Scott Schimmel will put his environmental science background and his filmmaking skills to use this summer in Alabama as a Southern Exposure Film Fellow. The six-week summer fellowship provides a small group of undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to develop their own voices as […]
Congrats to second-year student John Gallen for capturing first place in the 2016 RiverRun Pitchfest. John and his co-director Alex Faoro are working on a film about Curtis Malone, the man who founded the famed D.C. Assault AAU basketball program. This marks the fourth time […]
A group of 3rd year DFP students recently spent four event filled days as Fellows at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC. The Fellows program provided students with the opportunity to attend premier screenings, network with filmmakers and attend festival parties. Private master […]
We are proud to announce that 2nd year DFP students Scott Schimmel and Olivia Dubendorf are 2016 Richter Scholars. The Richter Scholarship program provides funding for students to pursue scholarly and creative work requiring travel. Schimmel and Dubendorf will receive just over $4,000 each to […]
Please join us on Saturday, March 19 as The New Winston Museum and the Documentary Film Program present “Carolina Characters,” a one-day film festival featuring North Carolina-based short documentary films produced by DFP students.
Attending an Oscar Party hosted by Cucalorus is, in and of itself, a guarantee of a good time, but the Soul City team had an additional reason to celebrate walking the red carpet in Wilmington. Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol and Gini Richards were in […]
Congratulations to Sana Attiq Haq on her recent appointment as Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Elon University! She will join Elon in August and will teach courses in multimedia content and global communication. Haq received her MFA from the Documentary Film Program in […]
The DFP is delighted to host independent filmmaker, and alum of our Florida program, Michael Beach Nichols on Wednesday, February 3. Nichols’ critically acclaimed film, Welcome to Leith, debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and screened at SXSW, Hot Docs, AFI Docs, and many […]
Looking for Trouble, co-directed by Bryan Campbell and Caroline Cuny, is an official selection to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The film explores the efforts of legendary disaster relief engineer Fred Cuny to bring safe drinking to war torn Sarajevo in 1993. […]