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Santa Barbara International Film Festival Executive Director Roger Durling ’86 to Deliver 2025 VPA Convocation Address
Roger Durling ’86, executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) in Santa Barbara, California, will deliver the 2025 convocation address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) during the…
Film Professor Receives Creative Capital Award for Documentary Feature
Experimental filmmaker and animator Kelly Gallagher, an associate professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Film and Media Arts, has received a 2024 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Award in Visual Arts…
School of Architecture Student Creates Film About the Plight of Women
From a young age, Georgia Fernandes ’24, a fifth-year student from Kenya studying in the School of Architecture, has always wanted to tell stories. Fernandes’ desire to create something from scratch, much like architecture, led her to begin writing movie…
VPA Film Faculty Receive Emmy Award Nomination
Two film faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Children/Youth/Teen from the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. David Tarleton, professor…
Film Favorites for Your Halloween Movie Night
Looking for a good scary movie to watch this Halloween? Get your popcorn and candy ready for these recommendations by some of our faculty experts who weighed in on their scariest favorites. Roger Hallas “I am particularly partial to artsy…
University Football Films Collection Now Available Online
A selection of football films from the University Archives in Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is now available online. The Libraries’ digital stewardship team, in collaboration with the SCRC, coordinated digitization of 430 films dating from 1949…
Human Rights Film Festival: Changing the World, One Conversation at a Time
From the rural landscape of Michigan, to the devastated landscape of Bucha in the Ukraine, to the virtual landscape of the African diaspora, filmmakers address social issues and the fight for human rights around the globe at the 21st annual…
VPA Sophomore Wins Fellowship, Plans Film on the Mental Health of Refugee Youth
Rayan Mohamed, a sophomore film major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, has been selected as a 2023-2024 Imagining America/Joy of Giving Something Fellow. The program aims to elevate photography and digital media as pathways for undergraduate students…
Pursuing What Fulfills You: The Nontraditional Journey to a Film Degree With Ruchatneet Printup ’23 on the ‘’Cuse Conversations’ Podcast
Instead of feeling pride over being the first member of his family to earn a college degree, Ruchatneet Printup ’23 felt trapped in a dead-end job that lacked purpose, meaning and fulfillment after earning a biomedical computing degree from Rochester…
Film Rights to Mona Awad’s Novel ‘Bunny’ Purchased by Bad Robot Productions
From being named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue and others, to becoming a viral sensation on TikTok, Mona Awad’s bestselling novel “Bunny” will now make its way to the silver screen. According to the Hollywood news website…