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. […]
Diane Hodson (MFA ’15) and Jasmine Luoma (MFA ’15) recently enjoyed some island living while screening their film unmappable at the Key West Film Festival. The duo has much to celebrate. Their film has screened in over 25 film festivals and garnered several “best of […]
Get an insider’s perspective on how to tell the human story behind the sporting event. Our Masters of Arts offers you the opportunity to learn sports storytelling from five-time NBA all-star, sports analyst, and film producer Chris Webber and Emmy-winning director/producer and cinematographer Peter Gilbert. […]
Jon Jensen will share his experiences as an international journalist in the Middle East in Live from the Living Room: Storytelling Amidst Conflict, Chaos, and Camels in a Changing Middle East at 6 p.m. on Monday, October 12 at the Graduate School at Brookstown, Suite […]
Filmmaker and former student Jason Osder will be joining us Thursday, October 1 at 6:30PM at our new Brookstown Mill space in downtown Winston Salem for a screening of his film LET THE FIRE BURN. This award winning film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and […]
Congratulations to 2nd year students Brian Gersten and Olivia Dubendorf! Their short film, The Hollerin’ Contest at Spivey’s Corner, will make its festival debut in November at the Underexposed Film Festival in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
DFP student Patricia Furnish recently attended the annual University Film and Video Association Conference both as a recipient of a student fellowship and as a paper presenter. As a UFVA fellow, Patricia received financial support to attend the conference at American University in Washington, D.C. and […]
UNC-TV’s North Carolina Now viewers recently got a sneak peek of Brian Gersten and Liv Dubendorf’s short film The Hollerin Contest at Spivey’s Corner. Watch as Liv Dubendorf and hollerin’ champ Robby Goodman take you through the history of this traditional form of communication and […]