A web series about the aftermath of alien abductions, a comedy pilot about a young mix-raced woman trying to make it in Los Angeles, and a feature-length screenplay about Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage won the top prizes at Emerson College Los Angeles’s fifth annual PitchFest competition.
A photo gallery of Vision of Television: Early Experimental Artists’ TV Broadcasts at Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery.
Two Emerson College alumni celebrated Halloween this year by screening their bone-chilling horror films at the Witch City Horror Film Festival in the haunting town of Salem, Massachusetts.
Leave No Trace, produced by Senior Distinguished Producer-in-Residence Linda Reisman, was nominated for three 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature.
A script that Jasraj Padhye, MFA ’18, originally wrote for Visual and Media Arts (VMA) Associate Professor Marc Fields’ class became not only his graduate thesis film, but also the winner of an audience award at the International Student Film & Video Festival in Beijing last month.
Porsha Olayiwola is a first-year MFA in Creative Writing student studying poetry. Her project, entitled, Black & Ugly As Ever, is a choreopoem that explores “what it means to truly make space for oneself.”
Professor Megan Marshall published a piece in The New Yorker, “The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War,” about her grandparents’ time in Paris during World War I.
Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery will take a look at the development of broadcast television as an artistic medium from the 1950s to the late 1970s in its latest exhibit, Vision of Television: Early Experimental Artists’ TV Broadcasts, opening Thursday, November 15.
Darrin Butters, who worked as an animator on Disney blockbusters Tangled, Frozen, and Zootopia, gave students an inside look at the soon-to-be-released Ralph Breaks the Internet Wednesday, November 7, in the Bill Bordy Theater.
Emerson Stage worked with faculty and students from the College’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) department to stage two sensory-friendly performances of Flora & Ulysses.