Training
•Combines documentary filmmaking, visual storytelling, film history, criticism, media theory, and audience research
•Core sequence builds cinematography, sound, editing, and nonfiction storytelling skills through a four-course production progression (Production I-III and Making the Short Film) culminating in an original short film
•Department chaired by Associate Professor Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber; Professor Jeremy Levine's documentary "The Panola Project," co-directed with Rachael DeCruz, was featured on MSNBC and in The New Yorker Documentary series, and award-winning faculty films on topics like public health and housing inequity have screened at the Sundance Film Festival
Professional Development
•Student films screen at Suffolk's Modern Theatre during an annual year-end screening event
•An exclusive partnership with the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival creates three student internships each year and brings acclaimed filmmakers to the Modern Theatre
•Students and alumni have shown work at IFF Boston, Salem Film Fest, and the Roxbury International Film Festival, and pursued internships at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts State House's production unit, and Red Sky Studios
Facilities
•The 4th floor of the Samia Academic Center houses a teaching media lab, production classroom, finishing studio, voiceover recording studio, and open editing lab
•Studio 73, Suffolk's on-campus HD television studio near the State House and Boston Common, partners with New England Cable News on the Suffolk in the City program for on-air reporting experience
