The Media Arts Department and Film Club announced the schedule for the 2016 film series. The series will focus on movies and television programs that depict our modern, plugged-in reality. The first event will be a screening of "her" on Oct. 12 from 7-10 p.m. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion with students and faculty, and refreshments will be served. Link: Film series poster and schedule.

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In time for the Halloween season, Pierce College Media Arts Department adjunct instructors - husband and wife  Daria Matza and Mark Devendorf - will screen their documentary about giant pumpkins Oct. 30 in the college's Great Hall. "Rise of the Giants," which chronicles the 2013 competition to grow the world's largest pumpkin, is the latest in more than a dozen films Matza and Devendorf have created. For this project they spent more than a year following a tight-knit community of growers who harvest gigantic pumpkins that can increase in weight up to 50 pounds in one day. "It's one of the fastest...

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The Pierce College Media Arts Department released its latest magazine showcasing the department, alumni and its new transfer degree. The magazine is available online now and in newsstands during the fall semester.

The magazine spotlights the department’s Speaker Series, which offers professionals in the multimedia, journalism, photography, cinema and public relations industries a platform to educate and enlighten students about their professions. Also, this issue profiles Emmy Award-winning cinema instructors Daria Matza and Mark...

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An Emmy award winning television editor whose work includes "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," "The Bachelor" and "VH1's Behind The Music" will be the next person to participate in the Media Arts Speaker Series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11. Jeff Savenick will visit Pierce as part of the Pierce College Media Arts Department Speaker Series, a free program that welcomes esteemed speakers from the radio, film, journalism and website worlds. His talk is called “How to discover you life’s path and create early success.” The events are a semester-long effort...

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On the evening of July 29, a feature film currently in post production, "What About Love" was screened in the Summer Session Cinema 107 class of Adjunct Assistant Professor Steve Anderson. Special guests in attendance were Klaus Menzel (Director), Richard and Colleen Halsey (Editors), and Reinhard Schreiner (Post Production Manager).  The purpose of the event was to show the most recent version of this romantic drama to a focus group with a target demographic of mostly age 16 to 25, who would then provide feedback to help shape future editing decisions.  This was done through a questionnaire...

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Emmy Award-winning feature filmmakers will be in the Great Hall discussing their latest project at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 as part of the Media Arts Department Speaker Series. MARK DEVENDORF and DARIA MATZA have worked on dozens of documentaries and feature films. Matza is an adjunct instructor of cinema at Pierce College and has produced...

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Pierce College cinema instructor Vincent Brook will discuss his new book, “Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, 2012 at the Autry in Griffith Park. Brook, who is also a media and cultural students professor at USC, UCLA and Cal State L.A. will sign copies of the book following the discussion. “Land of Smoke and Mirrors” uncovers Hollywood’s version of Los Angeles, using films including “Mi Familia,” “Boyz N the Hood” and “Falling Down.” Admission to the museum is free Jan. 26 until 5 p.m. The Autry is located at 4700...

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June 2012— A variety of film projects were showcased during Crossfade, a free student film festival hosted recently by Los Angeles Mission College and Pierce College at Laurel Canyon Stages in Arleta. Three works by Pierce College students were showcased: “The Dream” by Jonathan Saeidian, “Infinity Haze” by Manual Balthazar and “The Price of Divorce,” by Michelle Basche. "It was a great event and a wonderful opportunity for our students to get hands-on experience as well as to show their awesome films,” Karin Stellwagen, Pierce College assistant professor of cinema. In...

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“The Welcome,” an award-winning documentary about the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects veterans and their families after war, will be screened from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, March 21 in the Great Hall at Pierce College. The screening will be followed a week later with a discussion led by the film’s creator, Bill McMillan, from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 in the Great Hall. Both events are part of “March with Media Arts,” a month-long series of free activities hosted by the Pierce College Media Arts Department and Career and Transfer Center. Pizza...

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“The Welcome,” an award-winning documentary about the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects veterans and their families after war, will be screened from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, March 21 in the Great Hall at Pierce College. The screening will be followed a week later with a discussion led by the film’s creator, Bill McMillan, from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 in the Great Hall. Both events are part of “March with Media Arts,” a month-long series of free activities hosted by the Pierce College Media Arts Department and Career and Transfer Center. Pizza...

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