FMS students provided script coverage for the 18th annual Baltimore Screenwriters Competition, sponsored by the Baltimore Film Office at the Baltimore Office for Promotion and the Arts. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in May. Under the supervision of FMS Senior Lecturer Lucy Bucknell, students were first readers for both features and shorts. Here’s what […]

Film and Media Studies is proud to announce that John D’cruz and Cierra Gladden have been chosen for the second cohort of the Peter Roth Internship Program being offered by the Paley Center for Media. This highly selective paid internship is named in honor of longtime television studio chief Peter Roth. More about the Peter […]

Screenwriter, playwright, and teacher Marc Lapadula inspired and guided generations of young writers in his many years of teaching at Johns Hopkins University. The Marc Lapadula Screenwriting Prize has been established in his honor. A $4,000 award for a completed feature script will be awarded this year to a senior graduating with a major or […]

The second major studio feature written by Zach Baylin (FMS ’02) hit US theaters over the weekend. Creed III was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States and Warner Bros. Pictures internationally on March 3, 2023. The “Rocky” spinoff is projecting an opening north of $50 million, marking a franchise high across all the “Creed” films […]

FMS, in collaboration with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and the AAP Program in Film and Media, hosted an evening with Emmy-nominated costume designer, Justine Seymour. Ms. Seymour is widely admired for her ability to build character through costume work authentically, and her work was awarded the German TV Award for Best Costume Designer in […]

When the Academic Film Archive of North America (AFA) was looking for a new home for their extensive collection, Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins University made the short list of potential locations. After communicating with FMS director Adam Rodgers and Senior Lecturer, John Mann, Sheridan Libraries was the clear choice. Read more about the film archive […]

FMS and History Department Teaching Professor Laura Mason will be presenting her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 7:00PM.

Fellows and instructors from Baltimore Youth Film Arts (BYFA) gathered for their fall screening on November 12.  Find more information and check out fellow artwork at https://www.filmartsbaltimore.org. The BYFA Program offers Baltimore City residents ages 16 to 29 the opportunity to learn camera skills, refine storytelling techniques, and create films and photographs to be shared at […]

Congratulations to FMS Junior, Cierra Gladden, whose short film Sundown has received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award. Provost Joseph Cooper (1991-1995) established the PURA program in 1993 with a generous endowment by the Hodson Trust. The program was created to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students to engage in independent research, scholarly and creative projects. Sundown injects the […]