Realizing that our community continues to recover from the sadness and shock over the loss of a member of our undergraduate community, I nevertheless feel compelled to share that we also recently lost a member of our graduate student community.
Some of Emerson’s biggest names in screenwriting, producing, and documentary filmmaking will premiere their latest projects at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival next month.
Ömer Yilmaz, a second-year Visual and Media Arts graduate student, knows first-hand the devastation wrought by the 7.8- and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes that hit southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria last Monday.
Daily breakfast talks gave students the opportunity to hear from filmmakers about their festival experiences.
Visual and Media Arts professor Cristina Kotz Cornejo spoke to WCVB after Oscar nominations were announced – her former student Daniel Kwan ’10, alongside friend and co-director Daniel Scheinert ’09, lead the field as their film Everything, Everywhere, All at Once landed 11 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
The film landed 11 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for Kwan and Scheinert
Katelyn Reddy ’24 and classmates co-curated one of Emerson Contemporary’s fall 2022 exhibitions through the class “Curating Contemporary Art.” Reddy, from Long Island, described the process and her takeaways.
“To have such a prominent work and honor people of color on the Common, it’s not a gesture. It’s powerful.”
The fellowship will allow Fields to develop new content for The Banjo Project: Interactive Narratives from the African Diaspora to the Folk Revival, 1680-1980.
Kwan and Scheinert won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
