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…
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…
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…
Philmmakers Earn 100 Trophies
(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…
REIHNER Earns Photo Accolades
(Kolkata, West Bengal, India – March 30, 2024) India’s Sundarban International Film Festival (SIFF) recognizes art films and photography with themes of environmental awareness. The festival, boasting a month-long exhibition calendar, is particularly interested in furthering the cause of independent image-makers. SIFF judges recently announced Eyes of the Hunter and Watercolors, photos taken by Philm…
Legendary Animator MUSKER Visits
(Edinboro, PA – March 15-16, 2024) Animation legend John Musker visited the PennWest Edinboro campus as a guest artist this weekend. For over four decades, Musker has been a key creative within the Walt Disney Company, co-directing films such as The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Aladdin, The Princess & and Frog, and…
BLADES Collects Winter Trophies
(Manchester, UK; Rome, Italy; Zürich, Switzerland; Tblisi, Georgia; Perai, Malaysia – March 3, 2024) Barely three months after its premiere, Blades of Brilliance, a documentary profiling barber Josiah Stuart, has earned an impressive haul of international trophies. The film, produced in ART3205 Non-Fiction Filmmaking, is a semi-finalist at the REWind International Film Festival in Manchester,…