NC State Film Department

Film Studies Lab

The Film Studies Lab is located in Tompkins G116. For the spring 2008 semester Sowmya Bharadwaj will be working as our lab assistant on Tuesdays from 11-3 and on Wednesdays from 3-7. Please email Sowmya or call during lab hours (515-9420) if you would like to make an appointment to view a film or to use lab equipment.

Facilities in the lab

Students can view the department’s collection of DVDs, VHS tapes, and 16mm films at the film lab. We have laptops students may use to take notes during these screenings, as well as video cameras available for check-out. We also have Final Cut Pro on our Macs in the lab for students editing video projects.

Titles currently in our collection:

DVDs

VHS Tapes

16mm films

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Professional Organizations

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Devoted to the academic study of film and other visual media. Annual conference information, as well as links to Cinema Journal, can be found on this website.
www.cmstudies.org

Screensite
ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.

But everyone is welcome!

A useful resource for locating undergraduate and graduate programs in film as well as jobs in the industry.
www.screensite.org

American Film Institute
www.afi.com

British Film Institute
www.bfi.org.uk

Research sites

The Internet Movie Database
Great place to start if you want the production information (actors, director, producer) for over 100,000 films made in the United States and around the world. Some entries include links to reviews.
www.imdb.com

Film and Television Studies Gateway
A nonprofit organization called Academic Info sponsors this site, so there are no ads! It offers links to sites on film theory, film history, women and film, and international film. www.academicinfo.net/film.html

American Museum of the Moving Image
Dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and to examining their impact on culture and society.
www.ammi.org /site/site.asp

National Film Preservation Foundation
Working with archives and others who appreciate film, the NFPF supports preservation activities nationwide that ensure the physical survival of film and improve access to film for study, education and exhibition.
www.filmpreservation.org

Black Film Center/Archive
The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.
www.indiana.edu/~bfca/websites.html

Library of Congress Motion Picture and
Television Reading Room
www.lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic

PopcornQ
Database and information source for gay and lesbian film culture.
www.popcornq.com

Cinenet
Resources on Spanish and International cinema.
www.cdmedia.es/cinenet.htm

George Eastman House
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/

Margaret Herrick Library, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
http://www.oscars.org/mhl/

Festivals

Telluride Film Festival

Student Symposium

Student Symposium Application Information

MA English--Film Studies student Robert Phillips went to Telluride in 2007: "The Telluride Film Festival was a life-altering experience. I saw films that will be on everyone's must-see list this year. It was not uncommon to walk past actors like Laura Linney, Sean Penn, Marsha Gay Harden, Jennifer Jason Leigh, or Daniel Day-Lewis. In the student symposium sessions, following the screenings, students were given the opportunity to speak directly with filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Tom Shadyac, Sarah Gavron, Todd Haynes, Marjane Satrapi, Peter Sellars, Shyam Benegal, Ken Burns, and Cristian Mungui. To be guided through the festival by the likes of NPR's Howie Movshowitz and UC Berkeley Professor Linda Williams was an experience that is difficult to express in words. Any student, whether undergraduate or graduate, who is interested in film should make every effort to attend the Telluride Film Festival. The way you think and feel about movies will be forever altered by the experience."