The department teaches film and digital media in an interdisciplinary environment, encouraging students' development in critical reasoning and creative expression.

Students are provided with a wide range of learning experiences and practices in film production and film studies, preparing students to become film/media artists, craftspeople, historians, programmers, critics, and arts educators.

The film program at the University of Regina began in the early 1970s,[1] with courses taught by Jean (Hans) Oser,[2] a German editor and filmmaker, whose career began in Berlin in the 1920s.

With the rise of the Nazis, Oser's career continued in France and Hollywood, and included directing the 1953 Oscar-winning short film Light in the Window.

Graduates from the programs include Gemini Award-winning Producers, Directors and Editors; independent filmmakers whose films have screened around the world; screenwriters, cinematographers, crew members, curators, festival programmers, and educators.