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MFA in Documentary Film
The MFA in Documentary Film offers students an immersive and challenging hybrid 2-year terminal degree program with online and on-campus classes.
Accepting Applications for Summer 2023!
Early Deadline: January 2015
MA in Sports Media & Storytelling
The MA in Sports Media & Storytelling offers students an intensive hybrid 1-year degree program with online and on-campus classes.
Accepting Applications for Summer 2023!
Early Deadline: January 2015
Join us for a screening of Luminous directed by DFP alum Sam Smartt
Tuesday, October 11
Porter Byrum Welcome Center
Reception at 6:00 p.m.
Screening at 7:00 p.m.
Program Director, Southern Documentary Fund and Director of Wilmington on Fire.
2022-23 Visiting Filmmakers
Each semester, the Documentary Film Program brings in award-winning filmmakers to teach, mentor, and exhibit their work.
Learn more about current and past program visitors.
Safyah Usmani (MFA ’15)
Emmy-nominated producer and director of Life Too Short (MTV Films)
Latest News
- Rieff lands Firelight InternshipWe are delighted to announce that 2nd year MFA student Allison Rieff will be working as a production intern with Firelight Films & Media this […]
- Festival Wins for GaesserCongratulations to Brandon Gaesser (MFA ’21) on his recent festival wins! Gaesser’s thesis film Chicken Soup for the Soil won Best Short Ag Documentary at the Ag and […]
- Berra and Cassidy Earn Emmy Nominations!We love it when we see familiar names in the list of Emmy nominees! Congratulations to David Cassidy, Cabin Creek Films Senior Producer and DFP […]
- Zaluski Featured in Winston-Salem JournalCheck out this feature in the Winston-Salem Journal on Associate Teaching Professor Chris Zaluski. The article highlights the success of his latest film, Theirs Is […]
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Good things come in threes! DFP alum Monica Berra (MFA '16), DFP part-time professor and @CabinCreekFilms Senior Producer David Cassidy, and @wfudocumentaryfilm alum Diane Hodson (MFA '15) taking a moment to wish each other luck before tonight's 43rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. @televisionacad @wfuniversity @wakethearts
@OUTatthemovies LGBTQIA+ International Film Festival is taking place in Winston-Salem this weekend and features TWO students from the DFP! 📽️ 🏳️🌈 ALCHEMY, the thesis film from Bridget Fitzgerald (MFA '21), is screening on Saturday, October 1, at 2:15 PM at @UNCSA's Gold Theater as part of a 95-minute block of documentary and dramatic shorts. And current MFA candidate Taylor Rogers will be a juror helping to select the festival's award winners!
🧑💻 🎟️ Check out the full lineup of films and events (including 5 feature-length documentaries available for screening both in-person or virtually) and buy tickets or full festival passes at OUTatthemovies.org.
Congratulations to Kyle Clayton! 🎉 While he continues to pursue a MA in Sports Media and Storytelling with the DFP, he's also working as a videographer and animator for the Detroit City Football Club. 🎥 ⚽
📸 @detroitcityfootballclub
More great news for DFP alum Brandon Gaesser (MFA ’21), whose thesis film CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOIL screened last week at the Ag and Art Film Festival in Vacaville, CA (@agandartfilmfestival) and won Best Short Ag Documentary! 🏆 It also made its NC premiere at Beyond: The Cary Film Festival (@thecarytheater), where it was awarded Best Student Short and a $1,000 cash prize. 💰 Congratulations, Brandon!
Congratulations to Sarah Nixon (MA '21), who was recently selected as one of two Southern Studies Fellows in Arts and Letters, "a first-of-its-kind and immersive fellowship focused on the culture of the American South" that takes place over 9 months in Spartanburg, SC.
Sarah is an independent documentary filmmaker and visual artist. As a storyteller from Raleigh, NC, it is her aspiration to tell stories that center around the American South. She is currently in the production process of working on her first feature-length film, The Benson Five, where she serves as co-director and producer.
Learn more about the Southern Studies Fellowship and this exciting honor and opportunity for Sarah at https://southernstudiesfellowship.org
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