Motion Pictures

Salvation Army, the rapturous debut feature from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa will premiere at the Cosford Cinema on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m. followed with a special  Q&A with the filmmaker and scholars. The film offers a charged, semi-autobiographical tale about a young graduate who must navigate the sexual, racial, and political intrigue surrounding his arrival in Geneva. Inspired by his own autobiographical novel, Taïa's Salvation Army is a story of coming of age, folding and unfolding with love, pain, desire, and violence. This film is structured in a diptych: [...]

By Alysha Kahn, Journalism senior First year graduate student Shareen Dookie said it was the “most interesting” Spring Break she had ever had. She and 14 of her classmates spent eight days in Guatemala shooting short documentaries about local health and social issues. “Learning about another culture, meeting new people, and seeing a different way of life in only one week can be overwhelming, but this experience was more fun and interesting than anything I've ever done on Spring Break,” said Dookie. The study abroad program is part of the [...]

David Frankel, a producer, director and screenwriter of hit movies and television shows including The Devil Wears Prada, Band of Brothers, Marley & Me, Hope Springs and Sex and the City, will work with School of Communication students on an upcoming HIV outreach project. Alex Moreno, director of P2P HIV/AIDS Adolescent Outreach & Education at Miller School of Medicine, announced Thursday that Frankel will direct a student-written and produced short narrative film about women at-risk for HIV. Frankel, who won an Oscar for his short film Dear Diary, also discussed his [...]