(Correspondent: Sun Yuhong) On October 12, a ten-member delegation from the University of Veracruz (UV), Mexico, led by Juan Ortiz Escamilla, Director of the Office of International Relations, visited Communication University of China (CUC).

(Correspondent: Zhang Ruoqi) On October 15, the official website of the FERATUM International Fantastic Film Festival announced its 2026 official selection. Murmure, by Yu Jinhong and Wang Ziyu, and So Shiny, So Well Shaped, by Li Meixuan, Wu Yilin, and Nie Junlin—animation students, Class of 2021, at CUC’s School of Animation and Digital Arts—made the list, both selected for the International Animated Short Film Competition (CORTOMETRAJE INTERNACIONAL DE ANIMACIÓN EN COMPETENCIA).

The 2026 Hangzhou International Electronic Music Festival, an event of the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo, was held in Hangzhou, focusing on the fusion of electronic music and AI through concerts, master classes, workshops, and a composition competition. Faculty and students from CUC's School of Music and Recording Arts were invited to present the new-media electronic music concert Sound & Shadow, with several original works winning prizes in the concurrent international composition competition.

Two student works from Communication University of China's School of Animation and Digital Arts won awards at the 2026 Khabarovsk International Animation Film Festival in Russia: *Hi, Lucky!* by Huang Ritong and three teammates took the Grand Prix—the festival's top award—while *Interviewphobia* by Chen Yihan and three teammates won Best Director. Out of 2,970 entries from 111 countries, only 14 works were honored.

Recently, the 83rd Venice International Film Festival closed. Among the three awards presented by the Venice Immersive Competition, the VR work The Pigeon Ring, directed and written by Zhang Yuqi, a graduate of the inaugural cohort (Class of 2019) of the Film Photography and Production major (Virtual Imaging Production direction) at the School of Drama, Film and Television of Communication University of China, and supervised by Che Lin, Associate Professor at the School of Drama, Film and Televi

On September 28, the UNESCO Creative Cities Design Forum, themed Design for New, Steering Intelligence for Far-Reaching——Challenges and Practices of AI-Integrated Design, was successfully held in Shanghai. At the forum, the UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia officially released the results of the When AI Meets Design global call for good practices. The AI interactive art installation Transcendence: Vitality of Mountain and Water by the team of Professor Wang Lei, Dean of the School of Animatio

Recently, the China Open International Volunteer Team Chinese Culture Training Session was held at the International Media Education Institute (International Student Affairs Center) of Communication University of China. The event was jointly organized by Communication University of China and the University of Missouri, with faculty and student representatives from both universities and all volunteers participating together, marking the official launch of offline training for the 2026 China Open

On September 14 local time, the 53rd Student Academy Awards ceremony was held during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) at the TIFF Lightbox venue. The animated short film Gauze, co-directed by Yue Yulin and Ma Xinyue, graduates of the School of Animation and Digital Art at Communication University of China, won the Bronze Medal in the Animation category. This honor is an important achievement of the schools internationalized talent cultivation in animation, fully demonstrating stude