Students can major or minor in film at Augustana College. Students will gain hands-on camera experience from the start in this film production program designed to incubate unique opportunities for students to create motion pictures, even before they declare the film major or minor.
In a new combined Department of Theatre and Film at Augustana, student filmmakers can expand and deepen their focus in their field, diversifying their skills, experiences and portfolios in ways a film-only program cannot provide. They can grow their perspective and creative thinking through innovative collaborations, and opportunities such as acting, directing and production design for both stage and screen.
→ See the winners of the latest Augustana Student Film Showcase!
By the time they complete Associate Professor and Film Program Director Stacy Barton’s Crew Production class, Augustana film students are 100% trained to be production assistants. They have experience that can help build up the film industry in the Quad Cities and Illinois, or wherever their creativity, unique voice and skills lead them.
Film/theatre performance double major Emma Watts ’25 is producing a short documentary about the radium girls, a group of factory workers who ingested potentially deadly amounts of radium while working at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Ill., in the 1920s and 1930s.
The event will include screenings of Harts’ award-winning short films “Be True to Your School” and “Two Wongs."
Augustana's fall Symposium Day 2024 invited big ideas from any and all disciplines, welcoming presentations from students, faculty and staff, and distinguished guests — including keynote speaker Dr. Roosevelt Montás from Columbia University and Dr. Chris Hedlin '11 from the University of Notre Dame.
