Awards

Stanford documentary alumni have been nominated for News & Documentary Emmy Awards including directing and producing nods for a film about disability rights and editing recognition for a climate crisis investigation

The documentary by David Alvarado ’10 won the “Audience Award: U.S. Documentary” and the “Festival Favorite Award.”

Lo's second feature focuses on a new industry devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity

Slice-of-life glimpse of preteen influencers wins praise.

Yarabe's first-year 16mm film wins Mini-Doc Artistic Vision Award

Drew de Pinto, an alum of Stanford's MFA in Documentary Film program, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2023 New Voices Filmmaker Grant, awarded by Netflix and NewFest. This grant recognizes emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers.

Aurora Brachman's (MFA '21) thesis film wins Bay Area Short Film Prize

Stanford MFA Documentary Film alum picks up Truer Than Fiction Award for his debut feature "I Didn't See You There"

Stanford alum and lecturer wins the Sundance Documentary Directing Award for his latest feature "A Still Small Voice"

Compton's '22 nominated for IDA's David L. Wolper Student Documentary Film Award

Thesis films by Adrian Burrell and Aurora Brachman win top honors for short docs at BlackStar

In his film, Davenport offers an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency

A young woman buys a time machine for her father off of eBay. With the mysterious device, she begins an unexpected journey through her father's memory.

Lo's ('15) debut feature making big waves