By Ryan Yau, Content Managing Editor
/ April 9, 2025
On Tuesday, VMA Presents programmed a special advanced screening of three short films by faculty members, which featured women-centric films about issues...
A big weapon they’re depending upon is shame. They want to make dissidents feel ashamed. At universities around the country, administrators want us to feel guilt
By Ryan Yau, Content Managing Editor
/ September 18, 2024
By its twelfth anniversary, the Bright Lights Cinema Series has introduced three generations of Emerson students to hundreds of independent films, highlighting social issues and marginalized perspectives.
By Abigail Lee, Magazine Editor
/ October 19, 2022
A documentary recently shown as part of the Bright Lights line up interrogates the ethics of the documentary genre itself.
Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera...
The Bright Lights film series, presented by Emerson’s visual and media arts department, recently announced its fall 2022 lineup, with the first screenings...
From narratives and documentaries, to experimental and animation, Emerson returns for its 21st annual Film Festival on Mar. 30, featuring 10 films from...
The college’s Bright Lights Film Series announced their fall 2021 lineup on Sept. 7, featuring 12 documentary films that highlight social justice issues.
The...
By Karissa Schaefer, Staff Writer, Living Arts
/ February 7, 2021
A public school teacher and a former Marine turned to socialism due to their financial struggles in a documentary directed by Yael Bridge. The Big Scary...
By Lucia Thorne, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
/ November 8, 2020
Disclosure director Sam Feder and actress-writer Jen Richards discussed the documentary’s analysis of the ways trans representation in Hollywood both...
By Taina Millsap, Former Staff Writer
/ November 11, 2019
Emerson College plans to screen Adam at the Nov. 12 Bright Lights Film Festival—a movie that has drawn significant criticism from the LGBTQ community...
The Bright Lights Film Series began posting content advisories on its website this fall to warn students about graphic and upsetting material in screenings.
Students...
After Anna Feder, director of programming for the visual and media arts department, screened Swiss Army Man for the Bright Lights Film Series, she was...
