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Nov 27 2015 | IDFA website | Posted In: Students
Documentary Film and Video
Melissa Langer, 2015 MFA graduate of the Documentary Film and Video Program in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, recently won the ARRI IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary for her thesis film, My Aleppo.  One of fifteen films competing in the competition, the jury...
Jan 16 2015 | Stanford News, The Dish | Posted In: Awards
Documentary Film and Video
Silver might beget gold for documentary filmmaker and Stanford lecturer J. CHRISTIAN JENSEN, MFA ’13.  In June 2014 he won a silver medal from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Academy Awards for his film White Earth, a winter portrait of North Dakota’s oil boom seen through...
Art Practice
The Stanford Art Gallery welcomed a record-breaking 10,303 visitors during the fall quarter to the undergraduate juried exhibition, All Tomorrow's Parties. This exhibition was not only unique for more than doubling the attendance of previous exhibitions, but it also marked the first time that...
Nov 13 2014 | New York Times | Posted In: Faculty, Staff, Students
Art History, Art Practice, Design, Documentary Film and Video, Film and Media Studies
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The birthplace of Yahoo and Google, Stanford University is now ramping up and showing off its cultural resources. Construction of a $235 million arts district near Palm Drive, the grand tree-lined campus entrance, is well underway here. Last year, the $112 million Bing Concert...
Oct 6 2014 | Stanford Report | Posted In: Faculty
Documentary Film and Video
Henry S. Breitrose, the founder and "lodestar" of Stanford's world-renowned graduate program in documentary filmmaking, died Oct. 2 at his campus home.  He was 78. Colleagues described Breitrose, who taught the history of film and film aesthetics at Stanford for more than five decades, as a man "...

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