Find out about the current
news and upcoming
events in Cinema and Digital Media, including our faculty
events and exhibitions, awards, film screenings, lectures,
research, study abroad programs and more.
Three recent Department of Cinema and Digital Media majors from
the class of 2025 have launched their own videography and
video production company and have hit the ground
running. David Kouyoumdjian, Jihae Dong, and Ziyun
Zhang formed 175
Productions LLC (AKA. 175 Productions) in March 2025 and have
already built up an impressive list of clients.
The West coast premiere of Professor Julie Wyman’s
documentary The Tallest Dwarf will be part of
the San Francisco International Film Festival with
screenings on April 26 and 27.
The Human Rights Film Festival, a collaboration
of Human Rights Studies, Cinema and Digital Media,
Global Affairs and the College of Letters and Science at UC
Davis, begins with a screening of So Surreal: Behind the
Masks on Jan. 30.
For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional
obligation and a rite of passage. For Professor Fiamma
Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, the protagonist of
Borges’ El Etnógrafo (1969), this rite of
passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s
traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of
visual art.
Filmmakers and professors Glenda
Drew (of Design) and Jesse
Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project
decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American
Country Music titled Open Country.
Recent alumna Sarah Sy (B.A., design and cinema and digital
media, ‘23) has received a scholarship through The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career
Development Program. The six-week summer program covers
development, pitching, marketing, distribution, and more.
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media Lishan Az has been named an
Emerging Artist at The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
in San Francisco for the 2023–24 season. Lishan’s work is
titled Eugene’s Cove, and will be on view December 13,
2023, until March 3, 2024.
