Press Releases
Universities of Warwick and Leeds secure prestigious national award for screen industries PhD programme
University of Warwick will host a Doctoral Focal Awards with a specific emphasis on sustainability and diversity in the screen industries.
Community film project puts LGBTQIA+ end-of-life stories in the spotlight
A powerful new community film project from The University of Warwick is inviting LGBTQIA+ people in the Midlands with a terminal diagnosis, and those close to them, to share their stories on camera.
Lights, Camera, Death
How did it make you feel when your favourite television character died right in front of your eyes?
Whether it’s the death of Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, or Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, the portrayal of death on TV hits audiences on a personal level and sparks conversations about how we deal with death, dying and bereavement.
Experience Coventry as you never have before at new University of Warwick exhibition
Coventry and Warwickshire residents are getting a second chance to see and experience artworks created as part of the Sensing the City project, previously shown in The Herbert in 2020.
Warwick researchers help tell story of Coventry Cathedral on new BBC documentary
Using a wealth of rarely-seen archive film, together with voices from yesterday and today, the new documentary Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain (BBC Four, Wednesday 9th June 21.00) will tell the unique story of the rebuilding of the cathedral following its destruction in 1940.
BIFA longlists Lucy Brydon’s Body of Water for three awards
Body of Water, the debut feature film by director and screenwriter Lucy Brydon — who also teaches at her alma mater, the University of Warwick — has been longlisted for three British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).