Sarah Lawrence College offers state-of-the art facilities to their Filmmaking students within the Heimbold Visual Arts Center. The film resources available within the Heimbold include facilities such as editing suites, animation studios, a soundstage, screening rooms and theatre, as well as an equipment where you can check out a variety professional film and lighting equipment.
Donnelly Film Theatre
The Donnelly Film Theatre has multi-level seating for 185 people and has a 4K digital cinema projector. The theatre is used for film screenings, event and classes.
Film Screening Room
The Film Screening Room is an intimate 35-person screening room. The room is used for film classes and screening of student films.
Ziskin Editing Studio
Our main editing lab, the Ziskin Digital Media Lab, has a full suite of iMacs in the main room and six state-of-the-art private editing suites with multiple screens. The lab is reserved for filmmaking students.
Soundstage
This is 1,400-square-foot soundstage in Heimbold Visual Arts Center used only by film students. The soundstage is equipped with a full wall green screen as well as Kino Flo professional LED-based lighting equipment.
Film Equipment Room
The film equipment room is host to a variety of professional film camera, lighting and sound equipment including ARR, Ursa Mini Pro and Blackmagic cameras, available for film production students to check out.
Our equipment room allows students to check out the gear they need to make their visions happen, from simple camera packages to tripods, audiomixers, digital timecode slates, lights kits, sliders, and stabilizers.
Film Production /Animation Classrooms
There is a larger multimedia/ animation classroom that has Mac Minis stations with 16-inch Wacom tablets.
A smaller animation suite hold two stop-motion stations as well as a room with six animation stations with 22-inch Wacom Cintiq Tablet.
Audio Production
Film students have access to a Sound room for audio editing as well as a sound-proof booth for voice recordings.
Prop Room
The prop room contains items such as clothing, furniture and other equipment used for set design.