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Film/Video

USA Today and Variety Name Pratt’s Film Program among Best in the Nation

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½’s film program has been recently been recognized as one of the best in the United States by USA Today and Variety magazine. USA Today ranked Pratt #5 in its list of “10 Best U.S. Schools for Pursuing a…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Engagement, Culture & Community

Diversity Takes the Spotlight at the Oscars

Film/Video Chair Jorge Oliver speaks out on the 2016 Academy Award nominations and the Oscars diversity controversy. Why is the issue of diversity at the Oscars getting so much attention this year? It is surprising that, for the second year…

Film/Video

USA TODAY Ranks Pratt One of the Country’s 10 Best Colleges for Film Majors

USA TODAY, one of the nation’s most widely read newspapers, has ranked Pratt’s Film/Video Department in a list of the top ten colleges for a major in film in the United States. “Developing our students’ artistic vision by exposing them…

Film/Video

New State-of-the-Art Facility Opens for Film/Video Department Expansion

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ recently opened a new home for the Film/Video Department in the former Prattstore building at 550 Myrtle Avenue on the Brooklyn campus. The 15,000-square-foot facility was designed by WASA/Studio A with lead architect and Pratt alumnus Jack…

Film/Video

Alumnus Stephen Douglas Portrays His Grandfather in New Film by Angelina Jolie

Stephen Douglas (B.F.A. Film/Video, ‘10) plays his grandfather in Unbroken, a new film directed by Angelina Jolie that was released in theaters around the country on December 25. The film is adapted from the New York Times bestselling book Unbroken:…

Film/Video

Jorge Oliver Selected as Chair of Film/Video Department

Jorge Oliver, an independent filmmaker, actor, and professor, has been named chair of the Film/Video Department. Oliver is currently an associate professor and former chair of the Department of Electronic and Photographic Media at Webster University in Missouri. Oliver will…

Fashion

Pratt to Present First U.S. Screening of Documentary Film on Fashion Designer Miguel Adrover

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½’s Departments of Fashion and Film/Video will present the first U.S. screening of “Call it a Balance in the Unbalance,” a documentary film by Regine Lettner about the tumultuous career and visionary work of avant garde fashion…

Film/Video

Film/Video Professor Lisa Crafts Wins Coveted Guggenheim Fellowship

Lisa Crafts, adjunct assistant professor in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Film/Video Department, has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, one of 180 artists out of the 3,000 who applied from across in the country to receive this prestigious fellowship from the…

Film/Video

Films by Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Alumni to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival this April

Josh Koury (B.F.A. Film '01), an assistant professor in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Department of Film and Video, will premiere the new feature-length documentary film, Journey to Planet X, at the annual Tribeca Film Festival to be held in Manhattan this…