The 10th Annual AFI Discovery Channel Silver Docs Documentary Festival: June 18-24, 2012Silverdocs encompasses a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the […]

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection! Being John Malkovich – HU DVD 91* Black Hawk Down – HU DVD 346*Psycho – HU DVD 411*Elephant – HU DVD 790* Kiss Me Deadly – HU 1058*The Architecture of Doom – HU DVD 1148*Glory – HU DVD 1171*Band of […]

Designer Paolo Canabarro posts these great textures available for others to download and use in their graphic design and web design projects. Each Tuesday he posts new ones on Abduzeedo.com in a series called Tuesday Total Textures. Check them out!

Local filmmaker, Rohit Colin Rao sat down with Kojo Nnamdi this afternoon to discuss his latest film, Ultrasonic. Rohit also shared his experiences creating this film which was all shot, edited, and produced in the DC area. Rohit is the writer, director, and producer of Ultrasonic. He was first inspired to pursue this project, by […]

Media Services recently caught up with another one of our alums, Colin Foster who has written and directed this short film entitled, The Funeral. Not only does this look like a really great film (you can see the trailer and synopsis below), but clips of it were also used in a Lynda.com tutorial created by […]

Check out this great post from Flavorwire, which highlights early interview footage of the following directors: Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Wes Anderson, Jane Campion, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard.A keyword search from the Media Services homepage will bring up tons of great […]

                                                          A photographer named Timur Civan attached a brass 35mm lens from 1908 to a digital camera and got what you see above. Read more about it […]

To read about what went on at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, check out the Hollywood Reporter site. Award results excerpted from Cannes Film Festival site.IN COMPETITION :FEATURE FILMSPalme d’OrAMOUR (LOVE) directed by Michael HANEKEGrand PrixREALITY directed by Matteo GARRONEAward for Best DirectorCarlos REYGADAS for POST TENEBRAS LUXAward for Best ScreenplayCristian MUNGIU for DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)Award for Best ActressCristina FLUTUR in DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS) directed by Cristian […]

Iron Man – HU DVD 2763Watchmen – HU DVD 6080Watchmen – BLU-RAY DVD 6080X-Men 1.5 – HU DVD 1441 X2: X-Men United – HU DVD 1442X-Men: The Last Stand – HU DVD 1443Spiderman – HU DVD 7121 Spiderman 2 – HU DVD 7122Spiderman 3 – HU DVD 7123Batman – HU DVD 4701Batman Returns – HU DVD 4702Batman Forever […]