(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…
(Tamil Nadu, India & Pinewood, England – February 14, 2023) In a hub of South India’s rich Tamil cinema, a PennWest student documentary is earning deserved recognition for women in arts. The Kollywood International Film Festival has this month named Alla Prima its Best Women’s Film. This follows an Official Selection designation by England’s Lift-Off…
(Allentown, PA; New York, NY; Ely, MN and Calcutta, India – December 22, 2022) Barely two weeks after its Edinboro premiere, a student documentary has earned a place in the roster of films that will be shown early next year in India at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. Organizers have recognized the film with…
(West Chester, PA – October 21, 2022) Mark Wilton’s short story A Pool of Blood won a flash fiction competition sponsored by the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU). “I found out I won while I was on set shooting Drunk History, the narrative film for fall 2022.” Wilton presented the story at EAPSU’s…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(New York, NY – May 25, 2021) Assistant Professor of Digital Filmmaking Brian Fuller today was honored with a Silver Telly Award for ART100 Videoscape. The film features work by faculty and graduates of the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s celebrated Art Department. ART100 Videoscape was designed to be projection-mapped in four synchronized panels onto irregular…
(Laguna Beach, CA and Cookeville, TN – January 15, 2021) A Tennessee PBS affiliate recognized Edinboro Film & Video student Kain Winiecke with a bronze award in WCTE’s Student Film Festival. Winiecke’s short documentary, Good Curling, won third prize in the festival’s non-fiction category. The honor comes in tandem with a second place win at…
(Pinewood Studios, UK – April 3, 2020) Detecting Deception: The Polygraph Process, produced in December 2019 by students in Edinboro’s Film & Video program, has been selected for screening by this month’s Lift-Off Sessions. The Lift-Off Network coordinates 11 global festivals from its headquarters at the famed Pinewood Studios in the UK. Made by students…
