December 2, 2013
2 Chapman films screen this week at the Santa Cruz Film Festival in California: Light Me Up (Derek Dolechek & Ryan Walton) and Straight Down Low (Zach Wechter).
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.
Editor John Baldino (MFA ’09) had been working on NBC’s “The Voice” for three years in 2019 when another veteran editor, Nick Don Vito ’87, returned to the show after a 15-season absence. It didn’t take long for them to realize that they were both Chapman University graduates. “We were just discussing our backgrounds a