Share your career path with us – How did you get where you are now? In my final year of the MFA Production Design program, John Chichester encouraged our graduating class to apply to the Art Directors Guild (Local 800) Apprenticeship Program. After the rigorous application process of portfolio work, essays and multiple interviews (simultaneously
We have a lot of really exciting updates since our last one, but I’ll start with the Student Academy Awards. The Semi-Finalists have been announced and 4 of our students have advanced to that stage of the competition. There were 1,615 films submitted for consideration and only 81 made it to the Semi-Final stage making
You’ve probably heard of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s latest venture, Quibi, by now. Quibi (a portmanteau of “quick bites”), set to launch in April 2020, will house serialized scripted and unscripted content as well as news and sports. “It will release fresh excerpts of content daily, to be watched during pockets of free time
On Monday, January 14th, the Television Academy Foundation announced nominees for the 39th College Television Awards which recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs. Among the 25 nominees were 3 projects from Dodge College. In the Drama Series Category: Baby I’m Yours Marisa Messina, Producer Hadley Hillel, Director, Writer Noah Feinberg, Writer Esta es tu Cuba John
Alumni met at Phase Two in Culver City on December 1, 2018 to discuss hiring insights in their respective fields. The event had 75 alumni split into groups relating to their current or aspiring positions and questions were provided by individuals in those groups. The groups met for 25 minutes before being split to meet
As films from both current students and alumni continue to venture out on the circuit, here is the latest on the festivlas they have played and the awards they have won: Erin Lau (MFA/FP ’18) – THE MOON AND THE NIGHT Official Selection of the Oxford Film Festival and Finalist for the Artist Vodka Film
Many freshmen entering the Animation and Visual Effects program at Dodge College this year were born the year The Matrix was released—in effect, they have been surrounded by stunning visual effects their entire lives. Just as Keanu Reeves (Neo) fights to find his way out of the matrix, today’s aspiring young filmmakers are often fighting
Zelie Dember-Slack’s (MFA/ER ’17) film, The Sweetest Heir, had its world premier screening at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase Film Festival on May 9th, 2018 where it won Best Family FIlm. The Sweetest Heir is an award-winning family comedy about Brittany Thompson, 9, who collects and restores old jewelry boxes. While restoring one, she discovers a seal inside a
Every so often, we’ll be spotlighting alumni and what they are up to these days. These Q&A sessions will give you a bit of insight into where the world has taken them since graduation. This week, the spotlight is on Kennedy Phillips (MFA/ER ’13) who has created and directed an audio fantasy comedy titled Magus Elgar. Magus
We are pleased to announce that four Chapman films have advanced to the Semi-Finalist stage of the 2017 Student Academy Awards: Beginning of the Road – Graduate Documentary Thesis Film (dir. Jeremiah Thompson) Dempsey the Diabetic Superhero – Community Voices Documentary Film (dir. Kendall Goldberg, Greyson Horst, Rocky Pajarito, Caroline Roffe) A Foreman – Graduate Non-Thesis Film (dir.