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ALLA PRIMA is Best Women’s Film

(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…

Calcutta accolades for PUMP-KING

(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…

WILTON Wins Fiction Award

(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…

COPELAND’s Horror Script Triumphs

(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…

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…

VIDEOSCAPE wins Telly Silver

(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…