Westphal College’s Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute and the African American Museum in Philadelphia present Roots at 40. 2017 marks the 40^th anniversary of the extraordinary television series Roots.  This spring, A&E and History aired an equally remarkable remake of Alex Haley’s monumental story.  Join the A&E/History creative team for a screening and conversation about why the story of Roots continues to resonate so powerfully today. Exact time and details to follow in the new year. Ask Karin Curry for more information.

When/Where:
Wednesday evening, February 1^st
African American Museum in Philadelphia
701 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Panel:
Mark Wolper- Executive Producer of A&E/History series and son of David Wolper, Executive Producer of the original Roots
Mario Van Peebles- Director (schedule permitting)
Dr. Daina Ramey Berry- Historian at University of Texas at Austin and historical consultant for the series
Jonathan Capehart (Moderator), The Washington Post and MSNBC

The Criterion Collection and Turner Movie Classics have teamed up to launch a new online movie streaming service called FilmStruck. The new streaming service offers contemporary, classic, art house, indie, foreign, and cult films of great cultural, artistic, and entertainment value. Subscription plans start at $6.99 per-month. You can find out more about FilmStruck here.

Need a quiet space to develop your story concepts? Looking a meeting space for you and your production team? The Drexel Cinema & Television Department recently unveiled the new Writers Room (UCROSS 031) available to all students for reservations. The room is equipped with a pegboard to develop storylines, a couch, meeting table, and a Insignia 48″ flatscreen LED TV to display your work. Ask the FMVD Equipment Room about making a reservation.

Need help remembering your lines? Use a teleprompter! The FMVD Equipment Room now has a teleprompter kit available to all Cinema & Television students.

PromptDog is a professional telemprompter software program that allows you to control the speed of your scrolling text and make on the spot edits. PromptDog also works with all external monitors and you can save your projects for later.

Kit includes a laptop with PromptDog installed, external monitor, and all necessary cables. Ask the Equipment Room for more details. You can learn more about PromptDog here.

 It’s 1969. A group of young women sue Newsweek Magazine for sex discrimination and the revolution is on. Meet Lynn Povich: one of those women, and the author whose book inspired the new Amazon TV series. There will be a book signing after the event.

Thursday, November 17th at 7pm
URBN Annex Screening Room
3401 Filbert Street

Today is the last info session for Drexel in L.A. 2017. If you don’t know what DiLA is, this is where you find out how you can spend a summer career building in California! All Sophomores are strongly advised to be there. Freshmen are recommended to attend as well. For Juniors & Seniors who have already done DiLA, please come and share your experiences.

When: TONIGHT, November 10, 7-9 pm
Where: UCROSS 028 (Large Screening Room)

RSVP to Jackie Mendoza (cinetv@drexel.edu). If you have any questions please contact Ian Abrams, ina22@drexel.edu.

Screenwriting & Playwriting Program Director Matt Kaufhold will be presenting a featured talk as part of the Pennoni Symposium entitled “Water in Film: A Conversation with Professor Matt Kaufhold” Tuesday, November 15th from 4:00PM to 500PM. Light refreshments will be provided! Space is limited so if you would like to sign up, please email Kevin Egan at kde25@drexel.edu. Be sure to check it out!

Please note that with .0 release, we strongly encourage everyone to hold off on upgrading until all the critical bugs can be patched.  That being said, the computer labs within Westphal College will remain at Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 for the reminder of the summer.  We will, however, upgrade to Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 if/ where possible in the computer labs for the Fall quarter.  In order to maintain compatibility with the computer labs, and to avoid encounter bugs, we would recommend home computers remain at Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 until the Fall quarter.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Westphal IT via support.westphal@drexel.edu

Drone Demo at URBN 125. Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm

In a joint Television Management and Digital Media presentation, Professors Nick Jushchyshyn and Al Tedesco will demonstrate DIGMs Phantom drone in the URBN Center, Room 125 on Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm. The event is open to all, so stop by and check it out.