the Movies category
Graduate spotlight: Captain America: The First Avenger
Congratulations to the multitude of Ex’pression College Alumni who worked on Captain America: The First Avenger!
Faculty focus: Eric Arvai wins Emmy
Ex’pression College Common Core Course Director, Eric Arvai, won an Ohio regional Emmy Award for his music scoring work on the film, The Last Dance.
Faculty focus: Rick Schmidt on filmmaking
Ex’pression College is home to a host of industry veterans like Rick Schmidt, a walking history book of filmmaking whose work has influenced countless numbers of Hollywood hit-makers and film students across the globe. Most notably is Rick’s book titled, Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessThan $3,000.
Film Festivals and Beyond
Ex’pression College has always been a creative incubator for independent filmmaking. From the moment students take their first class, they make a short film.
SF to Paris in Two Minutes
I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse
East Bay Express 24 Hour Digital Film Festival
The East Bay Express will hold the 3rd annual 24hr. film festival at Ex’pression College in commemoration of Earth Day on April 22nd.
“For One More Day” from “A Genius On Hold” Documentary
Genius on Hold is the story of how the Bell Telephone Company stole 39 of Walter L. Shaw’s inventions during the great depression, including the speakerphone and answering machine.
A Thousand Words – short film
A short love story made by students at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts (Adam Ardans,Tiffany Lo, Travis Munn, Eric Night Pipe, and Darrin O’Hara).
Students work with Coraline animator
Justin Kohn (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach), along with cameraman Peter Williams (Coraline and others), brought their current project, a stop-motion film adapted from H. G. Wells War of the Worlds novel, to Ex’pression College to begin production on a trailer for the film.





















