{"id":134704,"date":"2023-02-02T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=134704"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:38:35","slug":"wright-state-students-premiere-documentary-films-at-annual-doc-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/02\/wright-state-students-premiere-documentary-films-at-annual-doc-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State students premiere documentary films at annual Doc Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_134712\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/02\/wright-state-students-premiere-documentary-films-at-annual-doc-night\/2023_doc_night\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-134712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134712\" class=\"size-large wp-image-134712\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2023\/02\/2023_Doc_Night-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doc Night featured 11 documentaries created by 12 motion picture students on topics ranging from local businesses to family to filmmaking itself.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students from Wright State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/fine-and-performing-arts\/bachelor-of-arts-or-bachelor-of-fine-arts-in-motion-pictures\">Motion Pictures program<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/fine-and-performing-arts\">School of Fine and Performing Arts<\/a> premiered their work at the 35th annual Doc Night on Jan. 12 at the Neon in downtown Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>Doc Night showcases the best short student documentaries from the Documentary Semester of their junior year. Students spend an entire semester learning the artform and producing different types of documentaries in the process. They learn important skills that help train them to become future filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the documentaries screened at previous Doc Nights have played at film festivals around the country, and past Doc Night filmmakers have gone on to win Emmy and Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Doc Night featured 11 documentaries by 12 students on topics ranging from local businesses to family to filmmaking itself. The films included were:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClifton,\u201d directed by Mason Perry<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe neon rainbow,\u201d directed by Nic Studer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s Homemade,\u201d directed by Jazz Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Game of Trust,\u201d directed by Alex Bunsold<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Morgan Johnson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sweet Science,\u201d directed by Bino Bannan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrick by Brick,\u201d directed by Sam May<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy\u2019s Not Dead,\u201d directed by Grace Loechinger<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is Fine,\u201d directed by Trevor Seech-Hrvatin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBagged and Boarded,\u201d directed by Rob Bicknell and Chloe Sinkhorn<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Artifacts Beneath Us,\u201d directed by Cayden Whitman<\/p>\n<p>Motion picture students will also present their work at Wright State\u2019s annual Big Lens Film Festival and annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/artsgala\">ArtsGala<\/a>, which this year will be held on April 1 in the Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>ArtsGala features the best Wright State has to offer in art, dance, motion pictures, music and theatre, and the students who benefit from the scholarships raised. In its 23-year history, ArtsGala has raised more than $3 million to fund hundreds of scholarships for students in the fine and performing arts at Wright State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Night featured 11 documentaries created by 12 motion picture students on topics ranging from local businesses to family to filmmaking, itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/02\/wright-state-students-premiere-documentary-films-at-annual-doc-night\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":134712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2037,4859,725,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-arts-scene","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134724,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134704\/revisions\/134724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}