November 14, 2012
Alexander Gaeta’s film Shoot the Moon won Best Student Film at the Rockport Film Festival in Texas last week. It also screens this week at the Munich Int’l Festival of Film Schools in Germany and at theBadalona Film Festival in Spain.
The 51st Student Academy Awards were handed out in London, with three Olympic-style medal placements announced in the shorts categories of animations, live-action and documentary. Dodge alum Aaron Johnson ’24, received the Silver Award for his documentary short “The 17 Percent.”
Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts has secured the No. 4 spot in THE WRAP’s Top 50 film schools rankings. This is the college’s fifth year in a row at No. 4, a position it also holds in The Hollywood Reporter’s national rankings.