Sarah Lawrence College: Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts

Join students and faculty for our annual screening of student films at the Picture House in Bronxville. Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts faculty Robin Starbuck, Damani Baker ’96, Jazmin Lopez, Scott Duce, Yeong Ran Kim, Misael Sanchez, and Rona Mark have selected films created by students during the academic year. Connect with fellow members of the Sarah Lawrence community and support emerging filmmakers. A reception hosted by the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts faculty and the Office of Alumni Relations with our student filmmakers at Pete’s Tavern in Bronxville will precede the screening.

Advance registration is required - students can sign up through GryphonLink.

We have two end of year screenings coming up!

The Senior Filmmaking Showcase will be held in the Heimbold Donnelley Film Theater on Friday, May 3rd. There will be cookies, brownies and lemonade served starting at 3:15pm.

The screening will start promptly at 4pm.

Students and faculty can come beforehand to have a photo taken in front of the SLC “step and repeat” backdrop in the lobby and to celebrate with the seniors screening their work.

All members of the campus community are welcome.

Seniors who will be screening include:

Sophia Baldassari
Julian Day
Sophia Skye de Reeder
Mary DeSouza
Joe Dye
Kaia Goudreau
Maeve Houston
Cody James-Cardenas
Vance Miguel Johnson
Daniel O'Hare
Manuela Pacheco
Rowan Wood

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The Faculty Selects Screening will be held at The Picture House in Bronxville on Monday May 6th. The films were chosen by faculty who taught production classes this year and represent students from each class year and are drawn from across the Filmmaking & Moving Arts curriculum.

There will be a shuttle running from the Barb parking lot before and after the event.

The doors to the theater will open at 6:30pm; the event will begin promptly at 7pm.

All members of the campus community are welcome.

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The Breakthrough Screening Series presents

How to Blowup a Pipeline

The film will screen on Monday September 18th at 5:05pm in the Heimbold Donnelley Theater, followed by a Q&A with co-writer Jordan Sjol SLC ’12.

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.

Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts is thrilled to welcome new regular faculty member Jazmín López! She will be teaching both production and screenwriting courses this year.

Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires. MFA, New York University. A filmmaker, visual artist, and professor. López participated in the WhitneyISP program. Her work has been featured in venues such as Fondation Pernod Ricard, San Jose Museum, OCAT, Tabacalera, Kadist, Istanbul Biennial, Orizzonti official competition Venezia Biennial, Rotterdam Film Fest, Viennale, New Directors New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, Centre George Pompidou, and KW institute Berlin, among many other world film festivals, and has been featured in Variety and The New York Times. SLC, 2023–

“Fred played a vital role during his time as program chair for the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts program. He seemed to have an inexhaustible capacity to gather faculty and practitioners to support our students’ work,” says Sarah Lawrence College President Cristle Collins Judd. “Watching Fred interact with recent graduates at alumni events, whether in New York or LA, was always such a pleasure because one had a visceral sense of the spark that was ignited in his classrooms; it was a spark that continued long after the students' time at the College.”

Strype’s contributions to the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts Program at Sarah Lawrence College, first as a faculty member, then as Chair, are significant. Though his career began well before his two decades at Sarah Lawrence, perhaps his most important contribution is that as a mentor to his students.

“Many professors at Sarah Lawrence make a big impact on their students. Fred Strype changed my life and helped shape my career irrevocably,” said former student Frederic Richter ’10, who now works as a television writer, producer, and researcher. “While in college I was initially studying creative non-fiction and history. I was always interested in film and screenwriting but had no familiar connections nor experience in film or television and it seemed like a closed off, impossible to reach world,” continued Richter. “Fred made me realize that everything, including a career in writing, was possible.”

For Strype, the relationship between teacher and student often went both ways. Just as he challenged them to think beyond the possible, he found their curiosity and tenacity eye-opening. “I’m always amazed at how much I learn from my students and how they help me see art in a new way,” Strype once shared. “Students at Sarah Lawrence are uniquely wired; they like to push limits and question everything. In their intrepid exploration, they wind up doing things that should not work, but do.”

Congratulations to the class of 2023!

Congratulations to all the seniors who screened work tonight! An incredible slate of films!

TODAY
Senior Filmmaking Showcase
Monday May 8th at 5pm
The Picture House in Bronxville, NY

featuring films from Aubrey Klavon, Abigail Rhyne, Calvin Mumm, Rohan Padmakumar, Kuangyi Jin, Ryan Arecco, Frenchie Cavallo Phelps, Maren Muhlenberg, Avery Warsaw, Theo Chan, Oona Mozelle, Grace Jackson, Shane Dorin, Raven Wolfe

Advanced Animation Screening
Friday May 5th at 3pm
Heimbold 135

featuring films from Maia Jin, Kadin Napoli, Maren Muhlenberg, Willa Allen, Izzy Friedman

End of the Year Film Screening
Friday May 5th at 4pm
Heimbold Donnelley Theater

featuring films from Ralph Calle-Schulz, Juni Green, Soah Blake, Olin MacIntosh, Maeva Raymond, Sophia Skye de Reeder, Noah Rozenblatt, Nova Willmon, Vivian Marko

Senior Filmmaking Showcase
Monday May 8th at 5pm
The Picture House in Bronxville, NY

featuring films from Aubrey Klavon, Abigail Rhyne, Calvin Mumm, Rohan Padmakumar, Kuangyi Jin, Ryan Arecco, Frenchie Cavallo Phelps, Maren Muhlenberg, Avery Warsaw, Theo Chan, Oona Mozelle, Wyatt Button, Grace Jackson, Shane Dorin, Raven Wolfe

Come see films from the advanced animation class TODAY at 3pm in Heimbold 135!

24 hours away!

End of the Year Film Screening
Friday May 5th at 4pm
Heimbold Donnelley Theater

featuring films from Ralph Calle-Schulz, Juni Green, Soah Blake, Olin MacIntosh, Maeva Raymond, Sophia Skye de Reeder, Noah Rozenblatt, Nova Willmon, Vivian Marko

Three end of the year screenings:

Friday May 5 at 3pm: Advanced Independent Studio, Animation Screening (Heimbold 135)

Friday May 5 at 4pm: End of Year Screening (Heimbold Donnelley Theater)

Monday May 8 at 5pm: Senior Film Showcase (The Picture House in Bronxville, NY)