Construction Underway for Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion
Construction continues at a swift pace for the Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion for the School of Film and Television. Your generosity has made this building possible for our talented community of students and faculty. The new 24,000-square-foot structure will enhance the school’s teaching and infrastructure capacity by adding a leading-edge screening theater, camera teaching stage, motion capture workspace and studios with dedicated spaces for screenwriting, production and incubator workshops – including the Steed Family Media Arts Innovation Wing, The Fletcher Jones Foundation Innovation Lab, Broccoli Theater and Cosgrove Family Garden.
“As a nationally ranked top-10 film program, SFTV is at the forefront of technological progress in media arts,” said LMU President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D. “The new SFTV Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion will ensure that our students lead and revolutionize the creative industries and our human future. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, discovery, and invention, the new pavilion will give our students access and training in forward-thinking media technologies, the business of entertainment, and a variety of storytelling platforms to serve humanity. We honor and thank our benefactors for their vision and dedication to advancing LMU as the hub for creativity in Los Angeles.”
Assistant Professor Shane Acker shares what excites him the most about the pavilion, set to open fall 2021.
“The SFTV Fitzpatrick Pavilion will have a specialized space that supports emerging technologies (virtual and augmented reality) and a new IGI minor (Interactive, Games, Immersive) that combines animation and computer science. We’ve been doing virtual reality in a traditional animation lab, which is awkward because we can’t get as many workspaces as we need. This new space will be a flexible creative hub that houses interdisciplinary programs, so students can create pods or areas within the classroom to support their projects, whether they’re virtual reality or augmented reality. It’s a dedicated space that supports an immersive education.”
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