Blue and red blended background with the title Media Arts Festival across the middle in white font.
Media Arts Festival 2023
Page

EXHIBIT: Learning To Love By Miles Bolton, Madeleine McColl, 4th Year MIT This podcast was created in the MIT Audio Journalism and Podcasting class for the final project. The Learning to Love Podcast follows hosts Madeleine McColl and Miles Bolton as they consult fellow Western students and experts on the topic of love.  EXHIBIT: Made for Mermaid Unofficial Music Video … Read More

About the Lab
Page

About the Lab The intention of the FIMS Film Festival Critics Lab is to provide FIMS students with enhanced access to TIFF, North America’s most prominent public film festival, and to develop student exposure to film festivals as media ecosystems through the lens of film criticism and festival programming. The practice of film criticism uniquely brings together the creative and … Read More

Lab Director
Page

Lab Director Professor Nataleah Hunter-Young Nataleah Hunter-Young (she/they) is a writer, film curator, and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. At the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), she is International Programmer responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia. Nataleah has supported Festival programming at TIFF since … Read More

Black and white banner - Fims Film Critics Lab
FIMS Film Festival Critics Lab
Page

FIMS Film Festival Critics Lab An Insider Experience at TIFF 2023 Film festivals are dynamic non-profit ecosystems where creative practitioners (filmmakers, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, composers) meet industry (sales and talent agencies, distributors, investors), the press (critics), and public audiences. The FIMS Film Festival Critics Lab offers undergraduate and graduate FIMS students the opportunity to attend a number of films … Read More

Media Arts Festival
Page

An annual celebration of creative work submitted by FIMS undergraduate students in Media, Information and Technoculture (MIT), Media and the Public Interest (MPI) and Creative Arts and Production (CAP).

MAF – Video Exhibits
Page

VIDEO EXHIBITS EXHIBIT: Romanticize the Moment By Samuel Arango Londono & Farah Shohib, 1st year MIT This year, we’ve all learned the importance of appreciating and living for the small moments. Especially during these unprecedented and desperate times with the COVID-19 outbreak, we were inspired to create something that could inspire the viewer – to radiate positivity and leave the … Read More

MAF – Visual Essays
Page

CREATIVE/VISUAL ESSAYS EXHIBIT: Melancholy By Candice Chow, 1st year MIT This semester I am taking MIT1070 taught by Professor Bello. When prompted with a visual essay project, I wanted to convey the sharp discrepancies between the two states of mind: blissfulness and melancholy. The uninteresting setting of a public park and public transit dissociates the character from the setting and … Read More

MAF – Image Exhibits
Page

IMAGE EXHIBITS EXHIBIT: Basement Garden By Sarena Akhter, 2nd year MIT & Madeleine McColl, 2nd year MPI The “Basement Garden” photoshoot took place on the evening of October 31st as a fun and safe way to celebrate Halloween. We were inspired by our floral costumes and wanted to create a whimsical garden-like scene in our basement. The growth and whimsy … Read More

Making Matters
Page

Making Matters Speaker Series – Schedule of Events Presented by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University All events open to the public. Making Matters explores knowledge and expression in a range of forms, from song, birdcalls and language, to buildings, web series and zines. When people make things, something happens. Our five guests bring multidisciplinary expertise … Read More