Founded in September 2003 by Andres McConnon, the amalgamated Princeton Film Foundation/Tigervision seeks to give all students interested in filmmaking a chance to work together and broadcast their work across campus and to the thousands of residents of the local community. Learning from the setbacks of previous student filmmaker organizations, the amalgamated Princeton Film Foundation/Tigervision dedicated itself to two goals. First, it wanted to devise and enact a multi-year strategy to make the daunting ambition of a student-run television network with a full slate of student-produced programs a viable reality. Second, it hoped to build a wide base of student membership by offering an extensive slate of events and helping undergraduates secure summer internships and full-time employment upon graduating in entertainment industry centers across the globe.
Over the course of the fall semester, the officers of the club met various times with the leaders of the student government to discuss their financing proposal and began carrying out their multi-year plan to create a student television network and kick-start a thriving film culture on campus. Co-ordinating guest lectures, student film festivals, filmmaking workshops and summer internships in the entertainment industry for students, Princeton Film Foundation/Tigervision quickly generated a lot of interest in campus. Over the course of the following years, the original financing proposals were executed and university students, for the first time ever, had full access to broadcast quality film and networking equipment.
In the winter of 2006, current president Greg Marx invited different student groups to use the new equipment to produce pilots for news programs, sitcoms and dramas. The number of students interested in participating was extraordinary. In April 2006, he brought together the first season of student offerings and officially launched the Princeton Student Television Network (PSTN-Channel 7). With the broadcast of ten new series (four dramas, three sitcoms, a reality TV show, a game show and a news program), the original dream of a full-service student-run television channel has finally become a reality!