Wheaton’s Film and New Media Senior Professor of Practice, Sarah Laventer, is bringing library film curation to the classroom. Students in Laventer’s Queer Cinema course collaborated with Humanities & Student Success Librarian Cary Goudlin to add more films about transgender experiences to the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library film collection “It’s useful for libraries to have a diverse film collection to reflect the diversity of the students that go to the institution,” she continued  “it also affects what professors have access to and are able to teach them,” said Laventer. Researc ..read more

Recent Wheaton graduate, Cole Paul 23’ is hitting the film festival circuit with his wanderlust-filled short film, A Lost Sense, having already premiered at the Kino Film Festival and Arlington International Film Festival with accolades.  Working as the writer, director, and editor of A Lost Sense, Paul produced the film during the summer of 2022, but had been planning production for over a year. He says the film is about re-discovering the playfulness of our inner child. “There is this contradictory thing, where the more you want to pursue something in a meaningful way, like film, t ..read more

The Digital Media and Communications major welcomes Professor of Practice, Joerg Blumtritt to Wheaton College. Joerg thinks we should consider “Slow Media” akin to food.  Previously employed as a Professor of Interactive Media at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and CEO of blockchain solution company Datarella, Blumtritt holds a goldmine of tech knowledge.  In 2010 Blumtritt created the Slow Media Manifesto along with Benedikt Köhler and Sabria David. The manifesto has since been translated into 25 languages.  The Slow Media Manifesto came about after Blumtritt’s many years of wo ..read more

Each summer, Wheaton College offers several Filmmaker in Residence Fellowships that fund students to travel with faculty-led international courses and produce films about the experiences and issues being studied. Film and New Media Studies major Elias Stevens ‘25 was awarded a fellowship to travel to Madagascar in August with Professors Jessie Knowlton and Aubrey Westfall for their course Between Peril and Promise: Politics and Biodiversity in Madagascar. Elias recently spoke with Patrick Johnson, Chair of the Film and New Media department, about the experience.  Please tell me a bit abou ..read more

Each summer, Wheaton College offers several Filmmaker in Residence Fellowships that fund students to travel with faculty-led international courses and produce films about the experiences and issues being studied. This past June, Reka Moscarelli ’25 was awarded a fellowship to travel to Ecuador with Professors Jesse Knowlton and Gabriela Torres for their course: Ecuador, From the Andes to the Amazon: Human Interactions with the Natural World .  Reka recently spoke with Patrick Johnson, Associate Professor of Filmmaking, about the experience.  Please tell me a bit about the film/projec ..read more

Film and New Media studies major Masa Mita ‘22 was busy this semester producing his short film, My Buddy Jesus as his final project for the course Production II. Working with Emmanuel Leal ‘23, Katie Brown ‘22, and Stefan Flores ‘23, the film was shot in October and November 2021. The cast features Max Van Osdol ‘24, Ethan Thombs ‘22, Lily Watson ‘24, Payce Shepard ‘22, and Kayla Garabedian ‘22. Production II is an advanced filmmaking production course that organizes students into four-person teams. Each student writes and directs their own project and also rotates through key roles on their t ..read more

Dominick Torres ‘20 has won the inaugural YES Award (Young Emerging Filmmaker Showcase) with his film Aguante at the 2021 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. Aguante is a documentary about the Puerto Rican battle against gender-based violence. It is a story about the impact that machismo culture and a complex history of colonialism in Puerto Rico has had on generations of women. The Young Emerging Filmmaker Showcase featured seven short films produced by current and recent graduates of Boston area colleges and universities. Filmmakers from Wheaton College, Emerson College, Northeastern Univ ..read more

Visual Art and Film and New Media are excited to welcome David Torres II as a visiting Artist in Residence for the 2021-22 academic year. In the Fall 2021 semester, David will be teaching ART 260 Production I and ART 198 Digital Tools for Art and Design. He will also be working on the next chapter of his Sunkeepers universe. If you see him around campus, please say hello!  Here’s a note from David…… Hey everyone, my name is David Torres. I am a media artist that works within drawing, painting, sculpture, and video animation! My work focuses on a clan of warriors ..read more

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