Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts is strengthening its grip on an influential position among the best film schools in the country, the latest national rankings show. Dodge College has earned the...
Alumni of Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts were well represented as the 2022 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced on Tuesday. The Duffer Brothers’ megahit science fiction series “Stranger...
On a recent Friday, cameras rolled across a vast stretch of treeless tundra. By Saturday, the setting had shifted to an elegant ballroom, and then on Sunday, to the far reaches of space. All without filmmakers ever...
After 18 frenetic months documenting Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, Drew Heskett ’14 barely had time to catch his breath before opening the door to a new opportunity – as official White House videographer. The...
Writer Julia Walton will always remember the night she walked across the Chapman University campus, headed toward that nerve-inducing rite of passage for creative writing students – the workshop. In those small groups...
It all started with short films starring cartoon animals. While their film school peers in a Visual Storytelling course were crafting sensitive tales full of dream sequences and dark storylines, Graham Towers ‘08...
Just four miles from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, young filmmakers are learning to bring their stories to life through the Youth Cinema Project at Santa Ana High School. Chapman University...
Dodge College continues its climb into the rarefied reaches of national film school rankings with the release of The Wrap’s Top 50 Film Schools issue. The No. 4 placement achieved is the film school's highest ever.
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