Warning: Brief Expletive Language Welcome to the Picture Show, where you’ll hear two unprofessional, untrained, completely unlicensed movie lovers give opinions nobody asked for on movies they like (and sometimes on ones that they don’t). In today’s episode, Western Carolina students Nicole Ellison and Hannah Fink discuss the recent award shows, specifically the Oscars, Golden Globes, […]
“Last Train Home” gives WCU students new perspective on migration and globalization
April 3, 2019 by
Last Train Home gave a crowd of about 40 students a new perspective on China’s workers on March 29. WCU Humanities Initiative hosted a screening of Last Train Home, a 2009 documentary by Lixin Fan about the world’s largest human migration—China’s 130 million migrant workers traveling to their home villages from urban centers for the […]
Women’s History Month ends with documentary screening and panel
April 1, 2019 by
Five professors at Western Carolina University discussed important issues facing women and shared personal stories at a questions panel on March 26. A screening of Makers: Women Who Make America and questions panel consisting of WCU professors Lynn Burkett, Catherine Carter, Elizabeth Heffelfinger, Allison Thorp and Laura Wright ended a Tuesday series of presentations for […]
How was senior thesis film “Creating Joseph” created?
April 27, 2017 by
Films aren’t easy things to make. According to the new program director for Film & Television production, Joshua Russell, films are a sophisticated, populist art for people and by people in their ways of telling a compelling visual story. Not everything in film makes it to their final cuts, and the Spring student thesis film “Creating […]
Behind the scenes: creating the senior thesis in a form of a movie
December 14, 2016 by
Story was co-written and produced with Gavin Stewart. Lights, camera, action! Every major at Western Carolina University has a way for seniors to leave their last mark with the university. For the Film and Television Production majors, it is a senior thesis film. This year, there are two separate films that have been written, produced, […]
WCU enjoys a “chaotic” Friday with the end of classes
May 4, 2015 by
The doors opened at 6:30 p.m. in the Bardo Arts Center at WCU to let in excited film enthusiasts and proud film majors for the seventh annual film festival, Controlled Chaos. Controlled Chaos features two senior thesis projects as well as several other films as short as 15 seconds created by WCU film students. Most of […]
