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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…

Atlanta Hosts Boro Journalists

(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…

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,…

WILTON interns with PFO

(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…

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…

Levi Lewis

LEWIS Interns with Horror Film

(Meadville, PA – May 5, 2023) Crawford County residents have long been intrigued by tales of Radio Tower mutants.  Senior Philmmaker Levi Lewis joined a crew of 150 people shooting Pig Hill, a horror feature based on the Meadville legend.  Lewis interned as a production assistant reporting to assistant directors.  They managed the film’s operational and…

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…

HESS is After Effects certified

(Brecksville, OH – September 16, 2021) An Applied Media Arts major concentrating in Film and Video, Ryan Hess this week earned the designation of Adobe Certified Professional in After Effects. Introduced in 1998, Adobe After Effects has become an industry standard tool for motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing, used in the post-production processes of…