Projects & News
Project DU F.I.L.M. provides students with a collaborative and experiential approach to filmmaking, focused on promoting inclusivity in the film industry. Our films and our podcast, "Moving Pictures," provide a platform for diverse voices.
Recent Projects
Womanhood: The Series – Women in STEM
Womanhood: The Series – Women in STEM is a collaborative storytelling project between filmmakers and women in STEM that uses narrative comedic filmmaking to draw attention to inequities in STEM and to show how we might fix these issues. Womanhood: The Series is an award-winning episodic film project that uses heart and humor to explore what it means to be a woman in a world where their experiences are often taboo.
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Breaking the Turfgrass Ceiling
In 14 unique short episodes, Breaking the Turfgrass Ceiling docu-series takes viewers to the US Open golf tournament and gets personal with the female crew as we hear heartfelt stories about a love for turf, maintenance, course architecture and the golf industry. We witness the tight bonds within this group of women who often feel like unicorns in an industry that is less than 2% women. We see them in action — mowing fairways in the dark, cutting cups at sunrise and hand mowing and hand watering the greens — for the best players in the world.
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Happy F-ing Valentines Day
In this short film, Valentine's Day provides the backdrop for a comedy that asks the question, how can trying to do something so right turn out so f-ing wrong? The script, co-written by DU professor Sheila Schroeder, PhD, and partner, Kate Burns, was inspired by true events that transpired on Valentine's Day, 2015 in Nederland, CO.
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Scary Lucy
After seeing a grotesque statue dedicated to her comedic idol, Lucille Ball, a risk averse comedienne with breast cancer makes it her mission to destroy "Scary Lucy" in this 2018 award winning short film produced by Project DU F.I.L.M. participants. "Scary Lucy" was screened across the U.S. and won awards for best screenplay in multiple film festivals.
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Hunting Season
Set in small-town Wyoming where bars have been known to turn into dance halls and strip clubs during hunting season, this was planned as the third short film produced under Project DU F.I.L.M. However, after working with students to cast, costume, art direct and table read the film, it was shut down twice by COVID.
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