Tamar Hanstke is a 2nd-year M.A. student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia and currently serves as both the graduate student representative for the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada, as well as the editor-in-chief for UBC's peer-reviewed film journal Cinephile. Tamar's personal research interests include star studies, queer film, and mental health representations in film and TV, and she is currently writing her thesis on the intersection of trauma and identity formation in cinematic representations of cinephilia. She most recently presented her paper "Don’t Let The Boys Crack Their Sweet Tooth: How the Contemporary Comic Book Adaptation Process Reflects the Ambivalence of Our Current Social and Political Moment" at the 2022 Literature/Film Association annual conference in New Orleans, and had her essay "Sweet Smell of Censorship: The Artistic Productivity of the Censor-Auteur Relationship in Classical Hollywood’s Film Noir Cycle" published in Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication.
Harrison Wade is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia and recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. He has a BA in Cinema Studies and English from the University of Toronto, where he received the Norman Jewison Fellowship in Film Studies. His thesis research is tentatively focused on non-photorealistic CGI and theories of special effects, realism, and perception, but he has also written on archives, digital materiality, phenomenology, feminist machinima, YouTube, and screen presence. He writes poetry and makes essay films.
Liam is a first-year MA student in the cinema and media studies program. Liam’s research interests surround contemporary American independent cinema and its intersections with auteurship in the context of a changing media landscape and new production, marketing, and distribution processes, as well as trans-national genre cinema such as Italian Gialli. Liam is also an independent filmmaker, having produced several short films that have been screened at various local Vancouver film festivals.
Will is a first-year MA student in the cinema and media studies program with interests in film philosophy, surveillance, and abject epistemologies. Will is also an independent filmmaker, having written, directed, and produced several short films that have been screened at various local Vancouver film festivals.
Film reviews of Charlotte Wells' Aftersun, Marie Kreutzer's Corsage, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, Charlotte Le Bon's Falcon Lake, Hong Sang-soo's The Novelist's Film, Sophie Jarvis' Until Branches Bend, and Connie Cocchia's When Time Got Louder.
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