“DisemPOWERed: Puerto Rico's Perfect Storm,” a film that examines the reasons why Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, will premiere at Penn State. The screening will occur at 6:30 p.m. July 23 in Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library on Penn State's University Park campus. A panel discussion will follow the screening.
James Kalsbeek, Penn State professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School, has joined forces with a Brooklyn-based film crew to create a film about storytelling, loss and memory. "The Molok" begins filming in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, on July 1 and continues through Arts Festival weekend with community events being hosted at The Workshop, a collaborative space for experimental art, design and performance.
Eight Penn State entries earned recognition in the recent Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts.
Joe Cruz does not have a one-track mind. If he did, he wouldn’t be in his third year of doctoral work in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where he studies politics through the lenses of comic books, film and social media.
A free public lecture titled “That Doesn’t Sound Right: Deciphering Real News From Fake” will be presented at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in 121 Sparks Building by Denise Bortree, an associate professor of advertising/public relations.
“Face.Age,” a multimedia installation featuring cross-generational encounters, co-directed by Andrew Belser, professor of theater at Penn State, won Wake Forest University’s Short Film Competition as part of its Aging Re-Imagined symposium. The project is co-directed by filmmaker David Monahan. Portions of “Face.Age” will be screened at the symposium at Wake Forest on March 18.
The Arts Project at Penn State Lehigh Valley has announced its fall 2015 session options.
The Penn State Student Farm Initiative will host a free screening of "Food Chains," a documentary about Florida farm workers, at 6:30 p.m. April 21 in the Paterno Library Foster Auditorium. A panel discussion will follow the screening.
Penn State Berks will host a screening of the film The Muslims Are Coming! as part of the cultural events portion of the Penn State Berks Arts and Lecture series at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
For most faculty members at Penn State, the Golden Globes are an awards show they might watch or read about the next day. For theater professor and actor Richard Robichaux, however, the 2015 awards mean much more. Robichaux appears in the critically lauded movie "Boyhood," which was nominated for a 2015 Golden Globe for Best Picture.
The Arts Project at Penn State Lehigh Valley will offer a variety of workshops for six weeks from Apr. 7-May 15. Additionally, two new workshops, Acting for Film and Creating Ceramic Vessels and Raku Firing, will be offered in April. All instructors are Penn State adjunct faculty for the campus’ growing art program and bring a wealth of artistic experiences to the program.
Larry McConkey, one of the most respected film stars you've probably never heard of, will share his experience with the Penn State Lehigh Valley community at 7 p.m. Jan. 30, in room 302.
The Arts Project at Penn State Lehigh Valley will offer a variety of workshops for six weeks from Jan. 13 to Feb. 20. All instructors are Penn State adjunct faculty for the campus’ growing art program and bring a wealth of artistic experiences to the program.
Penn State Law is hosting a screening of "The Memphis 13: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement's Smallest Pioneers" at 5 p.m. Feb. 11, in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, and the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, Pa. The public is welcome and a discussion will follow in both locations.
The film features interviews with 13 African-American students who, in 1961, walked into what had been an all-white school in Memphis, Tenn. The documentary also includes interviews with their families as well as students, teachers and leaders who lived through the experience.
Alumnus Andrew Kevin Walker graduated from the film program at Penn State in 1986 and eventually moved to Los Angeles where he has written the screenplays for and otherwise been involved in some big hits, ranging from "Seven" with Brad Pitt, "Sleepy Hollow" with Johnny Depp, "8MM" with Nicolas Cage and "The Wolfman" with Benicio Del Toro. His on-screen acting credits include Dead Man in his first big movie, "Seven," and the role of Sleepy Neighbor in "Panic Room." Walker, who can be found on Twitter at @andykevinwalker, was back on campus recently to talk with current Penn State film students about the business and his career and he offered to answer some questions for us.
