If you were a fellow in the 2010 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship, what would your parting thoughts be?
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If you were a fellow in the 2010 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship, what would your parting thoughts be?
2010 International Emerging Filmmaking Fellowship Video #3 from Center for Innovative Media on Vimeo.
Some journalists do all they can do avoid getting into tight situations, but SMPA alumnus Megan Stack does all she can to charge into them as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Not only is she the author of a new book about her experiences called "War Stories: A Reporter's Education In The Mideast" but also she can be heard giving interviews about the future of the Middle East.
This morning, Stack was interviewed about Yemen and how it compared to the 22 different countries from which she has reported. We will profile her experiences more in depth soon, but for now listen to her interview and read an excerpt of her book on the NPR website.
The 2010 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellows and the staff of GW's Documentary Center
After a terrific six-week stay, the 20 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellows said good-bye last Friday to GW and the Documentary Center. After staying together through countless hours of instruction, field shooting, footage editing, a week in NYC, and a week at the SILVERDOCS festival, the ten men and ten women who made up the the 2010 cohort will now scatter across the world and teach friends and colleagues in their home countries what they learned about documentary making at GW.
On Thursday, July 8, a huge crowd turned out at Jack Morton Auditorium to watch ten of the twenty films the Fellows produced during their studies here. The evening "Exhibition of Documentary Short Films" displayed a variety of shorts produced and directed by the Fellows on topics as wide-ranging as homosexuality and tattoo artistry.
Introducing the event were Nina Gilden Seavey, Director of the Documentary Center, Dean Peg Barratt of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Marjorie Ames of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, whose bureau funded the Fellowship program with a grant. Much of the equipment used by the fellows were in-kind donations from Dom Cicchetti, Business Development Manager at the Panasonic Corporation, who also gave remarks.
All the Fellows received certificates for their participation in the program after the screening was completed. They will now take with them a wealth a new knowledge and many new friendships as each filmmaker pursues their own stories at home.
If you missed it, here is a video about what the Fellows were learning here at the School of Media and Public Affairs!
2010 International Emerging Filmmaking Fellowship Video #2 from Center for Innovative Media on Vimeo.
Scholarship winner Lauren French
Journalism majors everywhere may be happy to learn there are some immediate benefits for remaining dedicated to their future profession. Junior Journalism and Mass Communications major Lauren French was recently awarded a $4000 scholarship from Sigma Delta Chi Foundation of Washington, D.C. (SDX/DC), the education arm of the Washington, D.C. Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, for her current dedication to journalism and future interest in the field.
In June, she attended an awards dinner where she was recognized for her scholarship alongside professional journalists who were recognized for their lifetime of dedication to the profession.
French said that journalism is “the only thing I’ve been happy doing” or been pulled to do, even though she admits that future employment might be difficult. She remembers having a childhood preference toward watching television news over children’s shows like "Barney."
A current summer intern at McClatchy Newspapers in Washington D.C., French is preparing to take over the helm this fall as the editor of The Hatchet, the GW student newspaper. She has been involved with The Hatchet since her arrival on campus and has held several positions there.
Professorial lecturer Myron Belkind had French in his SMPA 110 writing class last fall, and wrote a recommendation for her scholarship application. French believes his support was key to her winning the scholarship.
The popular Mediabistro blog has a story today about SMPA alumnus Jessica Turtletaub, who graduated from the Political Communications program a few years ago. She had been working with the PR firm Burson-Marsteller and will be soon leaving D.C. to take a post with Bloomberg as a Manager of Content Promotion.
The 2010 SMPA Broadcast Summer Institute just recently ended, turning out several students who now have a much better understanding of broadcast news reporting, and broadcast field and studio production.
The seven Broadcast Summer Institute participants in a rare moment of rest.
The intense six-week program took the production beginners and transformed them into capable and confident cub reporters and news producers. Hosted by the School of Media and Public Affairs, the Institute teaches students how to report and produce two newscasts, master the basics of the Final Cut Pro editing system, and learn how to uplink and process videos for DVDs and the web. It's an attractive program for many students who enjoy a tuition reduction for both classes they take during the Institute. It was taught by Professor Roxanne Russell and Lecturer Jon Ebinger, and will be offered again in summer 2011.
A distinguished list of professional journalists came to visit, including Jim McGlinchy, the deputy bureau chief for CBS News in Washington, Fletcher Johnson, a former ABC News Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine grabbing a camera and heading off to complete a class assignment, when during the course of the shooting you meet a reporter who decides to write about your work. That's exactly what happened to senior Meg Beasley, a journalism and mass communications major from Virginia Beach, VA.
During her Spring 2010 "Intro to Digital Media" class taught by Chahyal Mehta, Beasley decided to shoot a mini-documentary about her favorite place in D.C., the popular Eastern Market. She said she's always loved farmers markets, and thinks it's an "endless source of entertainment and cool people - that so many people at GW have no idea exists."
While performing her interviews for the documentary, she came across Maggie Hall, a reporter for the Hill Rag newspaper, who featured her in an article for the June 2010 issue.
Beasley said she enjoyed the class, where she was able to learn Final Cut Pro editing software, as well as how to perform interviews and shoot footage for the first time. In the future, she hopes to do any kind of journalism that involves gathering stories.
Eastern Market: The Place from Meg Beasley on Vimeo.