- MFA student Pradeep Edussuriya will be screening his thesis film, Beautiful People, at the Baker University Center Theater on Saturday, Nov. 21st at 6 pm. Pradeep's experimental narrative will be shown with, Rising, a thesis film by Chad Bartlett from the School of Visual Communications.
- MFA student Alvaro Sarmiento's documentary, La Oroya: Aire Metalico, won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Sydney Latin American Film Festival 2009.
- M.A. student Seth Kim has been busy recently making the rounds of academic conferences. He presented "My Own Terminator! The Use of Toys in the Marketing of Terminator 2 to Children and Teens" at the The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in Detroit (October 2009); he presented "Keeping The Dragon Alive: The Commodification, Mythologization, and Mummification of Bruce Lee's Star Image" at The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association in New York (October 2009); he presented "You Understand Why I Have to Kill You, Right? Constructions of Alternative South Korean Nationalism in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" at the Joint East Asian Studies, Sheffield, United Kingdom (September 2009).
- M.A. student Chi Wang presented "On Self-Therapy Documentary: My Architect: A Son's Journey as Example" at 2009 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in New Orleans.
- MFA student Derrick Jones was hired as the Assistant Director of The Arts Village and Instructor in Film at Bowling Green State University.
- MFA student Derrick Jones recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival in France as part of the American Pavilion's Cannes Film Program.
- MFA student Majdi Ammari’s film “The Cross” received the Best in Show award in the College Division of the 2009 Action! Student Film Festival.
- MFA student Derrick Jones' film "631" is an Official Selection of the 2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival in Cleveland, OH
- MFA student Sven Latzki's film "Dog Days of Winter" is an Official Selection of the 2009 Santa Cruz Film Festival and the Motion Film Festival in Tampa, FL.
- MFA student Andrew Barrow's film "Second Mourning" is an Official Selection of the 4th Annual Hearts and Minds Film Festival in Dover, Delaware and the 2009 Akron Film Festival.
- Read more about the Ohio University Student experience in Croatia on the set of Rajko Grlic's film "Just Between Us" here.
- MFA Student Derrick Jones has selected to participate in the Cannes Film Program offered by the American Pavilion and will travel to France for the festival in May 2009.
- In October, at the 2008 Midwest Pop Culture Association in Cincinnati, second-year M.A. students Seth Kim and Jonathan Knipp presented "Just Like Us: Asian American Assimilation in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" and "Fragments of Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" respectively. In November, at the 2008 Biennial Film and History Conference in Chicago, Seth's talk was "Fathers of a Nation: Race Representation, Nationalism, and Cosmetic Multiculturalism in Mike Takashi's Dead or Alive: Final" and Jonathan's talk was "Any Old Iron: Spielberg and the Working Class in Artificial Intelligence: A.I."
- MFA students - Anja Jovanovic, Sven Latzke, and Kevin Stock - have just spent three weeks on the set of Rajko's movie “Just Between Us” Veiw PHOTO 1 - PHOTO 2
- Derrick Jones has been awarded the Documentary Graduate Film Scholarship from The Princess Grace Foundation-USA to assist with the financeing of his thesis film and was featured in articles in The Post and the Youngstown Vindicator for his accomplishments.
- The School of Film Post Production team edits new Ohio University "Discover the Promise" ad campaign. MFA student Nishantne Josson is one of the editors and a featured student in , See "Discover the Promise" - see Outlook article
- MFA student Melissa Forte recieves Betty Thomas Award for her thesis film, "Sam's Gym"
- MFA Thesis Candidate Charla Barker invited to intern at the Venice Film Festival's American Pavilion
