In the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival’s Future of Film blog, Tribeca Flashpoint Academy Recording Arts faculty, Tom Blakemore, explores how advances in technology are improving the educational and artistic experiences of young audio engineers.

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The Future of Film blog, launched as part of the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival, features leading filmmakers and other experts within the film industry sharing their thoughts on film, technology and the future of media. In her post “Reel to Real: Interactive Drama and the Cinema of Tomorrow“, Kristin Hertko, Web Producer at Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, discusses how video game technology can be used by filmmakers to create an interactive cinematic experience.

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Congratulations to John Otterbacher (faculty, Film & Broadcast) and Alisha Lillion and Elena Rubin (2010 Tribeca Flashpoint Academy graduates), who all have short films featured this weekend at the Chicago Latino Film Festival!

Both these short films – Rooftop Wars (co-produced by John Otterbacher) and The First and Only Lesson (crew members included 2010 Graduates Alisha Lillion and Elena Rubin) will be showing together as part of a set this weekend.

Details about both films and a link to purchase tickets are below.

Friday, April 8th
4:30pm
Landmark Century Centre Cinema
2828 N Clark Street, Chicago

Saturday, April 9th
1:45pm
Instituto Cervantes
31 W. Ohio, Chicago

For more information, or to purchase tickets, click here.

It’s not every day you get to stand in the presence of royalty, but last week, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy students got a chance to meet a real, live Queen of Rock.

Before her concert at Lincoln Hall, the legendary Wanda Jackson sat down in her dressing room with six students from Film & Broadcast and Recording Arts to talk about her storied past, her new resurgence among a young fanbase, working with Jack White (The White Stripes, Rancontours), and releasing The Party Ain’t Over.

Watch Wanda perform with special guest Jack White on The Late Show with David Letterman:

How do you become a super hero? Create a video to get Illinois buzzing about saving lives and becoming organ donors.

That’s exactly what second year Film & Broadcast students did in their winning submission to Best New Ad, promoting Donate Life, an organ and tissue donor organization.

The winning team, comprised of Producer Nathen Grigsby, Director of Photography Bryan Sentiere, Director Tom Merry, and Editor Mike Mitroff, created a :60 spot which features a hapless superhero who discovers his real life-saving powers.

Two other teams from Tribeca Flashpoint were finalists in the Donate Life competition. You can view their excellent submissions here:

Zack Robinson, AJ Mester, Katrina Meier, Thomas Tomesis, and Kevin Koval

David Goldberg

Congratulations to director Debra Granik on the success of Winter’s Bone!

Granik screened the film at Tribeca Flashpoint in May for an audience of students, faculty, and staff. Yesterday, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (John Hawkes), and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

From all of us here at Tribeca Flashpoint, we wish Debra and the whole Winter’s Bone cast and crew the best at the Oscars!

After months of hard work and burning the midnight oil, Focused Study Broadcast students at Tribeca Flashpoint today launched block56, a brand new, online News & Entertainment Magazine.

Named for the 56th block of the Burnham city plan (the block occupied by Tribeca Flashpoint’s main campus in Burnham Center), block56 will cover all things related to Tribeca Flashpoint, our four disciplines, and our surrounding community.

In addition to featuring the latest news and happenings around campus, block56 will showcase short films and vignettes, photos, opinions, blog posts, and more.

It will also serve as a place for individual contributors to showcase their work as producers, directors, writers, editors, camera operators, and cinematographers.

The Focused Study Broadcast students and faculty proudly invite the public to view the inaugural issue of block56 at http://broadcast.flashpointacademy.com.

To submit story ideas, contact the managing editors of block56 at block56@tribecaflashpoint.com.

It’s Monday, everyone! Make this week count with a lesson in getting what you want from Tribeca Flashpoint Film & Broadcast students and the Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program.

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Then you’ve got to watch this video by Tribeca Flashpoint Film & Broadcast students for the Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program.