Wayne State Faculty Selects Honors
An annual showcase of film and media arts projects chosen by faculty as examples of excellence in production and writing. Student works are selected as worthy of honors designation, including short documentaries, narratives, webisodes, and new media works. The Wayne State University Green List designates student excellence in screenwriting.
The projects are an embodiment of the diverse viewpoints and creative artistic practices of the Wayne State student body. Of particular note are projects from winter 2020 semester produced by students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, which were created at home with determined creativity and craft despite lack of access to university-supplied equipment and resources.
The Media Arts and Studies faculty invites the university community and larger public to join them in celebrating the work of students whose voices bring a reflection of the world that must be seen, heard, shared and honored.
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Wayne State Faculty Selects 2020
Life Gets Better
| To the Future Narrative Taya Alani COM 1600 |
Quarantine Documentary AJ Villaflor COM 1600 | Quarantine in a Michigan Suburb Documentary Gwen Davis COM 1600 |
Are You Lost Too? Narrative Baraka Elmadari COM 1600 | The Match Narrative Nathaniel Salazar COM 1600 |
Fresh Start Documentary Jaafar Issa COM 1600 | What Have I Come To? Narrative Philip Macrae COM 1600 |
GM Strike 2019 Documentary Alexis Collis COM 1600 | Motown Art Documentary Kortne Morris COM 1600 |
The Unravelling Narrative Lauren Steve COM 1600 | Vacancy Narrative John Trupiano COM 1600 |
Day of Reckoning Narrative Alivia Vandale COM 1600 | How Donte Makes It Cheesecake How To Video Donte Bankston COM 1600 |
Coronavirus Documentary Lindsey Tate COM 1600 | Life Inside Documentary Isabella Valentini COM 1600 |
Covid: One Day at a Time Documentary Tess Cowles COM 1600 | Herself Narrative Tess Cowles COM 1600 |
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Narrative Logan Anderson COM 1600 | Makeup for the Stage Webisode Jordan Prisby COM 1610 |
Bio Hacking in 60 Seconds Webisode Chad VanDenBerg COM 1610 | Girl But Make It Black Ep.1 Webisode Milan McLaurin COM 1610 |
Girl But Make It Black Ep.2 Webisode Milan McLaurin COM 1610 | Contents Under Pressure Documentary Majd Safia Jaafar Issa COM 3380 |
Food Time Narrative Craigen Oster COM 5380 | Undead Narrative Ethan Williams COM 5380 |
Breaking News Narrative Jordan Dewitt COM 5400 | Here/There Film Pitch Deck Karen Cardenas COM 5410 |
Luis Resto Documentary Evan Denomme COM 5440 | A Ripple in Time Class Exercise Gianluca Petrazzi COM 5440 |
Isolated Class Exercise Brenna Noyes COM 5440 | Smile
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WAYNE STATE FACULTY SELECTS 2019
rat, run (or Memento Mori) Craigen Oster | Islam in Detroit Malak Silmi | Untitled Narrative Final Project Brent Chadha |
Inside: Mark Whelan and the Buttermilk Boys Emily Crane | Cernnunos Nicholas Taube | The Black Hair Experience Nonnie Williams |
Hacienda de Gutierrez Ashley Dewicki | Jamie Directed by Amara Ndukwe, Edited by Evan Denomme, Produced by Kaitlin Fazio | easy! Alexis Seeley |
Matrix Human Services Demetrius Dennis | Still Directed by Jordan Dewitt, Edited by Taylor Lutz, Produced by Thomas Hartwig | Honey Monsoon Directed by Taylor Lutz, Edited by Felicia Goldberg, Produced by Jordan Dewitt |
Call Me By My Name DeJanay Booth, Monica Serwinek, Austin Stark, Max Skopek | Character A and B at a Table Matthew Piziali, Ashley Dewicki, Jonathan Deschaine, Rebekah Nichilo, Delaney Szczepaniak | In An Instant Directed by Brenna Noyes, Edited by Chad VanDenBerg, Produced by Malcolm Bedford |