Film Loop Journal seeking submissions

The Film Loop Journal is seeking submissions for its upcoming edition. If you have an article relating to film, including film reviews or essays on cinema, please send them to Conor Holt at holtco@mnstate.edu. Articles should be between 200-300 words long. The deadline is Monday, March 25. The next edition of the Journal will be published Thursday, March 28.

CADT & CAH Sponsor Equipment Expo

Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies (CADT) and the College of Arts & Humanities (CAH) co-sponsored an Equipment Expo at this year’s Fargo Film Festival. Twins Cities cinematographer (and MSUM alum) Greg Winter and Lighting, Grip & Electric supplier, Mike Bullock, ran the workshop, demonstrating several pieces of lighting and grip equipment and showcasing some of the latest digital video cameras […]

Brandau receives volunteer spirit award

CADT professor, Tom Brandau, received the Margie Bailly Volunteer Spirit Award at the 2013 Fargo Film Festival. The award is named for former Fargo Theatre Executive Director Margie Bailly. Brandau has been a member of the Fargo Film Festival committee since 2004 and a festival co-chair since 2011.

Film students attend Will Weaver lecture

Thirty students from Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies attended a lecture on adapting literature to film, given by award-winning Minnesota author, Will Weaver. The presentation, “From Fiction to Film”, took place March 4 at the Fargo Main Library and focused primarily on the adaptation of Weaver’s short story, “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” into the motion picture “Sweet Land,” which […]

Brandau co-hosts Film Fest Preview Show

Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies professor, Tom Brandau, recently co-hosted the 2013 Fargo Film Festival Preview Show with Prairie Public producer, Matt Olien. The 30-minute program, which showcased some of the best films from this year’s festival will air several times over the course of the next week. Brandau has been a co-chair of the festival for the past three […]