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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…

FRANCIS & MARSHALL Attend SPE

(St. Louis, MO – March 21-23, 2024) Riley Francis and Avery Marshall drove 650 miles from Edinboro to attend the annual conference of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE).   At the St. Louis Grand Hotel, the PennWest juniors met up with Photography Professor Natasha Kravchenko for the three-day event. Francis and Marshall attended sessions and…

Legendary Animator MUSKER Visits

(Edinboro, PA – March 15-16, 2024)  Animation legend John Musker visited the PennWest Edinboro campus as a guest artist this weekend. For over four decades, Musker has been a key creative within the Walt Disney Company, co-directing films such as The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Aladdin, The Princess & and Frog, and…

Disney Hires BUPP & HESS

(Lake Buena Vista, FL – March 10, 2024) After a rigorous application and interview process, the prestigious Disney College Program (DCP) has chosen seniors Jared Bupp and Ryan Hess to join a corps of international recruits at the Walt Disney World Resort in June – hardly a month after their anticipated PennWest graduation. Established in…

BLADES Collects Winter Trophies

(Manchester, UK; Rome, Italy; Zürich, Switzerland; Tblisi, Georgia; Perai, Malaysia – March 3, 2024) Barely three months after its premiere, Blades of Brilliance, a documentary profiling barber Josiah Stuart, has earned an impressive haul of international trophies.  The film, produced in ART3205 Non-Fiction Filmmaking, is a semi-finalist at the REWind International Film Festival in Manchester,…

Chicago Hangs KRAVCHENKO’s Work

(Chicago, IL – March 2, 2024) Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, recently selected work by PennWest Photography instructor Natasha Kravchenko for inclusion in its 25th International Open, a group exhibition on display until March 30. Kravchenko works in collage style – both real and created using Photoshop. Using various symbols such as ropes, mirror fragments, and…

MOVING PICTURES GUILD announces SP24 Productions

Join the production crews for SHADOWS and ESPIONAGE VII: The Final Hour. Interested students should gather in Doucette 119 lecture hall for a pre-production discussion 8pm, Friday February 9.  Each film will need help in their production.  Never crewed a production before?  It doesn’t matter.  Every level of experience is welcome.  Now’s the perfect chance…

Canadian Exhibit Picks KRAVCHENKO

(Edmonton, Alberta – January 27, 2024) Art Gallery of Alberta announces InFocus Photo: Identity Ether, a showcase of images which explore the concept of Self through a tapestry of cultural and societal ideologies, career, creativity, death, the psyche. PennWest Professor Natasha Kravchenko is one of eleven photographers included in the exhibition, on display until March…

Screening Closes 2023 Fall Term

(Edinboro, PA – December 7, 2023) PennWest’s Philmmakers and Animators ended the semester with a screening of completed films and other exercises in the Pogue Student Center’s Multi-Purpose Room.  The venue was initially staged to seat an audience of 252, but additional chairs were added last-minute to accommodate a turn-out of more than 300 popcorn-eating…

TAYLOR is WJET Production Assistant

(Erie, PA – November 6, 2023) Philm student Reggie Taylor has been hired by a local television station to assist in production of its live news programming. Broadcasting since 1966, WJET-TV is a television station in Erie, affiliated with the ABC network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Fox…