About the Building

The Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies includes the 412-seat Goldsmith Family Cinema, 118-seat Powell Family Cinema, a seminar room, the Bay Production Wing, the Whedon Mezzanine, the Rick Nicita Gallery, and the Ogden and Mary Louise Reid Cinema Archives (or Wesleyan Cinema Archives). In 2021 the third and final phase of the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies was completed. The 16,000 square-foot addition includes a state-of-the-art production studio, a cyclorama and green screen, a 50-seat screening room, additional indoor and outdoor classroom spaces, a three-story house dedicated to on-site film shooting, and increased archival research space. Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Emerita Professor of Film Studies and founder of The Ogden and Mary Louise Reid Cinema Archives has been the lynchpin in securing funding for the $27 million project over the past 20 years. The center has been in development since 2000.

The Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies has state-of-the-art screening facilities with over 37 years of experience in running a film series, and a nationally recognized faculty who have first-hand knowledge of domestic and foreign cinema.