
Ravynn K. Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of media studies, authored this piece.
The University of Richmond 2023-2024 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature and Arts is hosted by the Film Studies interdisciplinary program. “Reimagining Community in Cinema” explores the diverse ways in which community is historically imagined and reimagined in documentary and fiction film from the silent era to the digital age. Through events such as symposia, masterclasses, film screenings and conversations with filmmakers, the festival honors in particular the contributions of historically marginalized communities.
Sonja Bertucci, filmmaker and assistant professor of languages, literatures, and cultures and the film studies, will screen the first full cut (still in progress) of a feature-length, 78-minute, documentary film entitledIn Search of Time Lost. The film is a meditation on aging, memory, and finitude told through the lens of a centenarian couple based in Los Angeles.
The first full cut was screened on November 14, 2022 in Ukrop Auditorium.
Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, professor of French and film studies, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture for her contributions in the artistic and literary field. Learn more.
View BioDr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. .
View BioFilm buffs can get their fix at a variety of festivals on campus and throughout Richmond.
Mailing address:
Film Studies Program
217 Carole Weinstein International Center
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 662 3008
Fax: (804) 289-8313
Program Coordinator: Monika Siebert