Campus Expands with New SFTV Building
LMU students returning to campus were greeted with the new Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion, a centerpiece for the LMU School of Film and Television (SFTV), which opened its doors to students who have a passion for storytelling that motivates, mobilizes, and inspires humanity.
Thanks to the generosity of donors and foundations, the 24,000-square-foot structure enhances the school’s teaching and infrastructure capacity by adding the 86-seat Broccoli Theater, a camera teaching stage, a stop-motion workspace, and a screenwriting village. The Fitzpatrick Pavilion also features the Steed Family Media Arts Innovation Wing to allow students access to and training in cutting-edge media technologies; the Fletcher Jones Foundation Innovation Lab to provide customizable space for interdisciplinary curricula; and the Edward A. Landry Animation Classroom to add more dedicated space for our animation students to expand their technical skills and create engaging animated films. The building also includes a resource center to serve students with academic and creative advising, mentorship opportunities, and career counseling.
“The Fitzpatrick Pavilion is a transformational addition to the School of Film and Television and LMU at large,” said Dean Bryant Keith Alexander of LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts and interim dean of SFTV. “It invokes the possibility for significant changes in operations, opportunities, and outward facing synergies with the broader entertainment industry in Los Angeles and beyond.”
The new space expands the collaborative, hands-on approach of an SFTV education, while inviting interdisciplinary programming with flexible spaces that encourage creativity. For example, LMU is offering a new minor in interactive, gaming, and immersive media that combines interactive and immersive gaming with programming, writing, design and analysis from the LMU Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering.
“LMU is the creative campus in which students, faculty, and staff work in collaborative ways for the greater good,” added Alexander. “The Fitzpatrick Pavilion is a further catalyst to these critical and creative commitments of LMU.”
To learn more about giving opportunities in the LMU School of Film and Television, contact Melissa Watkins, executive director of development, at 310.338.3795 or Melissa.Watkins@lmu.edu.