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Department of Cinema and Media Studies

The Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is a hub for humanistic inquiry into film, television, audiovisual artworks, material texts of various kinds, digital media, as well as environmental media.

The intellectual core of the undergraduate and graduate programs places an emphasis on the history, intellectual and formal analysis of film and media practice. Students are exposed to screenwriting and production as well as to film and media theory, engaging critically with the study of national and global film movements as well as with the long history of all manner of media.


    2025 Grantees

  • Footprints in the Sand
    • Ejun Mary Hong and Justin Nam Duong
      • 2025
      • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Department of Music
      • Department of Physics & Astronomy
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
      • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design
  • Voices from Kakuma: A Collaborative Curation with FilmAid Kenya
    • Mira Kwon and Taj Swaminathan-Sipp
      • 2025
      • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • 2023 Grantees

  • Palestine Writes Literature Festival: Indigenous Stories of a Fabled Homeland
    • Huda Fakhreddine and Palestine Writes
      • 2023
      • Community Partnerships
      • Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)
      • Kelly Writers House
      • Middle East Center
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Wolf Humanities Center
  • 2021 Grantees

  • Ethiopia’s Last Jews
    • Peter Decherney
      • 2021
      • Independent Creative Production
      • Making Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences

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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
mcinernj@upenn.edu

Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
215-573-2159
reison@upenn.edu

Elizabeth Shaw (she/her)
Administrative Assistant
215-898-5930
elizshaw@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation offices are located at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA

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