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ASU students with passion for film connect through student-led organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create changes in lifestyle, work and school, forcing individuals, as well as groups, to adapt and work together in ways they hadn’t previously planned. In the...

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Creativity required: How COVID-19 accelerated change in design and arts education

Liz Cohen wasn’t eager to teach online. The Guggenheim-winning associate photography professor, who considers herself a people person, didn’t think it was for her. When COVID-19 happened, Cohen threw...

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2 ASU alums wrote screenplay for new Bruce Willis action movie

With a dearth of new movies during this pandemic summer, the release of a new thriller starring one of the biggest action stars in Hollywood is big news. And it’s especially exciting for the two...

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Frozen in time: A film student's creative response to the pandemic

As a new member of Herberger Institute Professor Daniel Bernard Roumain ’s DBR Lab , ASU film student Keegan Carlson was looking forward to performing with the lab at National Sawdust in Brooklyn,...

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Herberger Institute students to premiere work on Facebook Live

Seven Arizona State University artists will showcase new works as part of ASU Gammage’s Digital Connections Facebook live series on Wednesday, May 6. Composer and storyteller Cole Travis, dance...

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Virtual film festival presents original work by ASU film students

This weekend, you can sit back with your popcorn at home and enjoy two nights of original film and media, as Arizona State University's School of Film, Dance and Theatre’s annual Spring Senior...

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Film and television producer Scott Steindorff joins ASU

This semester a group of art students and a group of film students in Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts will get the chance to learn from film and television...

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ASU film duo’s 'Red Pill' plague script selected for 2017 BloodList

Every Halloween season the BloodList unveils a list of the best 13 unproduced horror and suspense genre screenplays, and for the second year in a row, the list included a script by ASU faculty Chris...

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Film student started own company while still in school

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement . At 19 years old, Krystina Owens started her own production studio while attending Arizona State University. Now the...

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Film student steps outside comfort zone to find success

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement . Everyone thought Marylyn Aguilar would pursue a career in singing, but it took an essay and some tears for her to...

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ASU alum’s short film selected for Oaxaca FilmFest in Mexico

The Oaxaca FilmFest international film festival in Mexico has featured the work of Guillermo Del Toro , Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese . And now Martín González, who graduated with a degree in film...

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