Documentary Film and Video
My Aleppo Trailer by Melissa Langer (2015) from Stanford MFA in Documentary Film on Vimeo.
Students in the Documentary Film and Video Program become conversant with the documentary tradition as well as with alternative media and new directions in documentary. In addition to the training in documentary production, graduates gain substantive research skills in film criticism and film analysis. The MFA degree is designed to prepare students for professional careers in film, video, and digital media, with the qualifications to teach at the university level.
The non-production courses provide an intellectual and theoretical framework within which creative work is realized. The dual emphasis on production and theory classes fully prepares the student to undertake an academic position that typically requires the teaching of both film studies and media production.
The Independent 10 interviewed alums Mike Attie ('09) and Meghan O'Hara ('09) in an article about their recent film, In Country: 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014: In Country team (Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara, and Lindsay Utz). The Hollywood Reporter listed Stanford as one of the "Top 25 Film Schools of 2015". The Stanford Report spotlighted J. Christian Jensen ('13) who was nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category for his thesis film White Earth. The Stanford Daily conducted an interview with current grad Kristine Stolakis ('15) about filmmaking, her recent work and the absence of female directors in today's industry. The School of Humanities and Sciences has featured graduate students Rebekah Meredith ('11) and Maria Fortiz-Morse ('10) talking about the program. Faculty member Jan Krawitz was interviewed for the article "Should Aspiring Documentary Filmmakers Go To Film School?" on the POV website.
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