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Hollerin’ Earns its First Laurel

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.


Furnish Represents DFP at UFVA

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 Features Student Short

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 […]


DFP Moves Downtown

It is an exciting day at the DFP!  We are moving our offices and classroom space to downtown Winston-Salem.  The program will now be located 10 minutes from the Wake Forest campus in the Historic Brookstown Mill at 200 Brookstown Avenue. This former cotton […]


MFA Film at Independent Film Week

Happy to share the exciting news that Cameron Bargerstock’s (MFA ’14) film Exit Music is among the 140 projects selected for the esteemed Project Forum at IFP Independent Film Week. The film, executive produced by DFP Professor of Practice Peter Gilbert, is one of […]


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