film production

Ailene Joven with Media and Journalism faculty Dana White and Chris Knoblock

An abstract eye for film, creative camera work and a feminist mindset are all factors that make up Kent State alumna Ailene Joven, '21. As a digital media production student, she began creating the short film “Define” during the early days of COVID-19. Several years later, that film was screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival...

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Female Filmmakers Initiative at Festival

As they prepare for careers as directors, writers and cinematographers in an industry that’s dominated by men, female filmmakers at Kent State University empower and support one another through the Female Filmmaker's Initiative (FFI). In April 2021, the student group premiered its first film, "I Am," and the short documentary has n...

Kent State University Independent Films (KSUIF) students have launched an Indiegogo campaign to help raise $10,000 to fund its newest feature-length film, “Unlucky.” The film is a comedy that follows a boy named Sam who falls head over hills in love with a girl at first sight without ever learning her name and faces unlucky situati...