Cinema and TV Arts

After screening her feature film, “The Limits of My World,” on campus, Cassano spoke with students in the elondocs production program and attended School of Communications classes.

During the two-day trip, 36 School of Communications students visited media outlets and Elon alumni in Atlanta as part of their first-year fellows experience.

The Elon alumna will receive the award on Thursday, Nov. 7, and screen her feature-length documentary, “The Limits of My World.”

Fifty-seven students are gaining valuable camera and editing skills this fall through the accelerated training program offered to first-year students.

During an Oct. 22 lecture on campus, Melanie Saltzman spoke about being a producer, a multimedia journalist and how she got her start as a reporter.

The chair of the Cinema and Television Arts Department participated in an Oct. 11 panel discussion titled “Communicating Your Value as A Creative Scholar,” examining the recognition of creative-based scholarship.

The School of Communications’ documentary program introduces its eight new members for the 2019-20 academic year.

The Elon alumna served as the lead editor of “Wildland,” a 2018 film that examines an Oregonian firefighting crew and the challenges it faced during a recent fire season.

Led by Assistant Professor Alex Luchsinger, four student journalists recorded documentary video interviews with global Internet Hall of Fame inductees, including Larry Irving and Jean Armour Polly.

Pankaj Rishi Kumar will be on campus Wednesday, Oct. 2, to give a talk and screen his documentary film.