Join us for an engaging romp through the literature to film adaptations of celebrated director Tony Scott, led by CFT alumnus Chayce Ward. A space of critical film and media discussion for faculty, students and UNG Community, the Scholars Symposium brings speakers for 30 minute presentations on a variety of topics across the field. All presentations are followed by a Q&A with the speaker.

Free screening of Send Help in Hawk Cinema on the Gainesville campus. Sponsored by the School of Communication, Film & Theatre. Film will be followed by an informal Q&A, led by faculty.

What: Send Help (Raimi, 2026) film screening

When: Thursday, October 15th @ 5pm

Where: Hawk Cinema, Performing Arts Bldg 108, GVL

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We're used to hearing about digital access in Africa as a problem for outsiders to fix. We often hear stories of poverty, gaps, and well-meaning rescue. This session flips that script. Drawing on innovations like Kenya's M-Pesa mobile money, Ushahidi's crisis-mapping, BOSCO Uganda's community-owned solar networks, the Masakhane African-language AI collective, and Nigeria's #EndSARS movement, we'll see how Africans are already building the technologies, infrastructures, and knowledge systems that a just digital future requires (not as passive recipients, but as co-equal innovators). Drawing from lessons from this research, attendees will leave with concrete ways to move from a "digital savior" mindset to everyday acts of digital solidarity, right from where you are! Please be sure to stay for the Q&A with the speaker afterwards!

Free screening of Carrie in Hawk Cinema on the Gainesville campus. Sponsored by the School of Communication, Film & Theatre. Film will be followed by an informal Q&A, led by faculty.

What: Carrie (DePalma, 1976) film screening

When: Wednesday, October 28th @ 5pm

Where: Hawk Cinema, Performing Arts Bldg 108, GVL

Filmmakers Robyn Hicks & Zahra Irannezhad will discuss the art of editing as discovery in their UNG Faculty Undergraduate Summer Engagement (FUSE) supported documentary project on Sybil Rosen. Although an Emmy award-winning writer, playwright, and actress, Sybil Rosen's work remains largely unknown, and this presentation offers an introduction into an extraordinary life outside the lens of celebrity and through the pathways of song, art, interviews and archival footage. A space of critical film and media discussion for faculty, students and UNG Community, the Scholars Symposium brings speakers for 30 minute presentations on a variety of topics across the field. All presentations are followed by a Q&A with the speakers.