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Paige Erlich, a 2012 graduate of Motion Picture Institute, has won Gold Hermes Creative Awards for her video production work in the non-profit sector for The Sky Foundation and JARC. Hermes Creative Awards recognizes outstanding work in the...

A congratulations goes out to alumnus Steve MacLaren (2013 graduate) whose film "Nothing To Lose" has been \accepted into the Broke Student Film Festival and The Spring Shorts Film Festival.     View The...

Congratulations to Phil Rossi whose thesis film Reflux won best picture at the Bare Bones Film Festival - http://www.barebonesfilmmusicfestival.org/

The Badger Game Motion Picture Institute graduates Tom Zambeck and Josh Wagner wrote, produced and directed The Badger Game which is making is local Michigan premiere May 3rd at Cinema Detroit (click here for tickets). The film follows a tale...

Join us for a Casting Call on May 9th open to all ages for over 30 Student Thesis Films that will be shown in  film festivals. Actors must bring an updated headshot and resume - as we begin a new casting book with each audition. The...

Join us on Friday, April 17 for Movie Night as we showcase the short films of award winning alumnus Robert Joseph Butler. See Robert's film Within prior to its screening at the prestigious New York City Film Festival! Doors will...

Congratulations to Motion Picture Institute Alumnus Robert Butler, who's short film "Within" has been selected into the following film festivals:  New York City International Film Festival Queens World Film...

Michigan filmmaker Aaron Russman brings one of literature’s most infamous tales to life in the suspense-horror film, Tell Tale Heart: Fatal Revenge! Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre masterpiece of murder and madness.  Tell Tale...

See how the prayers of one woman working in a prayer call center impact the lives of those who need the most help in "Dial A Prayer" starring Brittany Snow and William H. Macy. The film directed by Maggie Kiley and produced by...

"Leviathan" the fourth feature from Russian visionary  Andrei Zvyagintsev, is a complete masterpiece and the true champion of world cinema released in 2014, Nuri Blige Ceylan's Turkish masterpiece "Winter Sleep"...

Preview This years Oscars are the most uncertain I have witnessed in years, if you go to numerous  publications, the predictions are all over the map.  "Boyhood" was the clear front-runner  for Best Picture for the...

As we entered the end of the year, I had a shortlist of candidates for my choice of the best films of the year, with an obvious first-place contender that I thought nothing was going to top. "Boyhood" held that position for the longest...

Riveting, exhilarating, and all around greatly scripted and acted, writer-director J.C. Chandor's new genre piece "A Most Violent Year" is an excellent crime drama. Perhaps the greatest American crime saga since David...

Motion Picture Institute is proud of the alumni who worked on the set of "Lost River", the directorial debut for Ryan Gosling. The film focuses on a single mother who is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a...

Another towering achievement by the great writer-director Mike Leigh’s (Secrets & Lies, Another Year) remarkable career, his latest film "Mr. Turner" is an unusual biopic, a luminous portrait of the great British painter...

Director of Photography Michael Goi asc visited Motion Picture Institute on Jan 24th to discuss the art of cinematography.  Michael shared his personal career path which led him from Chicago to Los Angeles to become president of the American...

Two Days, One Night (2014, Belgum, d. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (The Kid with a Bike, Lorna's Silence, Rosetta) are back with more of their realism with "Two Days, One...

Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius, one of the greatest living filmmakers of all time, and is in the same league of the some greats like Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, and Robert Altman. So when P.T. Anderson does something far...

See how 10 strangers came together to create a short film in just one day at Motion Picture Institute. The One Day Film Workshop was held on December 30, 2014 and involved 10 students, all of whom were strangers, to join together and conceived,...