Winston Tao”s film Picture Perfect won the Grand Golden Heart Award, Best Screenplay, Best editing, and Best actor at the at the Yxine Film Fest in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Love this photo by Dodge College student Rachel Conrad, taken “on the set” of the Interterm project “Sharp Left Turn.” Of course, this is for the class Location Filmmaking. So the “set” is really just… the world. Thanks to Rachel, and to Audrey Knox for the hat tip. Remember to tag us with #dodgecollege or
Our brand new Interterm class, “The Art and Business of Web Video,” challenges students to learn the ins and outs of online video distribution, in just four weeks . To give you a sense of what the class was like, I’ll tell you about some of what I saw them discuss, and next week
Students participating in the Interterm course “Essentials of Stunts and Special Effects” got an exhilarating treat last week! After an intensive month of near-daily meetings, lectures, demonstrations, and projects, the students in Professor Andy Lane’s Stunt class were given the chance to experience a Dodge College first: actual (sharp!) sword fighting, right in the Cinematography
Award-winning director Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Grumpy Old Men, Mystic Pizza) has been named the Spring 2014 Marion Knott Filmmaker-in-Residence at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premier film schools in the United States. The announcement was made today
We are thrilled to announce the Filmmaker-in-Residence for the Spring 2014 semester! This semester, our talented filmmaker is Emmy-winning director Donald Petrie who directed such films as Miss Congeniality, How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days , and Mystic Pizza . For a complete list of credits, please visit Mr. Petrie’s IMDb page
Professor Sally Rubin has just written to let us know that last year’s smash success from the documentary Project W program, “We Are The Land,” is being screened this weekend, in collaboration with Human Rights Watch . There is an entry fee for the screening and reception, but Chapman students can get in free! About
Every year in January, Dodge College hosts a group of selected students from the Dankook University in South Korea to engage in a cultural exchange with Chapman University students. For several weeks, about a dozen students from each campus migrate across the ocean to visit their sister school in the US and Korea, respectively.
Last week, I had the exciting chance to see our brand-new motion capture suits transform a living, breathing Dodge College student into a robot. A big robot. It was only the second day of their Interterm boot camp, “Motion Capture Fundamentals, Techniques, and Practical Exercises,” and yet I don’t think anyone in the
As anyone in any media-related field will tell you, getting exposure and developing a public presence others can relate to is simply the best route you can take to success as a young adult about to the enter the workforce. Get your work seen now: submit it to us here, or add yourself to the
We are just a couple of days away from the start of the Sundance Film Festival and I couldn’t be more excited! This year, we have several films screening at both Sundance and Slamdance that have alumni involved in the production. Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us. — Robert Redford,
Last year’s Community Voices documentary Still is making headlines, and developing a great reputation, fast. After positive reviews and great success at festivals, the film has landed in a rather odd location for a video: in a magazine! Ok, well it’s an online version of a magazine, but a ‘zine nonetheless. Check out