-Osorio, engages with non–Latin American filmmakers who have produced work in and about the continent. As the Editors explain, it “interrogates the foreign gaze not because it is more important than that of practitioners from the continent but because, rather than simply reproducing extractive cinematic practices, we believe these works can become a catalyst for new epistemic pathways.”
Read on alphavillejournal.com
05 Nov 2025
CIFF, UCC and IFI present Expanding Perspectives Archives, Access and Creative Reuse Wed 12th @ 10am-18pm
This year’s symposium, Expanding Perspectives: Archives, Access and Creative Reuse, brings together filmmakers, archivists, academics and other film practitioners to explore how amateur films, newsreels, and other overlooked forms capture the minutiae of everyday life, and to ask vital questions about who preserves these stories, who gets access to them, and how they can be reimagined for the future.
Read on corkfilmfest.org
05 Nov 2025
Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?
Opinion: Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time and at the forefront of a transformative period in Irish society
Read on rte.ie
05 Nov 2025
Cork Film Festival 1965: Restored reels capture international stars on Leeside
Introduction and screening of recently restored footage of the Cork International Film Festival 1965 with Ciara Chambers, UCC and Don O’Mahony, CIFF - Wed 12th Nov @10am Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Kane building Basement B10.B
Read on irishexaminer.com
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