Film Festivals

Boehm Awarded Grant to Develop “Our Knotted Gun” Documentary

July 22, 2024

RCS Spanish Professor Scott Boehm and Peter Johnston (Film Studies), were awarded a Large-scale Development Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) grant to film the new feature-length documentary Our Knotted…

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Prof. Safoi Babana-Hampton Releases Film Trailer

June 22, 2024

Safoi Babana-Hampton, Professor of French at RCS, recently released the official trailer of her HARP Large-Scale Development grant-funded documentary feature "Chœurs atlantiques" (Tales from the Atlantic Beyond). Public release of the…

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20th Annual Italian Film Festival Returns to MSU

April 9, 2024

In April, the Italian Film Festival USA --now in its 20th year-- made MSU's East Lansing campus one of the successful stops in its nationwide tour. The Festival USA (link:…

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Film Festival Shines Spotlight on Latinx Culture and Global Issues

February 18, 2024

The MSU Latinx Film Festival (LxFF) is returning this year after a four-year pandemic-induced hiatus. Scheduled for Feb. 15-18 at several different venues across the Michigan State University campus and in the Lansing and East Lansing communities, the 2024 festival will continue its tradition of screening ground-breaking independent cinema from Latin America, Spain, and the United States while shining a cinematic light on various social issues.

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Second Successful French-Language Film Festival

January 10, 2024

From Monday November 6 to Friday November 10, 2023, RCS' second French-Language Film Festival --newly renamed for the late, beloved Prof. Anna Norris-- drew over 150 enthusiastic viewers to screenings…

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Italian Film Festival Returns to MSU after Three Years Online

April 11, 2023

After three years of online-only programming, the Italian Film Festival is making its in-person return to the MSU campus. The Italian Film Festival USA (link: https://italianfilmfests.org/detroit.html) is organized by a…

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MSU Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival Set for Select Dates April 3-13

March 28, 2023

The MSU Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival, which will bring six contemporary and classic French films to Michigan State University’s campus, will be held on select dates from April 3…

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Professors Receive Grant to Bring French Film Festival to Campus

February 1, 2023

Assistant Professors Elizabeth Tuttle and Jena Whitaker in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University received the Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival grant, which will help…

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Latinx Film Festival Receives Excellence in Diversity Award

March 22, 2021

The MSU Latinx Film Festival (LxFF), founded in 2017 by Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish, along with four graduate students in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies, has…