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The Film and Video Student Association (FVSA) provides University of Michigan community members with an opportunity to enhance and expand their knowledge and experience of film, video, and television through various events, workshops, movie nights, discussions, and other educational and social activities.

Questions:  Email Charlie Splete: csplete@umich.edu  or Reyna Hughes:  reynahug@umich.edu

FVSA 2024 - 25 Co - Chairs - Reyna Hughes and Charles Splete

Lightworks Festival 2024-25

Lightworks Festival 2023-24

Lightworks Festival 2022-23

Lightworks Festival 2021-22

Lightworks Festival 2020-21

Please note that all projects created during Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 were created following COVID guidelines, which limited access to certain production aspects -- but ensured that the safety of students and faculty was the top priority of the FTVM Department. 

Lightworks Winter 2021 Program
Lightworks FALL 2020 Program

FVSA Event Highlights 

Disney Pixar Artist Chris Bernardi Visits U-M

Chris Bernardi (Sets Supervisor) joined Pixar Animation Studios in November 2000 as a shading technical director on Finding Nemo. He subsequently served in a variety of roles, including sets shading supervisor on Cars, senior shading artist on the Academy-Award®-winning WALL-E, sets shading technical director on the Academy-Award®-winning Toy Story 3, set shading lead on Monsters University, and set shading technical director on the Academy-Award®-winning Inside Out. As a sets supervisor for Coco, Bernardi works with other supervisors, directors of photography, and the production designer, leading a team of artists and programmers to create the environment for the film.

WOLV TV sets up an after-presentation interview with Chris Bernardi

Margaret Mitchell of WOLV TV's Entertainment Buzz recently interviewed Disney Pixar Animator Chris Bernardi, set designer of COCO, about the film after his U-M visit on November 15, 2017. 

Watch the interview here. 

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