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The Los Angeles Valley College Media Arts Department invites you to a public screening of student films from 2007-2008, on Saturday Evening, November 8, 2008, at 6:00 PM in the Main Theater (Theater Arts Dept.)

The Schedule of Classes for Fall 2008 can be downloaded from: [ Click to download the LAVC Catalog ]

If you don't have the prerequisites for certain Media Arts Department course but feel you have the equivalence of prerequisite courses or industry experience to assure your success in the class, you can challenge the prerequisite before the class begins by filing a Prerequisite Challenge Form with the Department Chair. Prerequisite Challenge Forms are available in the Academic Affairs Office, the Counseling Office, or online at: http://www.lavc.edu/StudentServWebsite/Admissions/prereq.html

Last date to challenge: Friday Sept. 5 Forms are available in A&R. Drop under Dept. Chair's door, CC249.

Construction is has begun on the new Krupnic Media Arts Center, a new Television Studio to be built adjacent to our existing Motion Picture Studio, scheduled to be open fo Fall 2009.

Screening at the 1st Annual International Film Festival England June 2008 (aka the “Heart of England International Film Fest”), the 95-minute “PatriotS Act…PEACE PRESS: the People’s Printing Collective” documentary added another international recognition attesting to the professional level work done in the Media Arts Dept.’s Directed Studies DV Workshop. Part of a week-long program of films from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand. The festival organizers at the Academy of Media, Recording, Interactive, Television & Stage Arts (AMRITSA), housed at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, UK stated “the production was emblematic of the international community of independent and experimental filmmakers whose works enlighten as well as entertain.”

Having already won 16 recognitions in its 2006-2007 film festival run throughout the U.S. and Canada, including Best of Fest Documentary at the 17th Annual Berkeley Film and Video Festival and the Platinum REMI Award for Political/International Issues Documentary at the 40th Annual World Fest Houston, the documentary illustrates that “art can be both commercial and a weapon” by exploring the history of the Peace Press, an unique L.A. institution that originated printing materials opposing the Vietnam War and grew into a major counter-culture printing/publishing collective, an “alternative everything press” from 1967-87.

Made from 28 hours of interviews and 22 hours of artwork, newsreels, home movies, personal stills and memorabilia from the Peace Press, this feature-length DV work was created by Media Arts students Josephine Dell’Anno, Don Lewis II, Anika Marinelli, Rachel Tucker, with Daniel Villegas, Chris Wexler, Randy Yap, and Shervin Ahdout, under the tutelege of Producer-Writer-Director Prof. Joe Daccurso.

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Media Arts Department
Los Angeles Valley College
5800 Fulton Avenue
Valley Glen, CA 91401
[818] 947-2600 x5503