On Tuesday, September 23, the professors of FS-244, History of Film, will be presenting students with an unique experience. They will be screening The Hoodlum , directed by Sidney Franklin in 1919, on 35mm with live, musical accompaniment. The screening will also feature guest speakers Elaina Archer of the Mary Pickford Foundation and Mike
This past Saturday, September 6, was the first ever Orange County Excellence in Journalism Day, held right here at Chapman University. The event, coordinated in part by Professor Peter Weitzner, was meant to help excite the journalistic world. “We really wanted to show that journalism, in all formats and genres, is still thriving across the
On Saturday, May 24, we said good-bye to many students as they graduated from Dodge College. Proud family members and friends packed Wilson Field to help celebrate the accomplishments of the graduates and to wish them well as they embark on the rest of their lives. By 6PM, the students began to file in, taking
Last night, the 2014 Cecil Awards took place and it was a night filled with lots of laughs, an impressive show, and hard earned achievements. Guests started to arrive for the tented pre-party in Dodge College’s parking lot around 5:30 PM. It was here that they got their first taste of the night’s #Limitless
The entire list of nominations for the 2014 Cecil Awards are now available! Please take a moment to check out the nominations below, and see if some of your favorites made the cut! And don’t forget to buy your tickets for the 2014 Cecil Awards show now! Best Production Design – Undergraduate Alex Tomko for
Dodge College and Universal Pictures invite you to a pre-release screening of A Million Ways to Die in the West (directed by Seth MacFarlane) on Wednesday, May 28th at 7:00 p.m. in Folino Theater. A Million Ways to Die in the West, in theaters May 30th, 2014, starring Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, and Neil Patrick Harris.
“You don’t know someone’s story just by looking at them. You have to get to know them to really know what they are going through.” Those words, spoken by one of the students in the Community Voices program, rang especially true after viewing the six films featured at the screening this past Monday night. The
Please join us for our Community Voices Documentary Film Screening on Monday, May 12, at 7:00 p.m. in Folino Theater. Community Voices is a social issue documentary film program that 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
On Monday, May 5 Dodge College is excited to welcome Chris Buck, the director of the box office hit Frozen. Buck will discuss his work on the film, screen clips and discuss his experience in the animation industry. With over twenty years of experience, Buck directed Frozen after working in animation, art direction, story and
Dodge College and Universal Pictures invite you to a pre-release screening of Neighbors (dir. Nicholas Stoller) on Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. in Folino Theater. Neighbors, in theaters May 9, 2014, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne. A comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live
Bill Kroyer and animation director Bob Balser invite you to join them on a magical mystery tour as they present the newly restored digital print of The Yellow Submarine (1968) on Saturday, April 26 at 1:00 p.m. in Folino Theater. Balser will discuss the iconic, ground-breaking Beatles-inspired animated feature film, with behind-the-scenes stories and personal
Drafthouse Films, Snoot Entertainment, and Dodge College invite you for a screening of E.L. Katz’s black comedy Cheap Thrills, on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Folino Theater. A darkly comic thriller, Cheap Thrills follows the one-night descent of two friends participating in a series of escalating paid dares to entertain a wealthy couple with