by Edwin Weihe
In 2010-2011, more than 400 students enrolled in film classes, up from 197 in 2009-10, including our own courses in History of Film, Documentary, Coen Brothers, Horror, Melodrama, Japanese Film, Almodovar, Films of the Sixties, Art of Film, Scifi, and Film Production I, and x-listed courses in Screenwriting, Global African Film, Film and History, Shakespeare in Film, Film and Religion, International Film, and Gender and Film.
We ended the year with 40 majors, half of whom are freshmen, and 12 minors. Three majors will graduate. We should have 50-52 majors in the fall, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and should end next year with about 65 majors total.
Eight students undertook internships, most for 2-5 credits, on films in production in Seattle and at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival), where I continue to serve on the Board of Directors. Trisha Hein is on SIFF’s Youth Council, and Saheed Adejumobi on an education committee. This year Trisha completed most of the work on an Internship Profile, basically a notebook of internships available to film students. The goal is to have twenty students in internships each year. In addition to internships, several film majors were engaged to make promo films for non-profit companies, and two majors will film this summer’s course in Paris. One film major has submitted a proposal to the university’s Youth Initiative for the creation of an elementary school film studies program with our film majors as faculty.
The Film Arts Series hosted six faculty lectures, and co-sponsored three film-related events. The Wright Foundation provided a gift of $10,000 to Film Studies, and pledged additional financial support to bring high-profile guests (directors, actors) to the series in 2011-12. The Foundation also made a gift, in my name, to SIFF. Seattle University was a SIFF sponsor in 2011-12, as it was in 2010-11. A&S discontinued support for NFFTY and NWHSFF, both youth film festivals.
In 2011-12, Film Studies will offer its own courses in Art of Film, History of Film, Westerns, Greater Middle East Film, Fellini, Political Cinema, Script Analysis, Screenwriting, German Cinema, Writing about Film (x-listed with English), Film Noir (taught by a new PT hire, Robert Horton), Chinese Film, and an exciting spring course entitled The Festival, which will focus on SIFF and smaller spring quarter festivals in Seattle. In addition, Film Studies will offer at least two, possibly three filmmaking courses. We will x-list Film & Philosophy, taught by Jason Wirth.
In 2010-2011, more than 400 students enrolled in film classes, up from 197 in 2009-10, including our own courses in History of Film, Documentary, Coen Brothers, Horror, Melodrama, Japanese Film, Almodovar, Films of the Sixties, Art of Film, Scifi, and Film Production I, and x-listed courses in Screenwriting, Global African Film, Film and History, Shakespeare in Film, Film and Religion, International Film, and Gender and Film.
We ended the year with 40 majors, half of whom are freshmen, and 12 minors. Three majors will graduate. We should have 50-52 majors in the fall, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and should end next year with about 65 majors total.
Eight students undertook internships, most for 2-5 credits, on films in production in Seattle and at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival), where I continue to serve on the Board of Directors. Trisha Hein is on SIFF’s Youth Council, and Saheed Adejumobi on an education committee. This year Trisha completed most of the work on an Internship Profile, basically a notebook of internships available to film students. The goal is to have twenty students in internships each year. In addition to internships, several film majors were engaged to make promo films for non-profit companies, and two majors will film this summer’s course in Paris. One film major has submitted a proposal to the university’s Youth Initiative for the creation of an elementary school film studies program with our film majors as faculty.
The Film Arts Series hosted six faculty lectures, and co-sponsored three film-related events. The Wright Foundation provided a gift of $10,000 to Film Studies, and pledged additional financial support to bring high-profile guests (directors, actors) to the series in 2011-12. The Foundation also made a gift, in my name, to SIFF. Seattle University was a SIFF sponsor in 2011-12, as it was in 2010-11. A&S discontinued support for NFFTY and NWHSFF, both youth film festivals.
In 2011-12, Film Studies will offer its own courses in Art of Film, History of Film, Westerns, Greater Middle East Film, Fellini, Political Cinema, Script Analysis, Screenwriting, German Cinema, Writing about Film (x-listed with English), Film Noir (taught by a new PT hire, Robert Horton), Chinese Film, and an exciting spring course entitled The Festival, which will focus on SIFF and smaller spring quarter festivals in Seattle. In addition, Film Studies will offer at least two, possibly three filmmaking courses. We will x-list Film & Philosophy, taught by Jason Wirth.
In 2010-2011, more than 400 students enrolled in film classes, up from 197 in 2009-10, including our own courses in History of Film, Documentary, Coen Brothers, Horror, Melodrama, Japanese Film, Almodovar, Films of the Sixties, Art of Film, Scifi, and Film Production I, and x-listed courses in Screenwriting, Global African Film, Film and History, Shakespeare in Film, Film and Religion, International Film, and Gender and Film.
We ended the year with 40 majors, half of whom are freshmen, and 12 minors. Three majors will graduate. We should have 50-52 majors in the fall, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and should end next year with about 65 majors total.
Eight students undertook internships, most for 2-5 credits, on films in production in Seattle and at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival), where I continue to serve on the Board of Directors. Trisha Hein is on SIFF’s Youth Council, and Saheed Adejumobi on an education committee. This year Trisha completed most of the work on an Internship Profile, basically a notebook of internships available to film students. The goal is to have twenty students in internships each year. In addition to internships, several film majors were engaged to make promo films for non-profit companies, and two majors will film this summer’s course in Paris. One film major has submitted a proposal to the university’s Youth Initiative for the creation of an elementary school film studies program with our film majors as faculty.
The Film Arts Series hosted six faculty lectures, and co-sponsored three film-related events. The Wright Foundation provided a gift of $10,000 to Film Studies, and pledged additional financial support to bring high-profile guests (directors, actors) to the series in 2011-12. The Foundation also made a gift, in my name, to SIFF. Seattle University was a SIFF sponsor in 2011-12, as it was in 2010-11. A&S discontinued support for NFFTY and NWHSFF, both youth film festivals.
In 2011-12, Film Studies will offer its own courses in Art of Film, History of Film, Westerns, Greater Middle East Film, Fellini, Political Cinema, Script Analysis, Screenwriting, German Cinema, Writing about Film (x-listed with English), Film Noir (taught by a new PT hire, Robert Horton), Chinese Film, and an exciting spring course entitled The Festival, which will focus on SIFF and smaller spring quarter festivals in Seattle. In addition, Film Studies will offer at least two, possibly three filmmaking courses. We will x-list Film & Philosophy, taught by Jason Wirth.
In 2010-2011, more than 400 students enrolled in film classes, up from 197 in 2009-10, including our own courses in History of Film, Documentary, Coen Brothers, Horror, Melodrama, Japanese Film, Almodovar, Films of the Sixties, Art of Film, Scifi, and Film Production I, and x-listed courses in Screenwriting, Global African Film, Film and History, Shakespeare in Film, Film and Religion, International Film, and Gender and Film.
We ended the year with 40 majors, half of whom are freshmen, and 12 minors. Three majors will graduate. We should have 50-52 majors in the fall, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and should end next year with about 65 majors total.
Eight students undertook internships, most for 2-5 credits, on films in production in Seattle and at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival), where I continue to serve on the Board of Directors. Trisha Hein is on SIFF’s Youth Council, and Saheed Adejumobi on an education committee. This year Trisha completed most of the work on an Internship Profile, basically a notebook of internships available to film students. The goal is to have twenty students in internships each year. In addition to internships, several film majors were engaged to make promo films for non-profit companies, and two majors will film this summer’s course in Paris. One film major has submitted a proposal to the university’s Youth Initiative for the creation of an elementary school film studies program with our film majors as faculty.
The Film Arts Series hosted six faculty lectures, and co-sponsored three film-related events. The Wright Foundation provided a gift of $10,000 to Film Studies, and pledged additional financial support to bring high-profile guests (directors, actors) to the series in 2011-12. The Foundation also made a gift, in my name, to SIFF. Seattle University was a SIFF sponsor in 2011-12, as it was in 2010-11. A&S discontinued support for NFFTY and NWHSFF, both youth film festivals.
In 2011-12, Film Studies will offer its own courses in Art of Film, History of Film, Westerns, Greater Middle East Film, Fellini, Political Cinema, Script Analysis, Screenwriting, German Cinema, Writing about Film (x-listed with English), Film Noir (taught by a new PT hire, Robert Horton), Chinese Film, and an exciting spring course entitled The Festival, which will focus on SIFF and smaller spring quarter festivals in Seattle. In addition, Film Studies will offer at least two, possibly three filmmaking courses. We will x-list Film & Philosophy, taught by Jason Wirth.