Film Matters is pleased to announce that judging for the 2018 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship is well underway thanks to the hard work of our volunteer judges:
Michael Benton, Humanities Professor at Bluegrass Community & Technical College, specializes in film studies, documentary, and peace and conflict studies and hosts the Bluegrass Film Society.
Ari Laskin, Assistant Professor in Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College, is a film theorist, media historian, and filmmaker who teaches courses in global film and media, film genre, critical and visual studies, and film production.
Elizabeth Ward, Lecturer in German at the University of Hull, is a cultural historian specializing in East German cinema and film in the Cold War and has published on both East German film and twenty-first-century German cinema.
We heartily thank our 2018 judges for the service they are providing! And we look forward to announcing the results before the end of 2018.
So please watch this space!
