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School of Film and Media Studies

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Film and Media Studies

Handheld film shoot in BFA Film class
Handheld film shoot in BFA Film class
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Immerse yourself in the production and critique of film, media, television, and video art.

Our interdisciplinary programs combine research and hands-on training, as we encourage you to become engaged makers and critical consumers of media.

  • Cinema and Television Studies
  • Media Studies
  • New Media
  • Playwriting and Screenwriting

  • Film BFA

  • Film/Video Production
  • Television Theory and Practice
  • Media Studies
  • Playwriting
  • Screenwriting
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For More Information

fms@purchase.edu
(914) 251-6860
facebook.com/purchasefmstudies

Academic Programs

Cinema and Television Studies

  • Major
  • BA

Film

  • Major
  • BFA

Film/Video Production

  • Minor

Media Studies

  • Major
  • Minor
  • BA

New Media

  • Major
  • BA

Playwriting

  • Minor

Playwriting and Screenwriting

  • Major
  • BA

Screenwriting

  • Minor

Television Theory and Practice

  • Minor

Upcoming Events

Peacebuilding Conference
Oct
18

Peacebuilding Conference

The Art of Peacebuilding: Education, Empathy, and Engagement in Uncertain Times.A gathering to imagine, connect, and practice peace as a shared, lived experience.

9:45am - 4:00pm
Dr. Roxanne's work rethinks the ethics of AI through an anticolonial, eco-cyberfeminist lens.
Oct
20

Workshop: Anticolonial Methods in the Digital Arts

Dr. Tiara Roxanne will host a short workshop that brings together Indigenous Feminist Methodologies as anticolonial mechanisms that can be implemented when working with or using digital technologies.
In this workshop, Tiara will create space for students to share their practices of care and creativity while integrating one or more of the methodologies introduced.  

4:30pm - 6:00pm
One hell of a good story, brilliantly told. -- Roger Ebert
Oct
22

FMS Screening Series presents “Jaws” introduced by Professor Jim Spione

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s terrifying and enormously influential thriller Jaws. The first feature film to be heavily promoted through television advertising and then released to hundreds of theaters simultaneously, Jaws was a smash hit that—for better or worse—created the blueprint for the summer blockbuster release strategy that still dominates Hollywood today.

7:00pm

Latest Stories

Steve Lambert and Roger Nydegger, a team facilitator

Art as Activism: Professor Steve Lambert’s Work Gets Zurich Talking

The 21 x 35-foot interactive sign, Capitalism Works for Me! True/False invites audiences to engage in thoughtful reflection and meaningful debate at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, a festival that celebrates art and culture.

Still image from Acetone Reality

New Media Professors’ “Acetone Reality” Debuts at NY Film Festival

Michael Bell-Smith and Sara Magenheimer’s experimental video premieres at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, Sept. 26–Oct. 13.

Aracelie Aarie Colón

Aracelie Aarie Colón ’25 Receives Filmmaking Grant from National Board of Review

The recent grad received a grant from the National Board of Review for her documentary short, Puff Puff Pass, an intimate look at the Black lives impacted by the legal and cultural history of the now-legal cannabis industry.

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