News of the Weird

Muppets Haunted Mansion, the latest Muppets special airing on Disney+ is another successful Soapbox project, executive-produced by Andrew Williams (BFA '98), shot by Craig Kief (MFA '99), edited by Alexandra Amick (BFA '11) and Jason Bierfeld (BFA '98), with VFX artistry from Dylan Chase (BFA '15), among others. The popular special was nominated for Outstanding Children's Program by the Producer's

Aaron Moorhead (BFA '08) and partner Justin Benson premiered their fifth feature at Sundance 2022 in the Next section. The two, who co-direct their films, also star in this one, and produced and edited it - Michael Felker (BFA '10) also edited.  Here's the setup:When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their Los Angeles apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal

Mithra Alavi (MFA '14, the cool one in the leather jacket above), represented by Ryan Saul (MFA '95) is one of this year's participants in Disney General Entertainment's 32nd annual Writing Program.Here's the rest of the Variety story:The one-year initiative offers promising young writers the chance at staff writing assignments on a DGE series. Participants are also provided with mentorship, profe

Brandi Bradburn (MFA 99) tells us classmate Sam Beam (aka Iron and Wine) just released an album, Archive Series Number 5: Tallahassee Recordings.  She says, "It’s full of never released songs he wrote and recorded while we were in film school ‘98-‘99 at our house on St. Augustine (recorded and mixed by EJ Holowicki MFA 00)."  One song in particular, “Straight and Tall,“ has bass played by EJ and b

Alex Peters Amick (BFA 11) is excited to announce she's editing Muppets Haunted Mansion, a Disney+ special that will air in October.Muppets Haunted Mansion on Facebook

"Dummy Love" (BFA F3 2020 Evan Barber) will be screening at Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival in San Diego, July 22-25. Fore more information about this event, go to www.comic-con.org.

At the annual Palm Beach Student Showcase of Films, FSU dominated in the College Category as usual. Film School directors took home First and Second Place, and Third Place went to a student from the Media and Digital Arts Program. Second year BFA Cooper Shapiro also won Best Music Video for, "Pushhh," a side project he and a number of his classmates shot last year. College CategoryFirst Place: "Al

Thank you, thank you, thank you to our alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends!  We generated $12,000 which will help immensely in supporting alumni activities.  We know this has been a difficult year financially and especially appreciate this year’s contributors.

“Plan B’s Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner (MOONLIGHT, 12 YEARS A SLAVE) have come on board to produce Warner Bros.’ remake of FATHER OF THE BRIDE, written by Matt Lopez (BFA ’93). The film stars Andy Garcia and will be directed by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Gaz Alazraki. https://www.etonline.com/andy-garcia-starring-in-latinx-remake-of-father-of-the-bride-162641

From Chris Alender (BFA 98): “We are excited to have our North American premiere of THE OLD WAYS at the Florida Film Festival in April. It will be streaming for Floridians April 10-22, and playing in person on April 16th at the Enzian Theater in Orlando (Maitland). Lots of FSU Film and Communications School alums on this one including Me (BFA98), Marcos Gabriel, Chelsea DeVincent, David Smith, Mat