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  • Six Feet from the Mirror: Relationships and Self-Reflection During COVID

    Within several hours, Kid (Julie Olivo) and Rosemary (Kezia Waters) will go their separate ways. Within two months, fourth year HTC film student Julie Olivo, the creative force behind Kid and Rosemary’s cinematic relationship, will graduate, and also, go on their separate way.

  • Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) Visits OHIO School of Film

    OUSOF students recently received some personal insight into the television writing process from a writer involved in one of the biggest shows on TV. Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) visited the film school via Zoom on Jan. 21 as the third in a series of visiting artists and talked with students about his career and writing process.

  • Q&A with Filmmakers Matt Johnson and Matt Miller

    Students in the Ohio University School of Film (OUSOF) got the chance to talk with a couple of filmmakers from Toronto on Oct. 13, during the second in a set of visiting artists to the program. Matt Johnson and Matt Miller, the director/producer team behind the award-winning film The Dirties, stopped by the film school via Zoom to talk with students about their career, independent film and the process of making a first feature film.

  • Hawkeye Pictures producers visit Ohio University School of Film

    On Oct. 6, students in the Ohio University School of Film got a chance to speak with producers from Hawkeye Pictures, a Toronto-based production company which has produced award-winning features and documentaries.

  • Resilience Wears A Mask

    Ohio University School of Film Professor Rafal Sokolowksi teaches his students that filmmakers need to have a Plan B. And if unforeseen events force that course into action, then it becomes the filmmaker’s primary responsibility to make that plan work even better than the original.

  • Sophomore Screenwriters Pioneer New BFA Writing Course

    A new screenwriting course being taught to Ohio University School of Film undergraduates is cranking out exciting new stories. School of Film Assistant Professor Lindsey Martin is teaching the course to the current sophomore BFA class and she said the class has been very successful.

  • Classified Senate names Melissa Ervin Employee of the Month

    Classified Senate has named Melissa Ervin, administrative associate for the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Film, the Employee of the Month for February 2020. 

  • Stories With No Words in MFA Edward Loupe's Class

    Interview with M.F.A. film student Edward Loupe.

  • An Iliad: Off Stage and Through the Lens

    A live performance streamed to your home: AN ILIAD By Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare is a play about friendship, honoring the dead, and stopping cycles of violence. A storyteller cries out in the woods for a Muse to help tell the story of the Trojan war. Will they get the assistance they need? Will they finally end this cycle of violence? Friendship, laughter, tears, music, and tequila help this 100min story unfold. *Filmed on a socially-distanced set in Athens, OH.

  • Virtual Coffee and Cinema with Natallia Yeloshyna

    Get to know Natallia Yeloshyna, M.A. Student in Film.