Last week, Dodge College hosted Community Voices 2015. These documentaries to create change are part of a program that teaches students ways to tell creative, non-fiction stories about social issues in the Orange County area and its surrounding communities. Under the guidance of documentary professor Sally Rubin, the students are paired up with local non-profit
Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, is responding to growing student interest in documentary filmmaking with a distinctive Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Filmmaking focusing on feature-length documentaries. The M.F.A. program offers a unique curriculum building on interdisciplinary research
Dodge College and director James Keach (Walk the Line) invites you to join us for a screening of the Glen Campbell documentary I’ll Be Me on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. in Folino Theater. In 2011, music legend Glen Campbell set out on an unprecedented tour across America. He thought it would last 5
Applications are now open for our fully funded documentary program here at Dodge—Community Voices: stories to create change. The mission of COMMUNITY VOICES is to create short, compelling documentaries about stories here in our Southern California backyard, with a focus on films with a relevant social issue at their core. Films will be given $5000
Recognizing a growing interest in documentary films by students as well as audiences, Dodge College faculty have designed a new M.F.A. in Documentary Film to launch next year. The M.F.A. in Documentary Film at Dodge College is a unique, 2-year documentary program that will focus on the study and creation of feature-length documentaries. Students will
Professor Andy Erish has some news that he hates to break to you: everything you know about Hollywood is wrong. For over 100 years, the story of Hollywood has been muddled with half-truths and fabrications, with a single name being replaced in the history books time and time again by individuals looking to get
“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
Ben Mullinkosson (BFA/Film Prod. ’13) and Kristelle Laroche (BFA/TBJ. ’14) are skating their way to festival success with their short documentary film The Pink Helmet Posse, which debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Made as part of Dodge College’s Project W: Stories of Women Creating Change documentary program which creates female-empowering films, The
Starting in Fall 2014, the current B.F.A. in Television and Broadcast Journalism will be divided into two degrees: a B.F.A. in Television Writing and Producing and a B.F.A. in News and Documentary. The courses will remain the same, but the new names will clarify what course of study students choose among news, documentary and narrative
Professor Sally Rubin has just written to let us know that last year’s smash success from the documentary Project W program, “We Are The Land,” is being screened this weekend, in collaboration with Human Rights Watch . There is an entry fee for the screening and reception, but Chapman students can get in free! About
Last year’s Community Voices documentary Still is making headlines, and developing a great reputation, fast. After positive reviews and great success at festivals, the film has landed in a rather odd location for a video: in a magazine! Ok, well it’s an online version of a magazine, but a ‘zine nonetheless. Check out