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Heavy Snow Can’t Stop The Showcase

(Edinboro, PA – December 11, 2025) Despite the challenges of severe winter weather, the Showcase of Philm and Animation welcomed moviegoers to Cole Memorial Auditorium Thursday night. The screening marks an important move for the event from the Pogue Student Center. It’s been relocated to the larger venue to accommodate capacity crowds typically frowned upon…

FULLER Addresses Animation Club

(Edinboro, PA – November 20, 2025) Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking addressed the Animation Club at its regular weekly meeting in Doucette Hall’s central auditorium. His topic was the creative symbiosis between the disciplines of Animation and Philm. Fuller contends that Animation is the “movie-est” of film’s genres. “There are Western symphonies; there are Science…

BASINGER Named Athena Honoree

(Erie, PA – September 9, 2025) PennWest Edinboro senior Taney Basinger was recognized Tuesday with other honorees during a luncheon at Erie’s Ambassador Conference Center.  Basinger is this year’s Edinboro nominee for the ATHENA Young Professional Award.  The award, an extension of the internationally renowned ATHENA Leadership Award, honors outstanding young college students who demonstrate…

Houston hosts Filmmaking Conference

(Prairie View, TX – July 22-26, 2025) PennWest professor Brian Fuller was among 250 filmmaking instructors from around the world who met outside Houston this week for the University Film and Video Association‘s 79th annual conference.  This year’s gathering at Prairie View A&M University marks the first time in UFVA’s 79-year history that an Historically…

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…

FRANCIS Gives Artist’s Talk

(Baron-Forness Library, Edinboro, PA – March 27, 2025) Thanks to an endowment celebrating the life of a Jewelry and Metals student, The Michael V. Gmitter Memorial Scholarship Exhibition has become the most highly-anticipated showcase of student art in the Edinboro calendar year. 2025’s juried display featured the work of two members of PennWest’s Philm tribe: …

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…