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The Department of Film & Digital Media is proud to announce that Senior Lecturer and Film Festival Specialist Maverick Moore has been selected as a Baylor Fellow for the 2026–2027 academic year.

The Department of Film and Digital Media is pleased to announce the publication of Bonhoeffer on Film: Depictions and Interpretations of the Great Theologian, a new book by our own Zachary Sheldon, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Interim Undergraduate Program Director.

Baylor film professors Sam Henderson and Maverick Moore had no idea their short film would receive this much attention and were even more shocked when it was shortlisted for an Oscar.

Three Baylor University filmmakers -- two recent graduates and a current graduate student –– have won awards at the 2025 BEA Festival of Media Arts. In the annual contest, the original films created by the Baylor winners competed with works by their peers from more than 300 colleges and universities. 

The Department of Film & Digital Media is pleased to announce that, beginning in Fall 2022, Baylor students from all departments across campus will have the opportunity to minor in Film Theory and Criticism.

Baylor University has been named a Research 1 university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, joining the nation’s top-tier research institutions as a doctoral university with very high research activity and elevating Baylor as a preeminent Christian research university.

The movie-watching experience continues to evolve. And while directors wish all people could experience their movies on the silver screens in theaters, they know most people these days will be watching on the big screens in their living rooms or on the small screens in their hands.

Corey Carbonara and Michael Korpi are developing a system that could revolutionize color display on high-definition screens. 6P has drawn the attention of NASA, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and a variety of media organizations.

Gaffer. Key grip. Foley artist. Nonsensical words for most people. But sharp-eyed readers and film and TV industry buffs know they are all critical jobs on a Hollywood film set. How to land one of those coveted roles in the competitive, closed-off world of Hollywood movie-making, however, is often less clear.