Top award and Oscar qualification for graduate’s film

Top award and Oscar qualification for graduate’s film

A film directed by Bachelor of Media Arts (Honours) graduate Michelle Savill has won a major prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival.The award comes with a cash prize of US$5,000 and qualifies 'Ellen is Leaving' to be in the running for the 2014 Academy Awards.

Special Awards 2013

Special Awards 2013

Media Arts would like to congratulate all students who received special awards at the ceremony this year.

‘Revolutionary’ filming completed

‘Revolutionary’ filming completed

Media Arts students and staff have been experimenting with the Ladybug 3 360° camera. The technology is similar to that used by Google Street View, and allows viewers to experience a self-directed spherical vision of the filmed narrative.

Graduate profile: Briar Elisabeth Photography

17 June 2013

Briar Hill started her photography business during her final year in the Bachelor of Media Arts (Visual Arts). It's now thriving, with advanced bookings flying in and nearly 10,000 Facebook fans. She takes all the images, specializing in newborn and maternity shoots in her studio.

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Graduate profile: Rachel Stewart

16 June 2013

Rachel Stewart (nee Cooper) works as TV Producer for television commercials at the Auckland branch of advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather. Ten years on from her BMA study, Rachel still draws on the skills she learned making short films in third year.

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From Media Arts to Melbourne Spring Fashion Week

07 March 2013

Find work that involves what you most like doing, says Media Arts graduate Hazel Squair. As a Communications Manager at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week and other premier events, she’s following her own advice to the letter.

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Media Arts rocks HGAF

26 February 2013

Staff, students and graduates featured in the successful Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival this month, in areas from music to poetry to film.

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Design student features in AGDA Awards

06 December 2012

Design student Farrell Rolfe has been recognised in the annual awards of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA). Rolfe's website, created as part of his Bachelor of Media Arts 3rd year study in Digital Design, made the successful group of submissions selected to receive an AGDA Design Biennale Award classification.

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‘Sound The Ocean’ to play Hamilton

29 November 2012

Wintec Master of Arts student Nick Kraenzlin will be playing in Hamilton this Saturday night, as part of the new band Sound The Ocean. Sound the Ocean comprises seven Hamilton music teachers by day - who become seven musicians by night.

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