(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…
(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 – 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…
(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…
(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…
(Atlanta, GA – November 1, 2023) The Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association welcomed students from around the world to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta for the nation’s largest gathering of college journalists, media students, and their advisors. Philm student KT Reihner joined a delegation of attendees from PennWest Edinboro. For four days, students chose from…
(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.…
(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,…
(Pittsburgh, PA – June 13, 2023) “The most surprising thing I’ve learned so far is just how much school has prepared me for the professional space,” says senior Philmmaker Mark Wilton. “The editing and the organization that goes with it has been very comparable to the work we did in class.” Wilton is spending the…
(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…
