(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…
(Erie, PA – November 21, 2025) A Friday reception at the 10|20 Collective on Holland Street christened two new collections: Recess, a mixed-media show upstairs and a Photo Club group exhibition on the main level. A PennWest professor and an alum both hung work in the latter. Philm Professor Natasha Kravchenko offered a trio of…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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: …
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
