UHD Film Studies

02/25/2026

LOOK at this Schedule! March 18-22, 2026

Enjoy all film screenings, panels, workshops and live music events with a $65 All-Access Badge! Students and teachers get a special discount price at $40 (*must show student ID) at badge pick up. General Admission tickets will be available for $14 for each screening in February 2026.

02/12/2026

UPDATE — May 1, 2, 3, 2026 at Rice Cinema!!

Houston Palestine Film Festival Shares the stories of Palestinians through cinema

11/07/2025

Students from ENG 3354: Introduction to Film Studies learned so much about film archives, useful cinema, and The Texas Heart Institute Film Collection during our trip to the McGovern Historical Center today 🫀🎞️🫀🎞️!

10/17/2025

Many thanks to all who came out and watched the slow the sunset and then attuned themselves to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Dir. Wes Craven, 1984) on UHD’s North Deck as the blow up screen weirdly came alive in the slight breeze, wavering and skin-like! Such a hilarious audience — quietly and nervously gazing, shouting out when a jump scare or gore took us by surprise, and laughing at Nancy’s mother’s vodka bottle! Year 14 is a wrap!

10/02/2025

HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY // 10 / 16 / 2025
UHD 14th Annual
HALLOWEEN HORROR FILM / on UHD's North Deck / 7pm
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (dir. Wes Craven, 1984)
free and open to the public

09/05/2025

UHD B.A. in ENGLISH ALUM — We are SO proud!!

English alum Abraham Leija's academic quest led to a prestigious MFAH internship and a clear career path.

08/07/2025

Black Cinema Club HTX --

Houston-born actor Jerry Madison says he is establishing a space for Black film creatives in the city to get together and swap ideas.

05/19/2025

"Applications for the Barbara Hammer Le***an Experimental Filmmaking Grant are open from March 31st, 2025–July 2nd, 2025. For questions, read our frequently asked questions, or email Communications Manager, Andrius Alvarez-Backus, at [email protected]."

| Barbara Hammer Grant

05/02/2025

This Weekend!

Houston Palestine Film Festival Shares the stories of Palestinians through cinema

04/30/2025

Watch Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther and Creed, break down the range of ways to view Sinners on the big screen. Experience Sinners only in theat...

03/03/2025

Director Basel Adra calls on the world to ‘stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people’ in acceptance speech.