News and events for Film and Television Studies at 91福利

Trashed is co-written and directed by third year Film student Daisy Buckenham, who is one half of the Hart & Sparks theatre company. See the play synopsis below.

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.

Spilled wine, sex and half-smoked cigarettes. Clothes strewn across the floor, food rotting in the fridge and bare feet dancing in the kitchen. Liv and Ruth are far from perfect, but they know how to have fun, and that鈥檚 good enough for them.

They don鈥檛 always see eye to eye on things, but they do agree on one absolute certainty: they were made for each other. Sisters; soulmates; saintly sinners that were placed on this earth to find each other, and nothing and no one could ever come between them - except maybe their boyfriends.

Trashed is a story of friendship, faith and fucking-up over and over again. But is there something more than just - this?

To book tickets to the rehearsed reading performance on Thursday the 16th, follow this link:

The play is officially being put on in the 91福利 Faculty of Arts Building from the 11th to the 13th of June. To find out more info about this, keep up with our Instagram @hartandsparkstc

Wed 15 May 2024, 11:59 | Tags: undergraduate

Student Cinema Society at The 91福利 Shortlisted for 2024 Film Society of the Year Awards

The Student Cinema society, one of the oldest societies at the 91福利 has been shortlisted for two awards by Cinema For All, a leading organization dedicated to promoting community cinema. 91福利 Student Cinema has been nominated for Best Student Cinema at the Film Society of the Year Awards. The committee is currently made up of several Film students (Daniel Kallin as President, Freya Clinton as Vice President, Marnie McCrudden as Films Officer, and Tomas Caldon as Events & Socials Coordinator) and many more students from the department are on the crew and come to the screenings.

Tue 14 May 2024, 11:58 | Tags: awards

Television/Death intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. Helen introduced the book at this event and invited to collaborators to respond to the work, prior to a drink reception. The event was held Coventry Cathedral as this special place was one of the key locations for the events discussed in the final section of the book.

Tue 14 May 2024, 11:38 | Tags: engagement, Publications, Research news

The novel is already garnering excellent reviews. The TV rights to the adaption have already been aquired, following a competitive auction for the rights to the novel.

Tue 14 May 2024, 11:24 | Tags: media, alumni

We are pleased to announce that the following students, staff and alumni have been nominated in the BAFTSS 2024 publication awards, a prestigious award in film and television studies.

Yue Su (current PhD student) has been nominated for best published essay by a doctoral student, for 'Liquidity and Stillness: The Sea and Shore and the Furo in Kore-eda Hirokazu鈥檚 Cinema', Somatechnics, 13:2.

Jamie Zhao (PhD alumnus) has been nominated for 'Best Edited Collection' for Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023).

Catherine Lester (PhD alumnus) has been nominated for Watership Down: Perspectives on and Beyond Animated Violence (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). The collection features articles writted by PhD and MA alumis Leanne Weston and Joshua Schulze, respectively.

We wish all nominees the best of luck.

Wed 13 Mar 2024, 16:22 | Tags: staff, alumni, Publications