Senior Honors Thesis
2025
FMS 2025 Senior Honors Thesis students: Bryan Miller, Jo Willman, Lyla Hersh, Anevay Ybáñez, Abby Sommers, Sasha Vogel, Kelly Kimbis, David Rivas-Discua, Mitchell Brown
The Tufts Daily published a series of articles highlighting the 2025 Film and Media Studies Senior Honors Thesis projects. The efforts were in conjunction with the students in FMS94, Studies in Film Festivals, who coordinated with the Daily editors and writers to create this series. The inaugural course was taught by Professor Denise Cummings.
The projects, which included films, a screenplay, and a scholarly research paper, were presented in the FMS Student FIlm Festival in May.
Jo Willman blends ballet, time in senior thesis ‘In Space and Time’
Matthew Winkler
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Anevay Ybáñez
Dreams and directing chaos: Lyla Hersh’s surreal film
Max Nielsen
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Lyla Hersh
David Rivas Discua’s senior thesis tackles silence in film
Ryan Fairfield
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Toki Eashir
Mitchell Brown discusses the process behind psychological thriller ‘Compulsion’
Max Nielsen
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Mitchell Brown
Kelly Kimbis talks process behind her upcoming short, ‘The Hitman’s Laundromat’
Ryan Fairfield
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Kelly Kimbis
Bryan Miller talks the end of the world in his senior thesis
Ava Dettling
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Bryan Miller
Sasha Vogel’s ‘Well and Good’ explores climate justice
Charlotte Hohneker
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Sasha Vogel
Where music meets fantasy: ‘The Locked Groove’
Dominic Matos
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Eliseo Vigil
Anevay Ybáñez honors home and community through senior project
Charlotte Hohneker
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Anevay Ybáñez
TUTV also joined the fun and created two videos highlighting this year's projects, featuring FMS senior thesis students Lyla Hersh, Sasha Vogel, Abby Sommers, and Kelly Kimbis.
These videos were created by Arianna Shalhoub and Cecelia Wang for FMS94, Film Festivals Studies (Sp25).