DFP Professor of Practice Peter Gilbert and Steve James, two of the creative forces behind the seminal 1994 sports documentary Hoop Dreams, have been named the recipients of the National Sports Media Association’s Roone Arledge Award for Innovation. Gilbert accepted the Arledge Award and participated […]
Jacob Hancock-Hernández (MFA ’23) recently screened his thesis film Sidelines at the National Sports Media Association’s annual Awards Weekend. Sidelines tells the story of modern-day high school sports media within the greater context of a collapsing newspaper industry. The NMSA is the oldest organization in the United States honoring […]
Congratulations to Diane Hodson (MFA ’15) and Jasmine Luoma (MFA ’15) on their Tribeca Film Festival premieres! Luoma served as producer on An Update on Our Family, a provocative three-part MAX series that exposes the hidden-in-plain-sight, unregulated family vlogging industry. Hodson served as editor on […]
Kudos to Allison Rieff (MFA ’23) and Elizabeth Miller-Derstine (MFA ’23) for winning Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Longleaf Film Festival with their thesis film Bloom, and for taking home an additional award for Best Film Poster award! We are also delighted to share the news […]
Congrats to Jack Balick (MA ’24) and William Teets (MA ’24) for capturing top honors with their pitch of Ayzoh in the 13th Annual RiverRun Pitch Fest competition! Second place honors went to Zoe Lang of Tulane, who pitched her film, Unpacking Pride: A Guide for the […]
