2017 SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER Traffic Stop tells the story of Breaion King, a 26 year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas who is stopped for a routine traffic violation that escalates into a dramatic arrest. Caught on police dashcams, Breaion is pulled from her car by the arresting officer, repeatedly thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. En route […]
Used is a documentary that explores the world of used underwear purchasing and selling. The documentary includes candid interviews with men who buy and sell used underwear, as well as a paraphilia specialist.
In 2014, the extremist organization Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from a town in northeastern Nigeria. Waiting for Hassana is a harrowing first-person account of one girl’s escape from captivity and a heart-wrenching lament for her closest friend Hassana — one of the many girls still unaccounted for.
Water Warriors is the story of a community’s successful resistance against the oil and gas industry. When an energy company begins searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, indigenous and white families unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.
Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to one woman […]
NYC PREMIERE A family of Ponderai Native Americans embark on a controversial journey through Yellowstone to exercise their treaty hunting rights – glimpsing into the continued marginalization of indigenous life in the American West and challenging our expectations of what it means to assert a tribal heritage in the modern world.
The Integrated Media Arts M.F.A. Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York combines traditional documentary film production with new and emerging media arts. The IMA embraces an expanded idea of socially engaged non-fiction media on both a platform and a formal level. Our students and alumni have exhibited at HotDocs, IDFA, […]
New York Film Academy students learn to make films by making films. Intensive, hands-on Conservatory and MFA programs in Documentary Filmmaking, as well as short-term workshops, pair rigorous instruction with mentoring in order to support students as they work on a series of their own documentary films. Under the guidance of a worldclass faculty, this […]
Students in The Documentary Project at Columbia learn to write, film and narrate the stories of our time, from deadline reporting to profile writing and documentary features. Successful candidates have leveraged their work to include magazine features, NPR radio stories and newspaper articles Columbia’s showcase includes: In Blind Date (USA, 35 min., Nicole Ellis, Maya […]
The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Social Documentary Film program teaches the artistic skills and techniques needed to tell compelling true stories that stimulate meaningful dialogue. SocDoc not only teaches the fundamentals of great storytelling, but guides students toward a career in the thriving documentary industry. The award winning-faculty is helmed by producer Maro Chermayeff […]