Film and Media Studies faculty and students travelled to the Sundance Film Festival during Intersession 2012.
Actor James Franco attended a screening and discussion of his film The Broken Tower about the life and work of the poet Hart Crane JHU Gazette
Film & Media Studies student crew on faculty filmmaker Matt Porterfield's third feature, I Used to Be Darker.
Watch Running to Keep From Falling by faculty filmmaker John Mann
Watch I Choose Darkness by faculty filmmaker Karen Yasinsky
Michael K. Williams during his lecture with Film and Media Studies students this past Fall. More >
View student film Trav'lin' Light by Diana Peralta
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Alumni Profiles

Our professors showed us how films touch on every aspect of the human experience, why certain films have such cultural relevance, how they inform how we live.
- Jane Miller, Class of 2004,
playwright and screenwriter

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The Stephen Dixon / Outside The Box Motion Pictures Award 2012 Winner: John Wedemeyer

Film & Media Studies Junior, John Wedemeyer was honored with The Stephen Dixon / Outside The Box Motion Pictures Award for his screenplay Looking Glass.

Sara Salovaara was honored as the runner-up for her screenplay Anthill.

In 2007, after more than two decades teaching in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Stephen Dixon retired. An author of novels and short stories of distinction, Professor Dixon also taught generations of students who universally felt privileged to have him as an instructor and advisor.

One such student, Josh Siegel, a Writing Seminars alumnus of the Class of 1996, directed and produced his first film while still an undergraduate at Hopkins. Today, Siegel is an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles and credits his success in great part to having Professor Dixon as his mentor.

Wanting to honor Professor Dixon and hoping to inspire Hopkins students to pursue their creative aspirations, Siegel has established an annual award for the best storytelling submitted by current undergraduate students: The Stephen Dixon / Outside The Box Motion Pictures Award, which carries a cash prize of $500.

Welcome new FMS majors!

Kristen Politis

Ingrid Nelson

Evelyn Feeney

Joshua Goodstein

Dylan Hans

Joshua Land

Maxwell Bowens

Maria Callahan

Ryan Cunningham


Thinking About Becoming a Film and Media Studies Major?


"The best part of the program is definitely the hands on experience we get but also the people I’ve met and been able to talk to." - Alexandra Byer Class of 2011


"Being a Film & Media Studies major introduced me to both the more theoretical study of film as well as real world experience though my internships, and it has completely defined what I want to do with my life after Hopkins." - Clare Richardson Class of 2012


Check out the Academics blog and see personal stories from our Film and Media Studies majors. These blogs are student-written and give you an up-close look at the experiences that real students have had at Johns Hopkins. You’ll read about how students chose their majors and minors and the opportunities they are discovering. Within the blogs, you’ll read about students who have changed or added majors, taken classes completely unrelated to their major, fulfilled multiple majors and minors, and otherwise explored their academic curiosities here.

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