Department of Visual & Media Arts News

Magee nominated for Oscar, featured in Boston Herald

Visual and Media Arts faculty member and screenwriter David Magee is featured in a Boston Herald article about his Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Life of Pi. 

McTeigue to appear at L.A. film festival

  The 13th annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles is scheduled for Thursday, February 28, at 7:30 pm at the Harmony Gold Preview House.

Students take professors to lunch

President Lee Pelton has launched a new initiative that encourages students to take faculty members out to lunch as a way to build camaraderie.

Sudan survivor talks to students

Sudan civil war survivor John Bul Dau held a question-and-answer session February 5 at the Bright Family Screening Room.

Emerson Engagement Lab featured in The Salem News

“What’s the Point?,” a social-media based video game designed by Emerson College’s Engagement Lab, headed up by VMA Assistant Professor Eric Gordon, to help city planners gather feedback on Salem’s Point neighborhood, launched January 28, The Salem News reported yesterday.

Gianvito’s film premieres in U.S., at MoMA

Following international premieres in Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, Denmark, Portugal, Austria and Croatia, VMA Professor John Gianvito’s film Far From Afghanistan will premiere in the U.S. at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York at the Museum’s annual Documentary Fortnight, February 15 through March 4, 2013.

'Burning Man' comes alive

A new, short film by David Shawl '07 on the 2012 Burning Man event shows how artists create massive structures only to be burned to a crisp when the event is over.

Freeman '14 featured on ABC News

Visual and Media Arts student Alex Freeman was featured in an ABC News story about an ex-madam who runs a brothel for the disabled.