The student-led Reel Talk blog is back up and running with an editorial post on seasonal horror films. Read that and so much more below: reeltalk0.movie.blog/2025/11/19/s...

Earlier this month, Deadline reported that Warwick FTV alumni, Adam Tindall, made the 2025 Britlist, an annual list which promotes top unproduced projects from up-and-coming UK talent. He made the list for his project, ‘Maternal’. Congratulations, Adam!

The second episode of Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong’s podcast, Dino’s Top Ten, is out now and can be listened to below: youtu.be/MMuAAzvdzQo

Warwick FTV finalist, Danielle Russell, won the Best Experimental Film award at Belfast Cinemagic festival. Congratulations, Danielle!

Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce ‘DINO’S TOP TEN’, a ten-podcast series about legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis. Episodes will be released weekly each Monday. The first one can be listened to now at the following link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=t17o...

Next week (Week 6), we will be welcoming Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA) to the department for his visiting lecture, ‘Criticism & Self-Reflexivity in the Video Essay’. All are welcome.

Jose Arroyo attended the Film Noir fest in Western-Super-Mare over the weekend and has written up a report for his blog. Read here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...

On Wednesday Week 5 we welcome Ma Ran from Nagoya University to give a paper entitled 'Towards Techno-Transnationalism: Realigning Sino-Japanese Co-produced Documentaries in the Long 1980s'. This will take place at 4.30pm on Weds Nov 5th, in the FAB Cinema (FAB 0.21). All are welcome.

ust in time for Halloween, a seasonal podcast conversation between one of our finalists and one of our PhD students. Listen at the following link: open.spotify.com/episode/6GJE... 🎃

Film and Television studies would like to congratulate Jason Potel on the successful completion of his PhD!

Warwick FTV finalist Danielle Russell, has had recent success with a film she made while on year abroad. It has been shown at several festivals and an award. She is currently part of our Film Production module, continuing her practical filmmaking here at Warwick.

Stephen Gundle with Michela Zegna (Cineteca di Bologna) and Barbara Corsi (research fellow, AHRC project Women in Italian Film Production) at the opening of the project exhibition at the Festival of Women and Cinema, Florence 22 October.

The first FTV Research Seminar of the Autumn term will take place on Weds of Week 3 (Oct 22) at 4.30pm in the FAB cinema. We will be joined by Dr. Veena Hariharan, who will give a paper entitled 'Multispecies Life, Postcolonial Cities'. All are welcome and the talk will be followed by a Q&A.

What does a Film Programmer do? José Arroyo talks to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to find out: notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/j...

Ilia Ryzhenko has been awarded the MeCCSA prize for Doctoral Research of the Year, for his thesis ‘Theatricality and Time in Narrative Cinema’. Congratulations Ilia!

The Warwick Arts Centre is running the, ‘Big Screen, Bigger Emotions,’ part of the BFI Melodrama season, from October through to December. We are asking former and current staff and students to share their thoughts on seeing Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and your memories of seeing it at Warwick.

Michele Aaron appears on the ‘Death’ episode of Ellen E Jones’ and Mark Kermode’s Screenshot programme for Radio 4. It will be broadcast live tomorrow at 11:00 or you can hear it on BBC Sounds now. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We loved meeting all our visitors for Open Day. Huge thanks to our BAFTA-winning guest Sonya Khan for joining us, to our brilliant staff and our student ambassadors, Danni, Hannah, Lily, James, Alice and Katie! 🎬

Today we welcomed our new first-year students with a scavenger hunt around campus. For bonus points, they were asked to recreate some famous film moments or posters. Can you guess what they are?

Ritika Kaushik & Sean Batton co-curate the 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India' program for the L.A. Academy Museum, exploring Indian history and its fragmentations through a series of shorts. The event will be held on Oct 23rd at 19:30 PT: www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/...

Warwick’s Film Productjon students provided with “Introduction to Intimacy Coordination workshop” Next week our production students will learn about the important of intimacy coordination on set with Heath Pennington.

To mark the publication of Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill), Cinema Mentiré is hosting a programme of contemporary Latin American short films exploring the four classical elements. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elemental-...

Warwick Film and Television Studies would like to congratulate Hande Cayir on the successful completion of her PhD! 🥳

Warwick Film and Television Studies has been ranked 1st in the Guardian University Guide 2026 for Media and Film Studies with a top overall score of 100 🎓

Tiago de Luca is providing the keynote address tomorrow at the Planetary Screens conference in Belfast. Tiago’s paper is titled, ‘Cinema in the Open World: Environments, Backgrounds, Relationality’. Further info can be found at the link below! planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com

Developed as part of the Cinema and Solidarity research project, funded by @warwickuni.bsky.social, these films explore acts of co-resistance, particularly among students of Palestinian or Jewish heritage. @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social

2025 graduates: please keep in touch! Scan the QR code or follow the link below to join our departmental alumni network and to let us know whether you would like to take part in any future alumni events: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:

The exhibition 'Above and Below the Line: Women's Labour in Italian Cinema' opens this week at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. It is one of several outputs of the AHRC research project 'Women in Italian Film Production' of which Warwick FTV's Stephen Gundle is the principal investigator.

We were delighted to screen the short films made by our finalist students on the Film Production module yesterday afternoon. Congratulations to all the filmmakers, performers, and crew.

Professor Michele Aaron is featured on the BBC website discussing her new film project, which shares the stories of people in the LGBTQ+ community who are facing the end of their lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stephen Gundle's 2013 book Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy has just come out in Italian with the Turin publisher Kaplan. Congratulations, Stephen!

A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...

Professor Karl Schoonover will be giving a talk at CRASSH at Cambridge tomorrow as part of the ‘Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema’ conference. Details below.

Happening today!

Our warmest wishes to former colleague and long-time friend of the Department, Professor Ginette Vincendeau on her retirement. Seen here with Professor Ed Gallafent and Richard Perkins at The BFI yesterday evening.

It was amazing to present my dissertation research on the 1930s schoolgirl movie to the Warwick film department! Well done everyone for their fantastic presentations :)

Statement from Warwick Film and Television Studies in response to the Supreme Court ruling of 16 April 2025 on the definition of woman by biological sex under the Equality Act 2010 and the guidance published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

It was great to see our MA students presenting their dissertation topics yesterday. Here are a selection of photographs from the day. Well done to all!

The next FTV research seminar will take place on the Wednesday of Week 6 at 4:30pm in the FAB cinema. We are delighted to welcome Karen Redrobe, who will be presenting the paper, Death in ‘Undead’. Further details on poster.

An informative video essay by 3rd year student, Jack Hulbert, on how social changes affect a long running franchise such as Batman: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/17/j...

An excellent new video essay by finalist student Jake Diamond on Isolation Horror in I Am Legend: vimeo.com/1084681435

Super delighted about organizing this event, feat. a brilliant line-up of international presenters, from PGRs to Profs! Can't wait to hear all the toxic romance musings, incl. a keynote talk by Prof Mary Harrod @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social See you on June 9 🚩 spottingredflagssymposium.eventbrite.com

A fascinating new video essay by 3rd year student Rowan Abbott on animal affect and subjectivity onscreen: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/15/a...

A superb video essay on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...

The first in a series of video essays students have produced for the Practice of Film Criticism module, a superb one on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear. notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...

Film and Television Studies graduate, Sonya S Khan was part of the brilliant team (as Archive Producer) that just won the Specialist Factual BAFTA for Atomic People (www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...) Congratulations to everyone at Minnow Films! We’re so proud of you, Sonya!

This conversation has now been released in podcast form and can be listened to here: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/05/03/e...

NewRelease: THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE, AND MEANING by James C. Taylor is a detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters. #ReadUP buff.ly/oUzKfxv

The Eavesdropping at the Movies podcast originates in Warwick. Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass, a Warwick FTV graduate, returned to Warwick to discuss podcasting, film reviewing and criticism, the aural in relation to the visual, building an archive, friendship as a mode of production and more.