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Cinema Fest Considers New Venue

(Cole Memorial Auditorium, Edinboro, PA – May 8, 2025)  Some 400 people attended last week’s 2025 Dave Weinkauf Film Festival.  Its three-hour program tested the patience and comfort of the seventy-five or so folks who stood in the rear and along the walls of the Multi-Purpose Room, largest meeting space in the Frank G. Pogue…

Disney, BeeHive Interns Address Guild

(Doucette Hall, Edinboro, PA – April 24, 2025) Senior Jacob Feiock recounted his time with the Disney College Program over dinner with the Moving Pictures Guild Wednesday night. Feiock worked in a paid internship with the company’s Florida theme park during the summer and fall of 2024. Feiock’s presentation began with an informative history of…

Philmmakers Earn 100 Trophies

(Doucette Hall, Edinboro, PA – March 20, 2025) This month, PennWest’s Digital Filmmaking and Photography (aka “Philm”) program crossed an important threshold.  In the last six years, films made by its students have earned more than one hundred festival and competition accolades. “There’s no shame in reshooting scenes if you’re not satisfied with them,” said…

Fourteen Join Boro Philm Tribe

(Doucette Hall, Edinboro, PA – November 15, 2024) PennWest’s Digital Filmmaking and Photography (Philm) Concentration is proud to announce the latest group of students to successfully negotiate its candidacy requirements: Zoe Barron, Joshua Bojarski, Caitlin Boone, Xander Brzezinski, Shane Cannon, Abbie Dugan, Anton Partusch, Naomi Polito, Aidan Rauscher, Jacob Sukhenko, Tanner Tomak, Kaden Velasquez, and…

MPG Hosts Interns Dinner

(Doucette Hall, Edinboro, PA – October 08, 2024) Senior Bryan Mendez Perez was the first of four Philm interns who shared summer experiences with members of the Moving Pictures Guild over dinner Tuesday night.  He began by telling of his return to Puerto Rico to work on two films, a social media ad, and multiple…

REIHNER Offers Optical Marvels

(Loveland Hall, Edinboro, PA – September 22, 2024) A Sunday reception opens Optical Marvels, a show of proto-cinematic devices inspired by 19th-century parlor amusements.  Toys like the thaumatrope and phenakistiscope were popular entertainments which depend on the ability of the human eye to retain two images at once.  Philm senior KT Reihner explores this “persistence…

ART & ATHLETICS Host Aloha Tailgate

(Sox Harrison Stadium, Edinboro, PA – August 29, 2024) Edinboro’s storied Art program has long celebrated the start of each school year with Aloha, a rush event for the department’s many clubs. This year’s Aloha coincided with the football team’s first home game (on new AstroTurf with tartan end zones!) and the recent hiring of…

FULLER Presents A.I. Screenwriting

(Cleveland, OH – August 01, 2024) Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking Brian Fuller addressed a session of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) this week.  Cleveland State University was this year’s host, choosing the theme “Rock On: Urban Resilience, Cinema, and Sustainability.” Fuller moderated a Thursday panel entitled “The End of Creativity?  The Pitfalls…

MARSHALL Shows Photos

(Meadville, PA – July 19, 2024) Meadville’s Hatch Hollow is a fine art retail and mixed use coworking space which rotates exhibitions of local art every 6-8 weeks.  A Friday happy hour reception from 5-8 pm on July 19 welcomes the work of Edinboro photography student Avery Marshall to the comfortably-appointed gallery at 245 Chestnut…

REIHNER Earns Photo Accolades

(Kolkata, West Bengal, India – March 30, 2024) India’s Sundarban International Film Festival (SIFF) recognizes art films and photography with themes of environmental awareness.  The festival, boasting a month-long exhibition calendar, is particularly interested in furthering the cause of independent image-makers.  SIFF judges recently announced Eyes of the Hunter and Watercolors, photos taken by Philm…