RSVP for this year’s event. Parking, food, and beverage are FREE with registration. Dodge College’s annual Leo Freedman Foundation First Cut Screening promotes a selection of top films from the previous year as determined by a panel of distinguished alumni and industry representatives. Please join us as we screen our 2018 selections on Wednesday, October
Supporting female filmmakers in a male dominated industry In a time when men in power are finally being held responsible for their abusive behavior, it’s more important than ever to launch female filmmakers into leadership roles in the industry. As a gay man, I sometimes feel stuck in the middle of how to support women and
Please join us for our Community Voices Documentary Film Screening on Thursday, December 7 at 7 p.m. in Folino Theater inside Marion Knott Studios (283 N. Cypress St., Orange). A Q&A with the filmmakers and a reception to follow. No RSVP necessary. Seating is first come. Community Voices is a social issue documentary film program that
Monday, November 6, 2017, 4 p.m. Cloobeck Screening Room, Digital Media Arts Center Q&A moderated by Professor Nam Lee Attend a screening of Spa Night (2016) written and directed by Andrew Ahn. It premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance film festival and won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance
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
“To have someone feel like they’ve experienced the same thing as you, that’s what we’re doing as filmmakers,” Oscar-winning director Mark Andrews (Brave) reflected to a room of burgeoning storytellers in professor Bill Kroyer’s History and Aesthetics of Digital Arts class. The Pixar director provided a live storyboarding demonstration, presenting a concept storyboard for Disney•Pixar’s The Incredibles and
When making a biographical film, it can be a struggle to artfully balance authenticity and movie magic. Location can make or break this balancing act and takes hours or pre-production time to achieve the overarching look and feel. “It’s not showing off, it was preparing [the set] to be as beautiful as the acting was,”
If you ask someone what a second unit on a film set is, they probably won’t know — that, or they won’t care. Whatever the reason for its obscurity, a second unit is a collection of underdogs, and that’s exactly what compelled director Ankush Khemani ‘18, producer Melina Coto ‘18 and writer Nick DiLorenzo ‘18
Join us for a special screening of Assassination (2016) followed by a conversation with director Choi Dong-hoon on Monday, October 9, 2017 at 4 p.m. in the Cloobeck Screening Room, Digital Media Arts Center. Seating is first come. Attend a screening of the South Korean blockbuster film Assassination (2015) written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. This
Join us for a special screening of THE WORLD OF US (2016) with Director Yoon Ga-eun! Monday, October, 2, 2017, 4 p.m. in the Cloobeck Screening Room, Digital Media Arts Center. Reception to follow. Seating is first come. *Best Youth Feature Film, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2016 *Best New Director, Blue Dragon Award 2016 This screening
Happy Hunting, written and directed by alumni Joe Dietsch (BFA/FP ’09) and Louie Gibson (BFA/FP ’11) is screening at the AMC Orange 30 beginning this Friday, September 22. Showtimes are 11:40 a.m. and 2:10 p.m.! The movie is also available on VOD the same day. Read the official release below, and check out the film! Waterstone
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