Starting with Tom Teller’s sci-fi epic Icarus today, we hope to highlight some of the best work from our students releasing online for public viewing. The film, Tom’s spring 2016 undergraduate thesis, has had an incredible run on the film festival circuit. Starting with the Academy Award-Qualifying Show Me Shorts Festival in October 2016, traveling
Tom Teller’s ICARUS will be playing the 2nd Annual Dead in Decatur Film Festival from October 13th-15th (http://deadindecatur.com/), 17th Annual Trieste Science+Fiction Festival in Italy from October 31st-November 5th (http://www.sciencefictionfestival.org/), the 5th Annual Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival in New York from November 3rd-12th (http://buffalodreamsfilmfest.com/), the 14th Annual Les Utopiales in France from November 1st-6th
I was asked for a few words on my experience as the writer of It’s Just A Gun, which recently screened at the Telluride Film Festival. I agreed, without a clue of what to write about, but was encouraged to focus on how my time at Chapman contributed to this film. It’s obvious that, had
Daniel Drummond’s A FOREMAN has advanced to the Finalist stage of the Student Academy Awards! In 2015, Daniel became the first Chapman student to win a Student Academy Award for his short film CHIAROSCURO . Ceylan Carhoglu & Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST has been selected to be featured in the prestigious The Wrap’s Online ShortList
The Chapman filmmaker accolades keep pouring in this summer. We recently learned that Amanda Renee Knox’s 2017 graduate thesis film Night Call is a semi-finalist for the 12th Annual NBCUniversal Short Film Festival! The film competed with more than 4,200 submissions to be one of 16 semi-finalists selected. “The Night Call team is deeply honored to
From the Editor: This spring, The Caucus for Producers, Writers, Directors awarded three of five grants to Chapman filmmakers: Amanda Renee Knox’17 (dir. Night Call) and Paul Mowry’17 (writ./dir. Marty and Stacy’s Pixelated Dream Show) received grants on behalf of the Annenberg Foundation, and Ashton Avila’17 (writ./dir. I Got You Babe) received one of The Caucus Foundation
Four films have been selected for the Oscar-Qualifying 35th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival including Ashton Avila’s I GOT YOU BABE, Grant Moore’s PICKLE, Tom Teller’s ICARUS, Gareth Burghes’ LIFE & ATROPHY in a World Premiere Five of our films have been accepted to the 36th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival in Colorado including Brian Robau’s
We are pleased to announce that three Dodge College projects took home Student Emmy’s at the 38th Annual College Television Awards ceremony held on May 24 at the Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center: CHILDREN’S PROGRAM Rebecca Prolman (BFA/Creative Producing ’16) and Camille Houphouet-Boigny (BFA/Creative Producing ’16) A Taylor Story COMMERCIAL Noah Rashba
At the 89th Annual Academy Awards, you likely saw some familiar faces – yes, our own Student Academy Award winners Brenna Malloy and Brian Robau were invited to act as onstage talent wranglers, making sure all of Hollywood’s A-list talent made their cues correctly: We have FIVE films in the 18th Newport Beach Film Festival
Ceylan Carhoglu & Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST will be playing the 21st Annual John Hopkins Film Festival in Baltimore, Maryland next month (http://www.jhufilmfest.com/) Jack Sample’s BOMBIE will be playing the 7th Annual Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival in Kathmandu (http://www.hrfilms.org/) Nancy Liu’s ANGELTOWN won the Best Student Film award at the 13th
At the 64th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Golden Reel Awards, our students have a whopping FIVE of the 8 nominees this year for the Verna Fields Student Award including (http://variety.com/2017/artisans/in-contention/mpse-sound-editing-nominees-2017-full-list-1201971642/) Taylor Scherer for Brodin Plett’s EDEN Gerry Vazquez for Tom Teller’s ICARUS Xiang Li for Brian Robau’s IT’S JUST A GUN Peiqi Duan
Screenings and Awards Lin Wang’s DEATH IN A DAY has been officially selected for the 46th Annual Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist (http://molodist.kiev.ua/) and the 14th Annual London Short Film Festival (http://shortfilms.org.uk/) Shelby Baldock’s FACELESS, BUT REMEMBERED has been officially selected for the 19th Annual Indie Memphis Film Festival (https://festival2016.indiememphis.com/schedule/57e952f1801b1c030079143a) and the 5th Annual South