November 22, 2023

UC student Ella Marcil talks to Hawaii Public Radio about her new documentary capturing the last-ditch effort of conservationists to save an endangered bird in Hawaii.

September 9, 2021

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences has established a School of Communication, Film and Media Studies. The new school is a compilation of the existing departments of Communication, Public Relations and Film and Media Studies and the Digital Media Collaborative.

December 2, 2022

As global media descends on Eastern Europe to cover Russia’s war in Ukraine, two University of Cincinnati students are planning to cover the region from a different angle. Hunter Shallcross and Tanmay Srivastava, both digital media collaborative majors in the College of Arts and Sciences, have planned a trip to multiple European countries to film their own documentary, titled “The Edge of Chaos.” The trip is scheduled for May of 2023.  The pair became friends through their passion for film, and soon started partnering on projects. Last February, Shallcross and Srivastava became interested in the way culture and art are changing in countries on the edge of Europe due to the war, and decided to develop the idea into a documentary. “Everybody is flocking to Eastern Europe to document what is going on. We want it to show the artistic side,” says Shallcross. “The shots, the camera angles, and the narrative we want to tell about relationships and personal issues that go beyond war.”  They began pitching their documentary idea to various professors and making any connections they could to bring their idea to life. Last May, they even attended the Cannes Film Festival, to get some first-hand film experience, while networking with people there. 

December 15, 2021

The media world is an ever-changing landscape, with new technologies and innovations popping up each year. Between direction, screenwriting, animation and game design, opportunities are vast. The Digital Media Collaborative (DMC) program at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences hopes to prepare students for the industry and these focus areas by working with advanced media tools to tell stories.

October 11, 2023

Ella Marcil, a digital media student at the University of Cincinnati, was commissioned by the Kauai County Office of Economic Development to document the work of scientists who are scrambling to save the last members of a songbird called the akikiki.

February 1, 2021

By Rebecca Schweitzer    Students in the University of Cincinnati's College of Arts & Sciences are always finding new ways to gain experience in their fields. Callie Tucker, a fourth-year digital media collaborative student, has her sights set on Hollywood, and during her time at UC, Tucker has had the opportunity to intern at some of the most well-known media companies in order to help this dream.

March 9, 2021

Erica Bock wrote a feature length screenplay for her capstone project as a senior in the Digital Media Collaborative in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Since graduating in the fall of 2019, she has been making the festival rounds with her drama that focuses on a college student in the 1950s wrestling with drugs and her sexual identity.

October 27, 2021

Latasha Hamner, a Digital Media Collaborative (DMC) student in the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences, studied abroad virtually through UC International partnership in Germany.

December 20, 2021

As a leading urban public university, UC cultivates opportunities for its students to engage with the community and connect with the local neighborhoods. These connections are designed in part to create pathways to higher education that some students in Cincinnati Public Schools might otherwise not have envisioned. In one such collaboration during fall semester, students in UC’s Digital Media Collaborative teamed with students from Oyler School to create a series of short documentary films about life in the community of Lower Price Hill, an urban Appalachian neighborhood located two miles west of downtown Cincinnati.

September 20, 2023

The University of Cincinnati celebrated the opening of Clifton Court Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 19, with a ribbon cutting, attended by approximately 200 administrators, faculty, staff and students. The event was covered by multiple media outlets.