Filmmaking at Marshall University

02/06/2025

Check out this awesome new series! First screening is this Saturday!

01/28/2025

Cash prizes and an awesome opportunity to share your work! Deadline extended. Make that film and submit it!

Update! Please share! The deadline for short film submissions has been extended to February 14th, 2025! Award details for the Stories with STEAM Short Film Competition announced!

Whether you are a seasoned or budding filmmaker, a student with a passion for something STEAM-related, an educator who would like to try a creative way to teach a topic, and/or someone who has never tried to make a film before but would like to give it a whirl – consider making a film for this competition! There are three categories open to anyone in the Appalachian Region:

• Middle School/High School Students
• Undergrad/Graduate (Higher Education) Students
• General Public in WV.

Submitted films should creatively engage STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and/or the Arts (e.g. performance, dance, theater, music, painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.) related themes, ideas, characters, and stories. Films may be animation, fictional narratives, documentary, experimental or other. Films must be 5 minutes maximum (including title and credits) and suitable for all ages (rated G). Submissions are free!

Important dates include:
• November 22, 2024 – Competition Announced
• February 14, 2025 – Film Submission Deadline Extended!
• March 3rd, 2025 – Selected Films Announced
• March 12, 2025 – Awards Ceremony

For eligibility, competition rules, and a way to submit your film, visit the SWS Short Film Competition website (link here: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/DqvXOlNBWMaU3) created by the contest organizer, Marshall University’s Prof Tijah Bumgarner, – also accessible via the QR code on the attached poster created by Zorayah Jackson.

Cash prizes, as well as the opportunity to meet with Emmy nominated filmmaker Katie Dellamaggiore (nominated for her film Brooklyn Castle) for a coaching session will be awarded to the winning films in each category as noted below as part of the “Stories with STEAM” (SWS) Appalachian Circuit featuring Dellamaggiore’s new film Small Town Universe screening event.

Prizes for each category:

1st – $250 + a 1 hr consult w/Emmy nominated Director, Katie Dellamaggiore
2nd – $150
3rd – $100
Selected films may be featured in our free, web based education platform STEAM Trek.

The awards ceremony will be held on March 12th, 2025 at 4:30 pm at Marshall University’s Joan C Edwards Performing Arts Center in Huntington, WV.

The competition is sponsored by WV All STAR and the West Virginia Film Office, and organized by Professor Tijah Bumgarner and the Marshall University Filmmaking Program, conducted in collaboration with our partners at Rescued Media, The Foundry, West Virginia International Film Festival, and Teen Screen .

For any questions about the film submissions, please email [email protected]. Any questions about the “Stories with STEAM – The Appalachian Circuit featuring Small Town Universe” event, please email [email protected]. Please share this opportunity with anyone you think might be interested!

We hope to be watching your film soon!

01/08/2025

Interested in acting? Contact direct Drew Burns ([email protected]) for details! Drew is casting for her Capstone film, Between Spaces! Check it out!

12/10/2024

TONIGHT! See you there!

12/04/2024

Capstone screening next week! We are also introducing Pre-Capstone pitch competition! Students will pitch for a cash award to put toward their Capstone project next semester!

11/16/2024

Opportunity!

Huh? What’s that?👂We’re seeking an experienced sound mixer for a paid shoot on Monday, November 18th in Huntington, WV. If that’s you, let’s chat!

🎧 You can use your own gear or use our Zoom F6 + lav and boom kit.

📧 If interested, contact [email protected] with your info and equipment list, if applicable.

11/13/2024

Check out some movies!

TOMORROW! 🎥

We've added another rendition of Open Screen Night to the calendar! If you missed our Horror Shorts Film Festival during Halloween, no need to fret! We'll be showing some of the honorable mentions that didn't screen during Horror Shorts. Support local film and join us for Open Screen Night on Thursday, November 14th at 7:00 PM! Reminder: Open Screen is a FREE event!

Foundry Theater is located in the Jean Carlo Stephenson Auditorium on the second floor of Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Ave. Huntington, WV 25701.

11/12/2024

Tomorrow! Join us!

10/31/2024

November 12th! Don’t miss this awesome opportunity!

10/24/2024

Last week my Film Production Fundamentals class was lucky enough to visit Impact Media and learn about their techniques to video production! Always an amazing experience to watch the guys I was lucky enough to teach do what they do! And their willingness to pay it forward! Thank you guys!

10/15/2024

This Thursday!