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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.

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The Department of Film and Screen Media Annual Film Artists Event – Thur 12th Feb @17.15

    
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Elinor Dolliver (University of Cambridge) “Beyond Folk Horror: New Approaches to Folklore and Horror Cinema” - Mon 16th Feb @1pm

  This seminar explores the meaningful parallels between horror cinema and folklore, looking beyond the popularity of folk horror as a subgenre and a source of theoretical perspectives. While the ‘folk horror revival’ bears important insights into how folklore is valued in popular culture, folk horror engages with a very specific understanding of folklore as ancient, esoteric and rural.
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04 Feb 2026

Eight 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. 
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Dr. Anna Viola Sborgi – Mon 9th Feb @1pm – Women, Resilience, and the Labour of Homemaking in 'Rosie' and 'Herself'

  Part of a broader project on the representation of women’s experience of the global housing crisis, this talk focuses on two Irish narrative films, Rosie (Paddy Breathnach, 2018) and Herself (Phyllida Lloyd, 2020), portraying the often “invisible” configuration of female houselessness, and the ways in which the process of homemaking is crucially sustained by the two main characters’ resilience and labour.
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UCC’s Department of Film and Screen Media - Kane Building B10.B

UCC’s Puttnam Scholar Sarah Dunne & Elena Binning at the Learn on Screen Awards UCC’s Puttnam Scholar Sarah Dunne & Elena Binning at the Learn on Screen Awards

UCC Film Writers is a collective of university students in Film and Screen Media, who are committed to delivering original, thought-provoking work on contemporary cinema.

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The Fastnet Short Film Festival, in Schull, West Cork, continues to attract the cream of filmmakers from Ireland and beyond.

Dr Gwenda Young

Lecturer in Film Studies, Film and Screen Media, UCC

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Film and Screen Media at UCC is excellently placed to wear the AATCe badge, and assist in the transformation of students into digital leaders in a digital age.

Niamh McCartney

Education Account Manager | Apple Distribution International, Education

Any film studies course worth its salt needs to examine the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.

Lord David Puttnam

Adjunct Professor of Film and Screen Media

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The aim of this initiative is to spread the "European idea" and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students.

European University Film Awards

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Testimonials

I enjoyed my time studying Film & Screen Media at UCC immensely and the MA in particular gave me the chance to research and write about the subjects.

Ellen Scally

Film and Screen Media
Masters Graduate

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I really enjoyed the MA, learning all about the history of cinema. It took me into research areas I never thought I would go in to before.

Nicole Clinton

Film and Screen Media
Masters Graduate

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The BA in Film and Screen Media gave me the core knowledge of both the practical and theoretical elements which are essential in the industry.

Kathleen Horan

Film and Screen Media
BA Graduate

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I'd been looking for a Masters in Film that was theoretical and that would also be okay with my practical knowledge in film-making.

Meera Sankar

Film and Screen Media
Masters Graduate

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