University of Iowa Department of Cinematic Arts

03/25/2026

It’s One Day for Iowa, the University of Iowa’s 24-hour online giving day! Give to the Department of Cinematic Arts and help us continue to support our students and all their interests and activities, from filmmaking to screenwriting and beyond. 1day.uiowa.edu

09/17/2025

https://cinematicarts.uiowa.edu/news/2025/09/remembering-lauren-rabinovitz

The Department of Cinematic Arts joins the many colleagues, students, friends, and family of Professor Lauren Rabinovitz in mourning her death while honoring her remarkably rich life and career.

05/23/2025

03/26/2025

Maggie McCoy has generously offered to match all donations to Cinematic Arts up to $5000. Please consider accepting her challenge and helping us to serve our students! You can learn more about student groups - and the role of cinema in Iowa City - on our website: https://cinematicarts.uiowa.edu/cinema-iowa

On this , please consider giving to Cinematic Arts on our 10th anniversary! We are Iowa's only public-university film school, and we're growing fast. As we celebrate our first decade, we are working hard to deliver a world-class, comprehensive film education for our many students and their diverse career aspirations: as filmmakers, screenwriters, educators, cultural leaders, programmers and curators, marketing specialists, and much more. Your donation can make an enormous difference in students’ lives. Please consider supporting Cinematic Arts in the One Day for Iowa campaign on March 26th. You can also make a donation today at: https://1dayforiowa.org/cinematicarts25

03/22/2025

Vertical Cinema presents: a screening and workshop with film director Skinner Myers, April 17-18.

03/17/2025

On this , please consider giving to Cinematic Arts on our 10th anniversary! We are Iowa's only public-university film school, and we're growing fast. As we celebrate our first decade, we are working hard to deliver a world-class, comprehensive film education for our many students and their diverse career aspirations: as filmmakers, screenwriters, educators, cultural leaders, programmers and curators, marketing specialists, and much more. Your donation can make an enormous difference in students’ lives. Please consider supporting Cinematic Arts in the One Day for Iowa campaign on March 26th. You can also make a donation today at: https://1dayforiowa.org/cinematicarts25

03/15/2025

Congratulations to film production faculty member Patrick Wimp, whose documentary Mister Abbott, has been streaming on AMC+ as part of the "Chicago XL Rising Stars" series. The film also won the Director's Choice Award at the (In)Justice For All Film Festival International. Learn more about the film and project here: https://www.fertile.ai/pr2025

03/15/2025

Congratulations to Screenwriting faculty member Anna Morrison, who has won a prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Literature for Summer 2025!
https://www.macdowell.org/news/macdowell-awards-spring-summer-fellowships-to-artists-working-across-disciplines

03/15/2025

Congratulations to Film Studies faculty member Paula Amad for winning the 2025 Hubbard-Walder Award for Excellence in Teaching! The award recognizes outstanding faculty who have "demonstrated excellence in a rich variety of university teaching (e.g., undergraduate, graduate or professional, classroom, one-on-one) and contributed to curriculum and/or program development."
https://cot.org.uiowa.edu/teaching-awards/hubbard-walder-award-excellence-teaching -item-271-3

02/12/2025

Two of our gen-ed courses in Cinematic Arts are featured in this news story by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa. Keep a lookout for History of Animation and Video Games and Identity, both running next year, along with a whole roster of great gen-ed courses in film production, screenwriting and film studies!

https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/2025/02/discover-new-interests-clas-general-education-courses