28 February 2025
Taylor’s Envision Film Festival (March 13-15) will highlight the best work of Taylor student filmmakers this year and offer free workshops open to high school students and the public. Guests will include Jennifer Haire, a Line Producer and DGA Production Manager with professional feature film and television experience, and Beth Legate, Executive Producer with Image Base, a Chicago video and event company.
Haire will offer workshops on unlocking success in the film & TV industry, an overview of the physical crew and departments in in traditional feature film and television, and a workshop with the nuts and bolts of the specific production paperwork Hollywood uses. Haire is author of “Keys to the Production Office, Unlocking Success as an Office Production Assistant in Film and Television,” the first film & television production handbook dedicated to production office operations and the role of the Office Production Assistant.
Legate will focus on using video production skills in the corporate marketing and branding world, leveraging her decades of experience as an executive producer. Legate is a Taylor graduate.
The year’s best fiction films, documentaries, and music videos made by Taylor students will screen on March 14 at 7 pm in Rediger Auditorium in the Boren Campus Center. An awards ceremony will showcase the winners of this year’s competition, as judged by Taylor film alumni.
Taylor’s Film & Media Arts program has won more than 1,100 external awards, including CINEs, Tellys, and multiple recognitions from the regional Emmy organization and film festivals nationwide. In 2023, Taylor received its first recognition from the Student Academy Awards with a semi-finalist recognition for one of its documentaries.