Tag Archive for "news" - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

Dodge College Moves Up to #6 Spot in The Hollywood Reporter’s Annual Ranking of Top 25 Film Schools Maintains ‘Top 10’ Status for 5th Consecutive Year

August 16, 2017 by Rogers and Cowan | Press Releases

The Hollywood Reporter’s annual ranking of “The Top 25 Film Schools in America” has placed Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at number six (6), noting the rising achievements of the school’s alumni; its renowned faculty and guest speakers; state-of-the-art facilities, international programs, and steadfast endorsements from some of the biggest power

Take the Leap into TV with Our Unique M.F.A. in Television Writing and Producing

August 15, 2017 by Dodge College Staff | TV Writing / Production

We keep hearing about movie actors making the leap to TV, from Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, Jane Fonda, Matthew McConaughey, Susan Sarandon and a host of others. And so many film directors have made the move as well; David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Baz Luhrmann and Spike Lee, etc., are also working

Film Festival Kudos for August

August 14, 2017 by Kevin Harman | Kudos!

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

Grad Thesis Film NIGHT CALL is a Semi-Finalist for the NBCUniversal Short Film Fest!

July 26, 2017 by Meagan O'Shea | Kudos!

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

The Caucus Foundation Awards Grants to Chapman Filmmakers

July 21, 2017 by Meagan O'Shea | Kudos!

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

4 Chapman films selected as 2017 Student Academy Awards Semi-Finalists

July 19, 2017 by Meagan O'Shea | News

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.

STRANGER THINGS -created by Matt and Ross Duffer’07 -nominated for 18 Emmy’s

July 14, 2017 by Meagan O'Shea | News

The Netflix series Stranger Things, created by alumni Matt Duffer’07 and Ross Duffer’07, received a whopping 18 nominations for the 69th Annual Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The series tied with FX’s FEUD (Bette and Joan) as one of the most nominated shows for this year’s awards, following Saturday Night

Film Festival Kudos for July

July 13, 2017 by Kevin Harman | Kudos!

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

Alumni Spotlight – Mark Miller (BFA/Film Production ’06)

July 4, 2017 by Sorrel Geddes | Alumni Spotlight

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 Mark Miller (BFA/Film Production ’06) who wrote the comic book series New Testament with Boom! Studios

Congrats to our 2017 College Television Awards Winners!

May 25, 2017 by Meagan O'Shea | Kudos!

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