Upcoming Events
Reunion and Commencement 2025
How to Train Your Dragon Film Screening - May 23, 2025 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Join the College of Film and the Moving Image for a special advance screening of the new live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon, a family friendly epic action adventure, which will be introduced by the film's producer, Adam Siegel '00!
CFILM Breakfast - May 24, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Join CFILM faculty, staff, alumni and graduating seniors for an informal breakfast at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies!
WESeminar: How We Made Your Mother Live Taping - May 24, 2025 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Join Josh Radnor (the “I” in How I Met Your Mother), Craig Thomas ’97 (HIMYM co-creator), and Alek Lev ’97 (podcast producer) at a live recording of their new podcast How We Made Your Mother, along with special guest, the co-creator of HIMYM, Carter Bays ’97. Together, they’ll explore the making of the groundbreaking sitcom (whose characters are Wes grads as well) that ran for 208 episodes on CBS from 2005-2014.
SENIOR THESIS AND CAPSTONE FILM SCREENINGS
May 23, 2025 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. & May 24, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
16mm films
Lizzy Brandt - DINO (5/23 at 10:00 am, 5/24 at 9:00 am)
Florrie Shattock - GOOD GOD! (5/23 at 10:09 am, 5/24 at 9:09 am)
Daniel Glickman - On Tract (5/23 at 10:20 am, 5/24 at 9:20 am)
Digital Fiction
Kyle Reims - Print Journalism (5/23 at 10:32 am, 5/24 at 9:32 am)
Nyahera Santeliz - All Figured Out (5/23 at 10:45 am, 5/24 at 9:45 am)
Junu Lee - The Diner and the Dasher (5/23 at 10:58 am, 5/24 at 9:58 am)
Georgia Reed-Stamm - You First (5/23 at 11:10 am, 5/24 at 10:10 am)
Jangho Yun - A Thousand Cranes (5/23 at 11:23 am, 5/24 at 10:23 am)
Marshall Schulman - SHEEP (5/23 at 11:36 am, 5/24 at 10:36 am)
Lampton Enochs - Prelapsarian (5/23 at 11:49 am, 5/24 at 10:49 am)
Elijah Joshua S. Pajarillaga - The Ceremony of Return (5/23 at 12:02 pm, 5/24 at 11:02 am)
Stanley Ackerman - Johnny, You'll Be Alright (5/23 at 12:15 pm, 5/24 at 11:15 am)
Digital Documentary
Eliza R. Marovitz - Guy in the Mill (5/23 at 12:28 pm, 5/24 at 11:28 am)
Eiley Doyle - Piece by Piece (5/23 at 12:39 pm, 5/24 at 11:39 am)
Romy Beckman - EAGZ (5/23 at 12:51 pm, 5/24 at 11:51 am)
Thibeaux Hirsh - To Make A Champion (5/23 at 1:04 pm, 5/24 at 12:04 pm)
Digital Fiction
Kyla Nana Serwah Danquah - It Takes Two To Tango (5/23 at 1:16 pm, 5/24 at 12:16 pm)
Jasmyne Le - What We Leave Behind (5/23 at 1:29 pm, 5/24 at 12:29 pm)
Jessica Jara-Williams - PUPA (5/23 at 1:41 pm, 5/24 at 12:41 pm)
Jude Gravois - Stage Kiss (5/23 at 1:54 pm, 5/24 at 12:54 pm)
Aidan Zimmermann - How Many Miles (5/23 at 2:07 pm, 5/24 at 1:07 pm)
Natalie Horberg - Dawn’s World (5/23 at 2:19 pm, 5/24 at 1:19 pm)
Victoria Eva Cornejo - mutuals (5/23 at 2:29 pm, 5/24 at 1:29 pm)
Lola Maby - Priests Can't Date (5/23 at 2:42 pm, 5/24 at 1:42 pm)
CAPSTONE FILMS
Isabella Koz - Bathroom Break (5/23 at 2:54 pm, 5/24 at 1:54 pm)
McKenna Blackshire - recollection (5/23 at 3:03 pm, 5/24 at 2:03 pm)
Oliver Sheehan - Crossroad (5/23 at 3:15 pm, 5/24 at 2:15 pm)
Saskia Villaflor Curry - What's Leftover (5/23 at 3:22 pm, 5/24 at 2:22 pm)
Alexander C. Rubenstein - Plain Dreamin' (5/23 at 3:34 pm, 5/24 at 2:24 pm)
Connor Wrubel - Bad Casting (5/23 at 3:49 pm, 5/24 at 2:49 pm)
Tess MacFarlane - What a Witch! (5/23 at 3:58 pm, 5/24 at 2:38 pm)
WRITTEN THESES READING ROOM
May 23, 2025 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. & May 24, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Screenplays
Amelie Boose - SEXY PEOPLE
Kieran Gettel-Gilmartin - A Ram in the Thicket
Philip B. Keith - The Black Muse
Jacob Silberman-Baron - Pump and Dump
Teleplays
Alexei Brusiloff - Varsity Squash
Mika Foguel - Revenge Served Hot
Max Morfoot - In-Between Worlds
Angelina Reddy - Terra Nullius
Nat Wheeler - Agency
History/Theory
Michael Nista - Everything Old is New Again: Digital De-Aging’s Cinematic Effects
Jack Setrakian - Overcoming Denial: Cinema's Role in Depicting the Armenian Genocide
Film Criticism
Soli Gareh - Pier Paolo Pasolini: Between the Poetic and the Political
