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 Abbie Cramer ’26 was awarded a fellowship to travel to Spain and Morocco with Professor Montse Perez for the course The post Field Notes: Wheaton Filmmaker in Granada Spain appeared first on Blog ..read more

How can students maximize Wheaton’s approach to experiential learning? Check out how one creative and skilled film and new media student creates community while offering many a chance in the spotlight as you take a look "Through the Student Lens." The post Through the Student Lens – Experiential learning from day one appeared first on Blog ..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. Emma Bradstone ’25 was awarded the fellowship to accompany the Theatre, Culture, and Critique trip to London, led by Professor of Theatre Stephanie Burlington Daniels. Emma recently spoke with Patrick Johnson, Chair of the Department of Film, Digital Media, and Communications about the experience. Please tell me a bit about the project you filmed in London? Our trip to London was ba ..read more

Elias Stevens ‘25 won the first-runner up prize with his film Like Meat the 2024 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) Student Showcase. The film, produced in the course Production II, tells the story of Malik discovering that he and college girlfriend Alicia come from different worlds, despite seemingly similar identities, when he is invited to her parent’s home for dinner. The film was shot over two days using the President’s House as its primary location.  The screening, held at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square, Somerville was co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Production ..read more

Jessie Davidson ‘12 utilizes her Wheaton education in her documentary filmmaking. The Senior Manager of Content Production at Madecraft is hitting the film festival circuit with her short documentary film, Nine Lives, a true story about a neighborhood cat. Despite a perilous start in life as a feral stray surviving in the Utah winter, this cat found her way to a neighborhood in Montecito, California. Alice (as she was originally named) began wandering into neighbors’ homes and many fell in love with her and each gave her a unique name like Snowpea, Daisy, and Butterscotch Swirl..  “It is ..read more

Tyler Brown-Ortiz ‘21 hits the road in his short film Van Life, whipping together the short film during his last three months in California. Brown-Ortiz wrote Van Life with the intent to act in the film himself. Now working in New Zealand as an actor and film-maker, Brown-Ortiz recalls his last days on the golden coast.  “The crux of the story is two people grappling with a loss and grappling with grief while they’re on this little journey together.” He continued  “The short centers around them getting stuck in the desert, the van getting stuck in the sand, which happened to me more ..read more

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