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The Department of Film and Media Arts (FMA) enrolls approximately 500 undergraduates and more than 50 graduates. These students reflect the diversity of the contemporary film and media environment. The FMA program focuses on the development of creative and technical skills in film, video, audio, and new media, as well as the theoretical understanding of media and culture. In the program, faculty a

nd students acknowledge and explore the creative tension between individual expression and the social, political and economic forces that shape culture at large. Students also take the opportunity to select elective courses and minors to expand their educational experience in such areas as Anthropology, Business, English, Theater, Dance or Music. The FMA department brings in guest media-makers and visiting professors from diverse backgrounds for special lectures and workshops. The FMA Department offers a four-year undergraduate degrees (both BA and BFA), a three-year MFA (Documentary, Narrative, Media Arts and Screenwriting) degree and a certificate in Documentary Arts and Ethnographic Practices (DAEP).

09/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the inaugural CPCA Student Research Competition, a showcase of student excellence. This competition gives outstanding researchers the chance to present their work at a center-wide research symposium, and offers them an opportunity to gain valuable exposure and recognition, to enhance their professional profile, and to connect with students and faculty across multiple disciplines.

Students who are enrolled in a degree program within the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts can apply with a research paper in the Undergraduate, Masters, and Doctorate categories. The winning students will also speak about this paper and their research during a twenty-minute presentation at the research symposium, if selected as a winner.

There's a $1500 prize for each category, so why not apply? The research paper may be a term or seminar paper from a previous course, a master’s thesis chapter, or a dissertation chapter! For more information and deadlines, head to the link in our bio before Wednesday, Sept. 30th!

09/03/2026

Tomorrow: Scribe Video Center is holding a screening of the 2025 documentary LAND OF DREAMS, directed by Ambarien Alqadar (MFA '12)! LAND OF DREAMS has been screened at many festivals, including the San Francisco South Asian Film Festival, Indie Meme in Austin, TX, the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, and was also awarded Best Documentary by the Society for Visual Anthropology. Now, LAND OF DREAMS heads to Scribe Video Center!

Filmed over a decade between India and United States, LAND OF DREAMS is an intimate portrait of Virender Rana - a taxi driver from India, chasing his dream of becoming a filmmaker in America. While he points the camera at his own life and films a Bollywood style movie, the film follows his journey of coming to America, finding joy as part of a larger Sikh community and that of taxi drivers, and laying roots as an immigrant.

Seats are limited and are only $5, so head over to the Scribe Video Center and catch this great doc!

09/02/2026

We're sending a big congratulations to Eva Steinmetz (MFA '24) because her musical PENELOPE will be getting a production at Classic Stage Company later this year! This isn't the first time we've celebrated PENELOPE: the show premiered at Hudson Valley Shakespeare in 2023, followed by Theatre Horizon in association with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, both in 2025.

Penelope waited twenty years for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now she’s ready to share her side of the story…but she’s going to need a drink first. Starring Broadway’s Grace McLean, this contemporary chamber musical brings one of history’s greatest epics to life through a Richard Rodgers Award-winning folk-pop score. Sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving — this is Penelope’s Odyssey.

Congratulations, Eva! You can catch PENELOPE from December 10th-20th in New York City at the Classic Stage Company.

08/28/2026

TODAY! Join us in the Annenberg Atrium for our regular Actor and Filmmaker Tea Time! We're getting the tea early this semester so you can start off the semester ready to make all the great artistry with new and returning friends 🎥

Hosted by Prof. Micah Magee, personally get to know actors and filmmakers and work together on projects. Bring along a pocket full of ideas and a backpack full of dreams, we'll provide the tea and lemonade!

08/27/2026

TODAY! Join us in our new spot in the Annenberg Atrium for our annual Welcome Back party! Swing by to enjoy some food, performances, to connect with new & returning students, and to check out several arts-specific student organizations.

Thunderstorms can't keep us down ⛈️ We can't wait to see you there!

08/25/2026

For the third year in a row, we've been named one of the 30 Best Film Schools in the US and Canada by MovieMaker Magazine! 🏆 We're delighted to make this list alongside some other incredible institutions.

"In addition to hands-on courses with state of the art equipment, the curriculum covers major theories of image making and new technology, ensuring that students understand the social, political, and economic forces that shape media arts and the culture at large. That translates to a better understanding of both creativity and the marketplace."

Check out the whole list at the link in our bio!

08/24/2026

The Fall 2026 semester has officially begun! 🦉📚 It's wonderful seeing campus fill up with students again. Have a great semester, everyone!

08/21/2026

Convocation day!!! Here come the class of 2030 TFMA Owls! Welcome to the nest! Can’t wait to see everything you do!

08/20/2026

Tomorrow we formally welcome the class of 2030 to Temple University! 🦉 TFMA first years and transfers, we have an information session just for you at the Tomlinson Theater before the University Convocation:

8:45am - Doors open for Theater student info session (starts at 9am)
9:35am - Doors open for all TFMA (Theater, Film, and Media Arts) student welcome session (starts at 10am)
10:45 - All walk to the Liacouras Center
11am - University Convocation

We can't wait to meet you!

08/18/2026

California Owls! Prof. Emeritus Peter d'Agostino is bringing his latest installment of World-Wide-Walks, SFBAY (2014/2021) to the Transmission Gallery in Oakland! World-Wide-Walks are video documentation- performances spanning six continents for over five decades exhibited as installations, video-web and 360 VR projects.

World-Wide-Walks / SFBAY (2014/2021) is a video installation consisting of three walks - at the base of Sutro Tower, on the Bay Bridge, in the San Francisco cloud forest- juxtaposed with views overlooking the bay from the Oakland / Berkeley Hills. Recorded during the week of June 2014, at the summer solstice, the video incorporates images of shifting times, places and of environmental sounds composed by Reese Williams.

Congratulations, Peter! Catch World-Wide-Walks / SFBAY (2014/2021) through September 19th!

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2020 N 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA
19122

Telephone

+12152043859

Website

http://tfma.temple.edu/

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