Film School Grad Challenges Viewers to “Change your fuel, change your world.”

Florida State University’s New York City-based “Sight, Sound & Motion” festival will be the venue for the first New York screening and a major announcement about “Fields of Fuel,” a Sundance Festival-honored film by FSU graduate Josh Tickell.

The feature-length documentary, which spotlights the use of sustainable energy sources like “biodiesel” as alternatives to America’s crippling reliance on foreign oil, won the 2008 Sundance Film Festival’s coveted Audience Award.

Tickell, who earned an MFA at FSU’s College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts (best known as The Film School), wrote, directed and stars in the film, which was shot in the United States, Australia, Germany, Sweden and the UK.

Film School Students Take Top College Television Awards

With a pair of prestigious wins at this year's College Television Awards, the Emmy-winning tradition continues at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts -- best known as The Film School.

A short film written, directed and produced by FSU film students finished first in its category, while another "short" earned a third-place prize in its division at the 29th Annual College Television Awards, held March 15 in Hollywood, Calif. The producers and directors of both winning films attended the black-tie awards gala, hosted by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

"These latest awards give us a total of 24 top honors from the Academy in 17 years and offer further proof that Florida State is a leader in U.S. film education," said Frank Patterson, dean of the FSU Film School. "In each of those winning years our students have beaten hundreds of entries from other top film programs across the country. In fact, The Film School set an Academy record by winning five College Television Awards in 2004 alone, the most ever for one school in a single year."

Professor Scoon adds another item to the long line of Film School honors

Florida State University Filmmaker-in-Residence Valerie Scoon just added another line to the long list of industry honors at FSU’s College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts -- best known as The Film School.

As an associate producer of the critically acclaimed motion picture “The Great Debaters,” Scoon has earned a share of the credit for its near-sweep of the 39th annual NAACP Image Awards on Feb. 14 in Los Angeles. The film received the Image Award for “Outstanding Motion Picture” and also garnered three of the evening’s top prizes for acting, one of which went to “Debaters” star and director Denzel Washington.

FSU Film Students Win at 13th Directors' Guild Awards

The Directors Guild of America has announced its 2007 Student Film Awards for minority and women filmmakers, and student directors from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts -- best known as The Film School -- have earned two of them.

Film School Alumnus Wins Steven Spielberg's "On The Lot"

DreamWorks Pictures has a brand new filmmaker on their lot, welcomed by Steven Spielberg himself. Recent Florida State University Film School graduate, Will Bigham, triumphed over 12,000 other entrants to win the highly competitive reality show, “On the Lot,” a Fox network program produced by Mark Burnett and Steve Spielberg.