The Student Lens – Below the Line

Peng Wang, Budding Cinematographer and Chapman University Student, Dies at 29 in Sand Dune Accident

April 19, 2022 Jeff Sneider Comments Off

Peng Wang, a budding cinematographer who was studying his craft at Chapman University, died on Friday, April 15, following a sand dune accident in southern California that involved an off-road vehicle. He was 29 years old. Wang was with a group of three USC film students who were taking pictures on a large sand dune in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area near the Arizona and Mexico borders when their off-road […]

Art Directors Guild to Once Again Sponsor Cal State LA’s Eagle-Con, Which Will Be Free This Year

March 9, 2022 Staff Comments Off

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) will once again serve as a Founding Sponsor of Cal State LA’s Eagle-Con, which will be held from March 10-12. Eagle-Con is a convention that explores issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, identity, and representation in science fiction and fantasy across media. This year, the focus will be on Media Multiverses, and for the first time, everything can be seen for free both virtually […]

Universal Launches Below-the-Line Traineeship, Starting With Jordan Peele’s Nope

February 2, 2022 Staff Comments Off

Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has created a California Below-the-Line Traineeship for individuals seeking careers behind the camera — an initiative that will launch with Jordan Peele‘s upcoming horror movie Nope, it was announced Wednesday by NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion division. The move comes as part of NBCUniversal’s overall commitment to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within all areas of production, and the company is currently rolling out several wider below-the-line […]

Community

P.A. Bootcamp Announces Dates for First Session of 2022

January 4, 2022 Jeff Sneider Comments Off

P.A. Bootcamp, the Los Angeles-based training program for Set and Office Production Assistants in film and television, will be holding its first session of 2022 on Feb. 12-13 in Burbank. P.A. Bootcamp is an intense, highly-focused, and comprehensive work training program that prepares people for entry-level P.A. jobs. After completion of the two-day program, we provide referrals to productions in need of production assistants. For more than 20 years, P.A. Bootcamp has been training people […]

ASC Selects This Year’s Student Heritage Award Nominees

February 4, 2021 Staff Comments Off

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has selected its nominees in three categories of the 2020 Student Heritage Awards competition. The awards are one of many programs designed by the organization to support a new generation of talent in the early stages of their cinematography careers. Winners will be chosen on February 27. To qualify, a student’s undergraduate, graduate or documentary project is submitted and judged by an ASC blue-ribbon […]

Oscar-Nominated Editor Kevin Tent, ACE, Joins MEWshop as Next Artist in Residence

February 4, 2021 Staff Comments Off

The Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop) has announced that its upcoming Artist in Residence for the March 1st installment of the Online Six Week Intensive Workshop will be Oscar-nominated editor of Kevin Tent, ACE. Tent is best known for being Alexander Payne’s go-to film editor on films such as Nebraska, The Descendants, Sideways, and Election. Tent has also directed and co-directed three films, and has recently been elected as President of […]

Rising Sun Pictures & UniSA Team to Train Australia’s Film Industry Workforce

October 14, 2020 Staff Comments Off

A favorable climate, expanding support services and government incentives are bringing more international film and television productions to South Australia, and with them come lots of industry job opportunities. Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) and the University of South Australia (UniSA) are working together to ensure more of those jobs to go to home-grown talent. The award-winning visual effects studio (whose credits include last year’s Academy Award Best Picture nominee Ford […]

VirtuaLeva 2020 Offers Online Forensic Video Training Options

September 24, 2020 Staff Comments Off

In response to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 LEVA Digital Multimedia Evidence Training Symposium has been converted from a live event to a series of online training sessions. Now called VirtuaLEVA 2020, the 31st annual symposium of the Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Associational will be delivered via Zoom Pro from October 26-30, with recorded sessions accessible until April 1, 2021. Over the five-day virtual conference, more than 20 sessions will cover a variety of […]

Editing

Algonquin College Students Get Access to Music & Sound Effects From ALIBI

September 9, 2020 Staff Comments Off

Algonquin College has been granted access to the ALIBI Music Library, a professional music and sound effects (SFX) platform. This makes Algonquin the first institution in Canada with access to extensive catalogs used in Hollywood productions and in the TV, streaming, video games and advertising industries. Through a special educational license, ALIBI becomes the College’s exclusive music library provider, offering students access to music for various curriculum projects involving film, video […]

Community

UCLA TFT Honors Disney Legend Marty Sklar

February 21, 2020 Staff Comments Off

Brian Kite, Interim Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), one of the world’s prominent academic institutions for entertainment and performing arts education, have announced that the school has received a generous leadership gift from the Marty and Leah Sklar Family to create the Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship. The late Marty Sklar, who earned his bachelor’s degree at UCLA and received the 2007 Professional […]