25FA Red Carpet Gallery
Event photos by Riley Zaney, Josh Bojarski, and Natasha Kravchenko, MFA.
Heavy Snow Can’t Stop The Showcase
(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…
KRAVCHENKO, REIHNER Exhibit @ 10|20
(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…
FULLER Addresses Animation Club
(Edinboro, PA – November 20, 2025) Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking addressed the Animation Club at its regular weekly meeting in Doucette Hall’s central auditorium. His topic was the creative symbiosis between the disciplines of Animation and Philm. Fuller contends that Animation is the “movie-est” of film’s genres. “There are Western symphonies; there are Science…
BASINGER Named Athena Honoree
(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…
Houston hosts Filmmaking Conference
(Prairie View, TX – July 22-26, 2025) PennWest professor Brian Fuller was among 250 filmmaking instructors from around the world who met outside Houston this week for the University Film and Video Association‘s 79th annual conference. This year’s gathering at Prairie View A&M University marks the first time in UFVA’s 79-year history that an Historically…
Cinema Fest Considers New Venue
(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…
Laurels
Skills training is the chief intended outcome of class assignments. Yet, since 2019, the following student projects have gone on to succeed in festivals and competitions. Through awards and public exhibition, graduates build impressive résumés and professional reels. What Ends the Story?a D&D campaign concludes (doc, 2 mins) Planet-CinemaNew York, New York2026 Official Selection London…
Disney, BeeHive Interns Address Guild
(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…
FRANCIS Gives Artist’s Talk
(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: …