Spotlight on Erblin Nushi: Student Oscar Finalist
Mason Spirit Highlights Film and Video Studies
Program Overview
Film and Videos Studies (FAVS) at George Mason University engages students in the creation, production and post-production of fiction, documentary and experimental styles of film and video and its parallel forms, including television, transmedia, mobile and web media through our interdisciplinary Bachelors of Arts degree.
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Recent News
Thank you to our community!
Thank you to the supporters of our crowdfunding campaign! We raised $1,645, which was matched to $3,290 thanks to a gift from our Board member! The money raised will go to the purchase a dolly and track, items we consider essential equipment. If you haven’t given, the portal is still open at http://bit.ly/FilmatMasonDolly. We couldn’t…
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Mason Filmmakers at Sundance
Suicide by Sunlight, directed by Nikyatu Jusu Congratulations to our Film at Mason Faculty premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival! Read more about it on the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason’s website HERE. Directing and Screenwriting Professor Nikyatu Jusu will screen her short SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT (Writer/Director) in the U.S.…
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Conversation: A Critic’s Point of View
A Critic’s Point of View Friday, November 30 4:30-6:30, Art and Design Building, AB 1007 Free and open to the public George Mason’s Delta Kappa Alpha invites you to A Critic’s Point of View, a conversation with Ann Hornaday, movie critic for The Washington Post and Dr. Cynthia Fuchs, Associate Professor and Director of Film…
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Photo by Evan Cantwell
Welcome!
In our program, we offer concentrations in Directing, Producing, Cinematography, Sound, Editing and Screenwriting to over 200 undergraduate students. Our student filmmakers study the processes of cinematic storytelling that includes development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution.
We began the year with our Welcome Back / Production Fair where students, new and seasoned, signed on to work on each others’ crews. Crewing up with new faces gives more students opportunities to try out new technical and producing roles and explore cinematic storytelling through sound, light, producing, and art departments. Trying something new is central to the learning process and that includes choosing whom you want to work with. In a recent essay in Moviemaker Magazine, director DeMane Davis encouraged inclusive crewing, “When I think of ‘inclusive crew’ on a practical level, I think it means including people you normally wouldn’t include in your creative process…Including new people will only make whatever you’re making better.”
For Film at Mason, crewing up includes faculty and students working together. Last fall, our Mason Film Lab welcomed showrunner and director Colette Burson (Hung, The Riches, Little Black Boot). Meanwhile, our Mason Film Lab films from previous semesters (collaborations and learning opportunities between faculty, students and guest directors) are exhibiting and being submitted to festivals as I type. Professor Benjamin Steger continues to move forward on a documentary series, Vibrations, through collaborations with his student research assistant. And for a sneak peek behind the scenes of our recent faculty-student collaboration, The Pick Up, check out this video edited by Amanda Bowen (FAVS, BA '17) and Britney Flores (FAVS, BA '18).
I encourage you to visit our program and reach out to our academic advisor if you are interested in applying. We represent one of most diverse educational communities of cinematic storytellers in the country. With 140 student films shooting each year, there are ample ways in Film at Mason for you to find your crew and explore your role on set.
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