Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmakers Mohammadreza Eyni and Sara Khaki visited Rutgers Cinema for a screening of their 2025 documentary “Cutting Through Rocks,” followed by a Q&A with our students.
More than two dozen students and recent grads of the Filmmaking program collaborated with Oscar-winning filmmaker and professor Thomas F. Lennon to create a documentary detailing the real-world effects of rising sea levels.
Class of 2029 Filmmaking student Dylan Bates made a video about his experience competing in the World Stinging Nettle Eating Championships in England.
“I remember our house . . . collapsing. . . While we were trying to find food, the film crew from Feed the Kids found us. I remember watching the guy behind the camera and thinking, ‘That looks so cool, I wish I could do that.’”
“Promotora” will be screened along with two other short films during “Mexican/American: The Search for Health and Happiness,” followed by a conversation about health and well-being in New Jersey’s Mexican American communities. This event is sold out.
“Engaging with horror films is like a rite of passage, between being young and being an adult,” says Caroline Key, who’s been teaching “Horror Film Production” for six years.
Variety has included the Rutgers Filmmaking Center in its 2024 list of top film schools in North America, which is compiled each year by the entertainment business publication. Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts offers a myriad of programs and...
Rutgers Filmmaking Center has been ranked #7 among public institutions (and #27 overall) by TheWrap.
Tyler Riscoe has the distinction of entering Mason Gross as an award-winning filmmaker. “I love that with each step I feel more confident in my ability,” says Riscoe, one of more than 13,400 first-year and transfer students arriving at Rutgers University this fall....
Introduced at the start of the fall 2022 semester, “Interplay” is designed to bring all five departments together to focus on the themes of play, experimentation, and exploration.