“THE GAY CLUB” AND “IN UNDERTOW” SHOW COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE AND HEARTBREAK By Hailey Bullis, Staff Writer For many, movies are a way to explore new worlds and experience different lives. Perhaps more importantly, movies are also a way to parallel…
FAMS screens Oscar-nominated documentary “13th” BY BASMA HUMADI, STAFF WRITER Not a seat in the Johnson Center Cinema was left open. In the back of the room, audience members were left standing just to get a glimpse of the…
Barbara Brophy, Staff Writer Last week, George Mason University’s Film and Media Studies department hosted a screening of Chimpanzee Productions’ 2014 documentary “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.” The event, which included a discussion…
The JC Cinema comfortably seats 294 students. The large crowd for the screening and public discussion of “Dear White People,” occupied every available inch of the room in the theater. “As a black student, I was interested in seeing this…
Written by Blanca Acevedo A recent Mason alum has entered the field with a current job position as an assistant editor for Ventana Productions in Washington, D.C., after graduating with a BA in Film and Video Studies from Mason this…
Written by Fourth Estate Lifestyle Reporter Meghann Patterson As part of a week dedicated to women in film, Film and Video Studies hosted a panel that was available for all Mason students to attend. A historical comparison of women’s employment…