Congratulations to the student teams who presented their films in Destination: Africa last night! Every year, our documentary program, led by Professor Jeff Swimmer, whisks students away from their comfortable American lives, embedding them in a foreign culture, where they are charged with creating short films with a global impact. Destination: Africa films are produced
Professor Bill Kroyer’s History and Aesthetics of Digital Arts class enjoyed an amazing treat last night, as they heard from one of the founding fathers of modern visual effects: John Knoll. The class began, as always, with 3 brief student presentations, on their favorite aspects of their favorite digital film: Lilo & Stitch: for representing
As if the inspiring stories, cultural diversity, uplifting messages, and yes, FREE FOOD, wasn’t enough to get you excited for this weekend’s screening of Project W: Stories of Women Creating Change, we have a brand new trailer cut together by the production teams. Take a look, clear your calendar for this Friday evening, and get
A round of applause is in order for the team of Dodge College alumni working on “Hollywood Heroes,” a new short film recently entered into the brand-new “Shot on RED” Film Festival. Director Burke Doeren recently reached out to us, to share the exciting news that his film has been selected as one of the
2 Chapman films screen this week at the Bahamas Int”l Film Festival in Nassau: Blue (Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster) and Straight Down Low (Zach Wechter).
2 Chapman films screen this week at the Anchorage Int”l Film Festival in Alaska: Blue (Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster) and If We Were Adults (Michael Fitzgerald)
2 Chapman films are finalists in the PovertyCure International Short Film Festival: Picture Perfect (Winston Tao) and Shoot the Moon (Alexander Gaetas) are nominated for the $3000 Audience Award. You can help them win by voting for them on Facebook.
The “Community Voices” class documentary film Why We Race(Kiley Vorndran, Ryan Westra, Andrew Evers, Ben Fischinger) is one of five student films nominated for the IDA Student Documentary Award from the International Documentary Association. The awards ceremony will be held this Friday Night.
*If We Were Adults (Michael Fitzgerald) won Best Actress for Suziey Block”s performance at the LA Comedy Fest last month.
There is No Place for You Here(Elliott Balsley, Sam Price-Waldman, Haley Quartarone, Ruby Stocking) won Best Undergraduate Student Film Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Ethnographic Film Festival in Chicago, IL.
The independent short film Record/Play(produced by Dodge alum Chris Bryant “11) is one of ten short films on the shortlist for Academy Award-nomination. The five nominated short films will be announced in January.
The “Community Voices” class documentary film Why We Race(Kiley Vorndran, Ryan Westra, Andrew Evers, Ben Fischinger) is one of five student films nominated for the IDA Student Documentary Award from the International Documentary Association. The awards ceremony will be held on December 6.