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Ben Stiller speaks to audience members at the Tsai Performance Center on Friday. “An Evening with Ben Stiller” was a sold-out screening and Q&A with Stiller hosted by Boston University’s Film and Television department. MAGDALENA LAZOWSKI/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Ben Stiller arrives at BU, inspires ‘new voices’

Daisy Levine October 10, 2023
This past Friday, COM's Film and Television department hosted “An Evening with Ben Stiller,” where the actor, director and producer offered students advice on how to break into the film industry.
Authors Candelaria Silva, Coleman Luse, Delanda Coleman and Valerie Foxx speaking at the “Self-Publishing Your Children’s Book” event of the Boston Book Festival Oct. 22. COURTESY OF BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL

Community literature, arts celebrated at 13th Boston Book Festival

Phoebe Chen October 26, 2021
Authors and readers discussed literature and the arts at the hybrid annual Boston Book Festival.
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Philosophical Soup: The glorification of the U.S. military-industrial complex in film

Max Ferrandino April 14, 2021
The military thrives upon the media industry portraying the institution in a positive light.
Boston-based Director Thato Rantao Mwosa’s “Memoirs of a Black Girl.” The coming-of-age film was featured in the Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Roxbury coming-of-age film celebrating Black girlhood featured in Boston Globe film festival

Ramsey Khalifeh February 10, 2021
The Boston Globe's "Black History Month Film Festival" featured Thato Rantao Mwosa's "Memoirs of a Black Girl" — a coming-of-age film made to be representative of Mwosa's students in Roxbury.
EDITORIAL: The movie theater industry will survive, but small-scale cinema needs our support to recover

EDITORIAL: The movie theater industry will survive, but small-scale cinema needs our support to recover

Editors February 8, 2021
It’s easy to take our entertainment for granted and think all is well as long as big companies stay intact. But these small theaters are the flavor and spice of the industry and we must support them during their time of need.
“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.
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