Explore Our Media Labs
The Department of Electronic Media & Film operates an HD television studio, an HD cinema, and a Media Production Laboratory. Contact the Media Labs at 410-704-2592.
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Find your voice, develop your storytelling talents and pursue your vision through the department’s undergraduate programs.
Your Vision, Your Voice
The Electronic Media and Film Department engages a new generation of enthusiastic artists, entertainers and communicators to share media in bold and unconventional new ways. We will inspire you, foster your talents and skills in a nurturing environment and empower you to succeed in an evolving digital world. Expand your knowledge and experiences, shape how you express your ideas and heighten your understanding and awareness of the media and its powerful traditions and exciting future.
Explore the potential of film, video, audio and new media and discover the link between liberal arts and professional training – between theory and practice. Build communities and create partnerships that encourage artistic, social and cultural diversity.
You will become fully aware of the transformative power of the media and your role in responsible civic engagement. You will get first-hand experience through the department-operated HD television studio, an HD cinema and a media production laboratory with cameras, lighting and audio equipment, studios, editing/post-production suites and radio production rooms.
Get Hands-on Experience
Towson’s Media Center gives you the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in creating your own productions. Take advantage of our Production Labs which provide equipment and space for video, audio, and multimedia production. Pursue an Internship to build vital career experience. Explore the opportunity to Study Abroad/Away, and the chance to join vibrant Student Organizations.
Scholarships and Internships
EMF offers financial and professional opportunities to our students. Pursue an Internship to build vital career experience. Explore available EMF Scholarships.
EMF Major for a Day
The EMF Department invites you to EMF Major for a Day, a day-long event that includes not only a facilities tour, but also mini-classes with EMF faculty and Q&A with faculty and staff. EMF Major for a Day takes place annually in October. The date for Fall 2024 will be October 18. To attend the event, please RSVP for EMF Major for a Day.
Email any questions to EMFMajorforaday AT_TOWSON
Tour EMF
If you can't make the Major for a Day event, EMF also hosts department visits with tours of the facilities each semester. Admitted students can tour EMF by signing up for one of the Admitted Student Days events on 3/7, 3/8, and 3/29.
On these date admitted students can meet with a department representative to have their questions answered and tour the facilities available to students in our major. Visit the Department Tours page for maps, times, and information.
You can also find links here to learn more about all the resources our Media Labs offer and see a video tour of our facilities.
EMF Statement of Solidarity and Action
The faculty and staff of the Department of Electronic Media and Film fully support the statement of solidarity and purpose from the College of Fine Arts and Communications. EMF strongly believes that Black Lives Matter.
As a department, we will work towards anti-racism in our academic, professional, and cultural worlds. This change will involve learning, listening, training, reflection, but most importantly, actions. A main goal is to ensure that Black stories and voices be created, heard, seen, and amplified in and from our classrooms. We will engage in learning about anti-racism and race equity and putting this knowledge into practice. This change will extend through the work of our committees, staffing, guest artists, screenings, and into our pedagogy. It is important that the students, faculty, and staff of EMF all help create a more diverse and inclusive media and entertainment industry.
About Our People
Recent News
EMF-Produced Film Wins Regional Emmy Award
The EMF-produced short film, It Takes Courage, recently won a Regional Emmy Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. This prestigious award is a gold standard for recognizing excellence in media. Produced in partnership with the Office of Inclusion and Institutional Equity, led by VP Patricia Bradley, and supported by a TU Foundation grant, the film features a cast and crew of EMF and COFAC students, alumni, and professionals from Baltimore’s film community. It has also won the Diversity & Inclusion Creative Award, the Best in Competition Award from the Broadcast Education Association, and a Silver Telly Award. The production team includes EMF faculty members Joe Kraemer (Co-Director/Producer), Marc May (Screenwriter/Creative Producer), Chung-Wei Huang (Co-Director/Editor), Carol Appleby (Producer), and Adam Schwartz (Sound Design).
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EMF Alum Mike Flanagan's Film wins The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award
EMF graduate Mike Flanagan's latest film, The Life of Chuck, stars Tom Hiddleston and is based on a 2020 Steven King novella. Flanagan adapted the novella for the screen and directed the film. The Toronto International Film Festival is the largest film festival in North America.
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EMF Student Film Wins Regional Emmy
Towson University alumni James Carline won a Capital Emmy award in the Fiction-Long Form category for his student film “Solus Country.” The director and producer made the film in his senior year at Towson. "Solus Country" was co-written by TU alumni Towson alumni Eric Cienfuegos and Dylan Powers, with support from EMF faculty Mat Bainbridge and Ross Angelella.
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