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Posters of the films honored at the 2025 Redstone Film Festival. The annual festival is hosted by Boston University’s Department of Film and Television, sponsored by the Sumner Redstone Foundation and features BU student films. PHOTO BY TATE HAM

Meet the films honored at 2025 Redstone Film Festival and the students behind them

Tate Ham April 7, 2025
Audience members cheered their way through screenings of the films awarded as finalists at the annual Redstone Film Festival Friday. The student films depicted dynamic narratives ranging from identity, end of life, immigration and young adulthood. 
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First annual BlackBox Film Festival spotlights Boston’s Black student filmmakers

Milena Fernsler October 2, 2023
Lynn Asare-Bediako joined forces with her friend Lydia Evans, to form BlackBox, a Black student film club that hosted its first annual film festival on Sept. 22.
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COM StuGov’s short film festival highlights students work

Siena Griffin December 5, 2022
Student films were shown on the big screen at Tsai Performance Center Dec. 1.
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Boston Israeli Film Festival kicks off online

Katarzyna Jezak March 5, 2021
The program includes a selection of Israeli movies released in 2020, like the feature film “Sky Raiders” and documentaries “Four Mothers,” “Rain in Her Eyes” and “Rockfour: The Time Machine.” Live conversations with directors, actors and subjects will accompany each film.
“9to5: The Story of a Movement,” a documentary focused on women’s activism in the 1970s, screened Wednesday and Thursday in Emerson College’s Bright Lights Film Series. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Activists talk origins of women’s movement in ’70s Boston after doc screening

Molly Farrar February 1, 2021
The 2020 documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement" — directed by Oscar-winning duo Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar — highlighted the '70s women's movement in Boston where secretaries from across the city protested against unfair wages, sexual harassment and inequalities in the workplace.
“GraceLand,” a short film created by Boston University alumna Bonnie Kathleen Discepolo, follows a mother and her daughter Grace, who believes she is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. COURTESY OF BONNIE KATHLEEN DISCEPOLO

BU alum conquers gender identity in Elvis Presley-inspired film

Ashley Soebroto November 5, 2020
A former BU School of Theater and College of Communication student recently released a narrative comedy short film "GraceLand," which explores topics of gender, identity and acceptance.
Cobie Smulders stars as Kat in “Results,” which was screened at Independent Film Festival Boston Thursday. PHOTO BY RYAN GREEN/MAGNOLIA PICTURES

REVIEW: Weekend at IFFBoston features gains, gamers, Goldthwait

Hannah Landers April 27, 2015

The 13th annual Independent Film Festival Boston, which kicked off Wednesday night with James Ponsoldt’s “The End of the Tour,” continued into the weekend with a full slate of narrative and documentary...

Boston University faculty members gathered Wednesday at the Tsai Performance Center for the Spring 2016 Faculty Assembly and listened to reports from BU President Robert Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison and Faculty Council Chair Stephen Brady. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Redstones finalists turn production prowess into prodigious projects

Sonia Rao February 19, 2015

Sundance might be over for the year, but there is a new reason for film festival followers to rejoice — Boston University’s very own festival premieres later this month. The Redstones, presented...

IFFBoston takes indies back with in-depth character sketches

IFFBoston takes indies back with in-depth character sketches

Joe Incollingo April 30, 2014

It doesn’t quite seem right to call Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) an “up-and-comer” or an “underdog” in the realm of independent film festivals. Sure, it has to contend with...

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