This presentation of Music Performers and Speakers reflects the wide variety of cultural richness that Winnipeg has to offer. Cinephilia: Film Love, Past & Present. Brenda Austin-Smith teaches Film Studies in the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. Her courses are on Film and the City, Cult Film, Film and Feeling, among others, and her research is on film and emotional spectatorship, film melodrama, and adaptation. Film clips included.