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MONTHLY NEWSLETTERAPRIL 2023
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2023 Mason Film Festival
Register for the 2023 Mason Film Festival May 4-May 6 in the Johnson Center Cinema. This annual festival features diverse, original work by Film and Video Studies program students, from beginning productions to intermediate and advanced documentary and fiction films.
View the lineup and register on Mason 360. Note that the Staged Readings, Senior Showcase, and Award Celebration have separate registrations.
1:30-4:30pm FAVS 496 Staged Readings (JC Gold Room)
4:00-5:00pm FAVS 378 Web Series
5:00-6:10pm FAVS 399 Music Video Production
6:10-7:50pm FAVS 255 Video Production
7:50-8:20pm FAVS 490 Independent Study
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023
3:00-3:35pm FAVS 366 Video Production for Social Change
3:35-4:30pm FAVS 300 Global Horror
4:30-6:30pm FAVS 365 Documentary Filmmaking
6:30-8:00pm FAVS 375 Fiction Film Directing
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023
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Circuit Breakers: Film Festival WorkshopThursday, May 11, 2023 | Online Zoom | 4:30 PM EST
You made a film! Now what? How do you begin a festival strategy that goes beyond the dream of Sundance? Learn about festival programmers and what they do, portals for submitting films to fests, important considerations around online exhibitions, how to handle rejection, preparing for being accepted, and the do’s and don’ts that make a festival experience worthwhile.
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This workshop will be led by Professor KJ Mohr, professional film curator and festival programmer. Professor Mohr teaches FAVS 225 Introduction to World Cinema and FAVS 399 Curating and Programming for the Moving Image. Her portfolio of festivals includes Maryland Film Festival, Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Annapolis Film Festival, Outfest, and more.
This event is open to all film students and collaborators. Look for an email coming soon on how to register on Mason 360.
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Boots Riley at Mason
On April 27, Boots Riley came to Mason to show four episodes of his new series, I'm A Virgo (Amazon Prime 2023). Following, Boots Riley sat down with Doc Nix for a discussion of art and activism, welcoming questions from the audience.
Watch the trailer below.
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CVPA Degree Celebration and Ticket Reminder
This year’s CVPA Degree Celebration is on Thursday, May 18 at 3:30pm at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Tickets are required for all guests. Graduating students received an email from the ticketing system – ordertracking@tickets.com - with the subject line "Thank You for your order". Within that email is the link to the tickets. For more information, visit the CVPA Graduation Ceremony website.
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FAVS 450 Internships
Check out the updated Film at Mason Internship Database for regional internship opportunities. The second tab (“JOBS!”) is updated regularly and includes local companies/organizations looking for Film at Mason interns and regional companies/organizations that have excellent internship programs. Internship sites are currently accepting applications for summer internships. Use the spreadsheet and other search tools (in our Film Org on Blackboard) and reach out to Professor Chesler with questions or if you need guidance and advice: gchesler@gmu.edu.
Pictured above are Sonja Phillips-Thomas and Jacques Lykes. Last summer, Sonja interned with National Geographic. Jacques interned on Capitol Hill.
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Professor Maillim Santiago has been awarded a full scholarship to attend a week-long Videographic Methods and Practices workshop at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine), July 8-15. The theme of the workshop, and of Professor Santiago's award-winning application, is "Embodying the video essay."
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Professor Samirah Alkassim co-organized a panel for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference in Denver in April 2023. Speakers were contributors to Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film, a textbook co-edited by Professor Alkassim and Ziad Foty.
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Alumni Achievement
Tyler Lyon (FAVS '13) runs the Grandin Theatre Film Lab in Roanoke, VA. In the past year, his students' films have screened at three Oscar-qualifying film festivals in high school categories. One of Lyon’s students received a $20,000 scholarship from the Emmy awards. In addition, Lyon teaches as an adjunct faculty in Film, TV, and Video Production at Roanoke College.
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Film Opportunities and Resources
Festival Submissions:
Fellowships and Grant Opportunities:
Job Opportunities:
- PBS Careers is listing many full-time job openings and summer internships around Communications, Digital Marketing, Human Resources and more.
- Wondery is hiring for a Senior Producer for a new weekly narrative podcast about medical mysteries. This role will work in lock step with a team of researchers/associate producers, story editors and producers to launch and run this weekly show.
- Wondery is hiring for a Story Editor for a new weekly narrative show that tells contemporary and historical stories about royals from around the globe. This role will work closely and collaboratively with writers, producers, and hosts.
- Tribeca is hiring for a number of seasonal positions in content and social media.
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We want to hear from you! If you have news you would like to contribute, please send it to film@gmu.edu. We are looking for regional film events and updates from Film at Mason alumni. Keep up-to-date on all the current Film at Mason news at film.gmu.edu.
Film and Video Studies
College of Visual and Performing Arts
4400 University Dr. MSN 5D8
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-993-3287 | film@gmu.edu
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