Temple Department of Film and Media Arts

It’s time to spotlight some more of our alumni doing amazing things! (Swipe through) 1. TONIGHT at 9PM: MFA alumni Ben Kalina (FMA ‘11) and Jen Schneider (FMA ‘09) co-directed the climate change documentary, Can We Cool the Planet?, premiering on PBS and streaming online for the next two weeks on NOVA. In order to explore the titular question, the documentary looks to leading scientists and engineers for ways to avoid dire climate change consequences.... 2. @Pewcenterarts grantees! This year, Temple alum Tom Quinn (FMA ‘15) received a Pew Fellowship for his character-driven filmmaking practice. Additionally, Maori Karmael Holmes (FMA ‘05) received a Project Grant for curating two exhibitions of Swarm: Terence Nance, the first solo exhibition for filmmaker and artist Terence Nance. 3. Last, but certainly not least - two of our alums were featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2020 !! Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (FMA ‘15) and Ephraim Asili (FMA ‘07) are featured among a cohort of brilliant emerging filmmakers highlighted in the celebrated list. We congratulate all of our alums on these tremendous achievements, and we can’t wait to see their work in the coming years! If you want to learn more about any of the artists featured here, please check out the link in our bio

#StudentinMotionMonday gets to feature the wonderful Mary Ragland (She/her)! Mary (graduating 2021) is from Collegeville/Mayfair, PA and currently helping to produce a series called Every Woman, created by Kimberly Garvin with showrunner Kathy Chan. Every Woman is about 6 diverse LGBTQ+ friends in Philadelphia navigating relationships and ultimately learning the value of self-love. (We are currently fundraising for our first season! Link in @everywomantheseries bio!)" ... She is also a writer, director, and occasional editor for Temple’s sketch comedy show, Temple SMASH, a member of the professional cinematic society, DKA, and along with Serina Griffin, co-president of Mise-En-Femme, @miseenfemmeproductions Temple University’s organization dedicated to encouraging and uplifting women and trans/non-binary filmmakers. #templeStudentinmotionmonday @maryeragland

Here's a spattering of horror films, brimming with FMA alumni talents: Gary Dauberman (TFM '02) has a slew of Horror titles under his belt, including the screenplays for IT and IT 2 as well as work in the ANNABELLE universe including ANNABELLE COMES HOME and THE NUN. His upcoming project is directing the new version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot -- Check out TFMA YouTube page for a recent interview with Dauberman as well! Dan Trachtenberg (TFM '03) is the director of 10 CLO...VERFIELD LANE a chilling thriller that falls in to SciFi too! THE HONEYMOON PHASE is scifi horror by Phillip Carroll (TFM ‘18) SICK FOR TOYS is a horror movie featuring TU Alum David Gunning and shot by TU Alum Director of Photography Ryan Verbel BATHROOM TROLL is a short by recent grad Aaron Immediato which received Audience Choice Awards for Best Short Film at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and qFLIX Worcester Check around for these spooky films to spice up your halloween! Have other Temple horror films to promote? Let us know! #Owloween #TempleMade #Owlswork #Film #HorrorFilm #FilmPhilly #TempleFMA #thehoneymoonphase @whoyoumarriedto #annabellcomeshome @sickfortoysmovie @10cloverfieldln

alumni profile #WherearetheynowWednesday is tracking 2020 graduate Hansen Bursic and his thesis film Halloween 1987 @Halloween1987film The movie (which won a Freese Award) is a coming-of-age story based on the real life story of trans woman Jenny Jae Cory. Check our bio for a link to an interview with Hansen @hansenbursic ... AND don't miss HALLOWQUEEN - a Halloween themed stream of LGBTQIA+ drag performers, musical performances and short films that Hansen is hosting FRIDAY, OCT. 30! The event is a charity stream for @btfacollective, an amazing organization dedicated to supporting Black Trans Femmes in the arts! Link in our Bio! #templemade #lgbtq #translivesmatter #lgbtqfilm #templemade

Curious about our presenting filmmaker for this final week of the MFA Showcase? Ra’anan Alexandrowicz has directed several shorts and feature length documentary films, as well as a feature length narrative fiction film called James’ Journey to Jerusalem (2003). His 2011 feature documentary, The Law in These Parts, explores Israel’s military law imposed on Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Law in These Parts was very well-received, w...inning a Peabody Award, World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary) at Sundance, Special Jury Prize for International Feature at Hot Docs, and Special Jury Award at Full Frame. And that’s not all !! Ra’anan’s most recent documentary, The Viewing Booth, was supported with funding from Sundance and premiered at Berlinale. It’s screened at numerous other festivals, including True/False and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Critics’ Choice Award. If you want to hear more about Ra’anan’s work and process, please join us TONIGHT at 7pm for our Q&A event!! Webinar link is in the bio.

Don’t miss an exclusive chance to check out this incredible documentary THE VIEWING BOOTH by MFA candidate Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. Join us for a Q&A with the director TONIGHT @ 7pm!! PRESS FOR THE VIEWING BOOTH: An outstanding probe into not just how people think about a conflict in the Middle East, but the limits of nonfiction films regarding their ability to persuade and explore reality as it is and whether such a thing is even possible. Alissa Wilkinson, Vox... One of the most provocative of the films at True/False this film speaks not only to issues but to the function of documentary itself. Pat Aufderheide, Documentary Magazine (IDA) ‘The Viewing Booth’ stood out as one of the [Berlin] festival’s best documentaries a meditation on the power of images to convey reality and influence systems of belief. A.J. Goldmann, Tablet Magazine Available to watch until Oct. 27 at 7 AND Join us for the Q&A with the director Links in bio

Don't miss your chance to check out the award-winning documentary THE VIEWING BOOTH directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz -- an exclusive viewing (only available until Oct. 27 at 7) THEN join us for a Q&A with the director and Profs. Kartik Nair, Nora Alter & Jeff Rush - Learn how to view the film and join the Q&A here: https://tfma.temple.edu//upcoming-viewing-booth-fma-faculty

Check out the trailer for Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary feature film, The Viewing Booth, presented by Diamond Screen and @templeu_fma for this year’s MFA Showcase. The film will be available from 7pm today until our Q&A on Tuesday, October 27th at 7pm - join us then for a discussion between the director and FMA Faculty Kartik Nair, Nora Alter, and Jeff Rush. Finally! We’re so excited to share this film with our Temple family.... Check our bio at 7:00pm for the link to the film (password: FMA1023). We ask that viewers keep the film within the Temple community, as this film is being shared for FMA students and faculty.

REPOST FROM @phillyfilmsociety 11 Days. 90+ Films. On your Couch or in your Car. Find your new favorite film at the 29th Philadelphia Film Festival!... #PFF29 kicks-off this Friday! Check out the full lineup & Purchase tickets click link in bio! Trailer cut by @treyshields /// Music by @thrillsphl - - - #filmfestival #pff #phillyfilm #phillyfilmfestival #phillyfilmfestival #philadelphia #philadelphiafilmfestival #discoverphl #visitphilly #indiefilm

Our very own MFA alum Carla LynDale Bishop is the inaugural recipient of a joint fellowship between MIT and Black Public Media! This fellowship grants a Black artist, journalist, or creative technologist - working in emerging technologies - with a virtual residence at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. Bishop will be developing her project, Mapping Blackness, which blends new media with documentary storytelling to highlight historically Black communities which are often omitted from maps. Congrats to Carla LynDale Bishop - very wonderful news! (For more information, check out the link in our bio)

Congratulations to Temple University FMA Professor Afia Nathaniel on being selected for NBC's Female Forward and Emerging Director Program - She will be directing an episode of Chicago Med -- Amazing! #FMAfaculty #TempleFMA https://bit.ly/2FQTvP0

Diamond Screen is so excited to announce our newest festival, the 2020 Quarantine Film Festival Although we are not able to put on our annual queer and documentary film festivals, we are so excited to offer this opportunity to TUFMA filmmakers in a socially distanced way! All you have to do is fill out the form in our bio to submit your film. We are looking forward to showcasing all the amazing work temple students have been able to produce whilst going through th...is hard time. Nov. 4: WEEK 1: FREE FOR ALL (films of any theme or genre) Nov. 11: WEEK 2: DOCUMENTARY FILMS (Diamond Docs) Nov. 18: WEEK 3: LGBTQ+ FILMS (DiamondQ) Hope you can join us! Before completing the form, please be aware that this festival - is open to Temple students and alumni (graduated in the past 2 years) only. - receives short (20 minutes and under) only. - The screening of the films will be online. Submission Deadline: Oct 26th, 2020 Announcement date: Nov 2nd, 2020 (further questions or inquiries please contact: [email protected]) See more