3 Emerson Students Finalists for mtvU's Best Filmmaker on Campus Award
JD Marlow, Chris Cullari and Chris Faulisi are part of the top 10 finalists for mtvU’s Best Filmmaker on Campus Award. All three students are film majors at Emerson; Marlow is a senior, Cullari a junior, and Faulisi a sophomore.
Emerson is the only college with more than two representatives in the contest (Columbia University has two). Over 2000 students entered the contest, and four Emerson students made it to the top 25. The students’ films can be viewed and be voted on.
Emerson Student's Photography Featured in Weekly Dig
Emerson senior, Christopher Goodhue, had his photograph published in the March 26th issue of the Weekly Dig. Goodhue, a New Media major, is interning with the publication.
Emerson graduate student Kai-Jae Wang recently won the award for Best Director at the SunDeis Film Festival for her film In Retrograde Motion. In addition to winning her award, Wang was also nominated for Best Picture. Emerson students Scott Fleishman ('08), and Kurt Kroeber ('08) acted in the film.
SunDeis is an annual film festival sponsored by Brandeis University. View more information on the festival and a complete list of winners.
Emerson student Liz Alper won the Cinema City International Film Festival's TV Pilot Writing Competition for her script "Wheat in Chicago" about two young brothers struggling to survive during the 1930's depression. Liz received the award on March 10 during the Cinema City Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Three other Emerson student scripts were among the ten finalists in the script-writing competition -- "Southern Gothic" by Wendy Cohen, "Realty Tripp" by Leigh Delahanty and "Seos" by Angela Jorgensen.
According to festival officials, there were over 200 submissions for the TV pilot writing award. All four Emerson students wrote their scripts as a course requirement for "Writing the Television Pilot" taught by Assistant Professor Jim Macak.
In related news, Liz, Leigh, Angela and six other students from Professor Macak's class scored as semi-finalists in the writeMovies.com international writing competition. All nine students are still up for the $3,000 grand prize. Finalists will be announced in mid-April; the winner on May 5.
The other six students and their scripts are: Laura Brothers ("Homecoming"); Lacey Dyer ("Pine Wood Elementary"); Michael Hindle ("Two Capes and a Cowl"); Kelly Marchand ("The Thunderbirds"); Ryan Saucier ("Perfectly Frank") and Jennifer Sheppard ("Addicted").
Kid’s Talk Radio started out as an after school program for kids in the Paramount Unified School District in Los Angeles. The program is designed to help students do a better job at listening, speaking, reading, writing, and computing. The students are divided into small news teams, and each team designs and executes their own news programs.
Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican? is the first in-depth examination of the untold tragedy and scandal of the dismantling of America's second oldest and largest community of Cape Verdean immigrants in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island.
