BY DONNA BUNCE Register Columnist The tray-passed red cosmo and green apple martinis were a sure sign the holidays had arrived at The Fashionable Women of Chapman's annual soiree, "Christmas at The Ritz," Saturday, December 5. This year's 23rd annual holiday celebration, held at its namesake, the venerable Ritz Restaurant & Garden in Newport Beach,
Three scribes admitted to exclusive program By JON WEISMAN Nickelodeon's Fellowship for Diverse Writers announced three new participants, who will work on live-action and animated series for the network. The honorees are poet and songwriter Jonathan Butler (a past winner of Billboard's new artist award), playwriting and screenwriting MFA grad Stacie Craig and Chapman
Jin-Sung Park, left, director of Evil Spirit, Young-Nam Kim, director of Don't look back, middle, and Dong-Won Kim, director of Drifting Away, at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / November 23, 2009) The Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon admires the oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino and readily acknowledges
By GREG HEFFERNAN indiawest.com November 23, 2009 02:49:00 PM HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Chapman University president James Doti and Bob Bassett, dean of the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, received the Partners in Progress award during the recent Sikh Art and Film Festival held Nov. 13-15 at the Egyptian theater here. In accepting
The Public is Invited to an Evening of Student-Produced Films Exploring Life on the Continent, Wednesday, November 18th at 7 PM ORANGE, Calif. (November 18, 2009) — Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and the International Documentary Program present Destination: Africa, a screening of three powerful student-produced documentary films on Wednesday, November 18,
by Josh Elmets | Published November 16, 2009 From November 20 to 22, Chapman University in Orange County, California will introduce to cinema what chefs have been successfully applying to food for decades: Asian fusion. The university’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will play host to the first ever Pusan West Film Festival, the western
Chapman Presents Pusan West (“Chapman Pusan West”) Brings Renowned Korean Filmmakers and Films to the United States For An Unprecedented Cultural and Cinematic Event Orange, CA (November 9, 2009) – Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States announced a groundbreaking partnership with
By Jean Noh For ScreenDaily.com Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has formed a partnership with Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts to launch a filmmaker showcase to bring a selection of Korean films and filmmakers from PIFF to the US. The joint announcement was made Monday (Nov 9) by Dodge College dean
By Gregg Kilday Nov 9, 2009, 06:42 PM ET Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange, Calif., is partnering with the Pusan International Film Festival to bring Korean films and filmmakers to the U.S. Dodge dean Bob Bassett and PIFF director Lee Yong-Kwan said the inaugural Chapman Pusan West Filmmaker Showcase
October 24, 2009 Robert Bassett Earlier this month, a group of 17 foreigners roamed around the theater district in Busan during the 14th Pusan International Film Festival. They weren’t film fans from China or other nearby countries in Asia. Rather, this group consisted of students studying Korean film in classes – and their
Spielbergs Not Bound for USC, NYU or UCLA Chapman University Orange, Calif. Among filmmakers in California, Chapman is one of the little secrets, a campus a long highway drive from the West L.A. mansions of movie legends that produces some of the most talented people in the business. Among its 5,700 students are 1,200 who
By RICHARD CHANG The Orange County Register Click here to see photos of the Polaroid exhibit in Fullerton Click here to see examples of how Polaroid pictures have been used in pop culture Kevin Staniec, center, a film graduate of Chapman University, is organizing an exhibition of Polaroid photographs called Instant Gratification at Hibbleton Gallery