Cecil Awards & Nominations!
In anticipation of our student-produced awards Show, the Cecil Awards, our faculty has voted on the list of graduates’ thesis films. Check out the full list of nominations from each program here!
Cinephile’s Dream Calendar: Max’s Picks for the 2nd Half of May
Well now that we’ve all gotten our Avengers fix in, it’s time to take a look at the repertory high points in the second half of May, and boy, are there some fantastic movies. Below are the three screenings I’m most excited about.
Community Voices 2012 Screening
On Wednesday night, the “Community Voices” class screened its fourth annual series of final projects.
Digital Arts Students’ Mobile Game “AXLE” Wins Chapman a New Trophy!
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the IEEE Trophy are our very own Digital Arts, and Computer Science majors!
“There Will Be Blood” screens on film with Filmmaker-in-Residence
Filmmaker-In-Residence JoAnn Sellar will screen There Will Be Blood, PT Anderson’s epic capitalist drama, tonight in the Folino. This stellar film will be screened on a 35mm film print!
Fuel Freedom Foundation Video Competition for Dodge College Students
The Fuel Freedom Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Irvine, is dedicated to removing barriers to competition in the transportation fuel market in order to promote development of cheaper, cleaner, American-made alternatives to oil. The Foundation is sponsoring a competition among Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts students to produce a
Society News LA: “Women In Focus at Chapman University Dodge College”
The accolades and positive reviews of Women In Focus 2012 just keep rolling in! This morning, Society News LA posted about the conference, highlighting the panelists and VIPs at the event.
Community Voices 2012
Community Voices is a social issue documentary film program which links Chapman University documentary film students with Orange-County based organizations. Each semester, groups of students produce short character-driven portrait films that highlight causes the partner organizations aim to serve. The films are then used in the outreach and fundraising campaigns of these organizations, and are
Got Sitcom Scripts? Amazon is Producing Original Series
Exciting news for TV and webseries-loving writing students today, as reported on AllThingsD. Amazon has released the first details on their Amazon Studios website, seeking submissions in the comedy and children’s series categories. From the Amazon Instant Video mini-site: What Kinds of Series Does Amazon Studios Want? We’re looking for compelling new voices and characters
The Daily Pilot: “Arts Community Gathers at Chapman University”
The Daily Pilot published a feature about our Women In Focus conference yesterday, in their “The Crowd” section, highlighting influential members of the Orange County community. An interesting bit of Dodge College news from The Daily Pilot: Bob Bassett, dean of the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University,
Cinephile’s Dream Calendar: May Edition
< ?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> Welcome to the summer movie season! We’ve got The Avengers this week and over the next several months we get films like Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises , films that could potentially become classics. However, we won’t be able to tell if they’re classics for years, so why not go
Win an iPad at the Cecil Awards 2012!
We are very excited to announce that the Cecil Awards 2012 will be giving away an iPad to one lucky winner at this year’s show! Could the winner be you? Just follow these simple steps to enter: Submit a 60-second video in the comment box below the announcement video on the Cecil Awards 2012 YouTube