Category Archives: Alumni

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…

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…

Jalil Sadool

SADOOL Encourages Philmmakers & Animators

(Edinboro, PA – September 29, 2023) Graduate Jalil Sadool, an animator who has worked for visual effects companies including WETA Digital, Dreamworks, and Rhythm and Hues, returned to Edinboro with excitement as Grand Marshal of the 2023 homecoming parade.  While on campus, Sadool reached out to current students and faculty in multiple events and venues.…

Producer WELSH returns to the Boro

(Edinboro, PA – September 6, 2023) Wednesday morning, Edinboro graduate Pat “Shaggy” Welsh addressed students of ART 3205, Professor Brian Fuller’s Non-Fiction Filmmaking course. An Erie native, Welsh is co-owner of 360 Studios in Austin, Texas. For more than 20 years, 360 Studios has been a full-service production company that specializes in high-quality lifestyle, product,…

TWISTING honored by Two Festivals

(Kings Mountain, NC & Waldwick, NJ – June 26, 2023) The Real to Reel International Film Festival today announced the program it will screen for North Carolina audiences in August of this year.  Twisting Memories, a documentary made in the FA22 Non-Fiction Filmmaking course, is among the roster of official selections.  Twisting Memories showcases the…

REIHNER snags Choose Internship

(Erie, PA – May 8, 2023) Edinboro junior and Philm Lab Aide KT Reihner has been awarded a paid summer internship with Erie’s Free to Choose Network.  Free to Choose is a non-profit organization that produces broadcast and web-delivered videos which educate viewers in economic and political theory.  Much of their current work grows out…

COPELAND’s Horror Script Triumphs

(Provo, UT; Portland, OR; Gorizia, Italy; and London, UK – October 12, 2022) At an after-hours ceremony in London’s famed British Museum, the British Horror Film Festival conferred its top screenwriting honor on Edinboro alum Lee Copeland. Rooted in traditional tales of creatures corrupted by humans, Oread is a folk/horror story about friends who reconnect…

HO chosen for Disney Exec program

(Los Angeles, CA – December 15, 2021) Alex Ho, a 2019 Applied Media Arts graduate who concentrated in Film and Video, was accepted this week to Walt Disney Television’s Executive Incubator program. One of only eight chosen from thousands of applicants, Ho will relocate to Los Angeles after the first of the year. Ho will…