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Reid Davenport Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
Stanford MFA alum receives the prestigious fellowship in Film-Video.
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Stanford Alumni Films Premiere at 2026 Tribeca
Documentary films by Stanford MFA alumni are screening at Tribeca 2025, including a World Premiere that reimagines a former institution's dark history through performance.
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Stanford Doc Program Alumni Earn 2026 Emmy Nominations
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
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Stanford Alumni and Students Featured at SFIFF
Numerous alumni and one current MFA student have work screening at SFIFF, ranging from labor organizing to Girl Scout cookies, longevity hacking history to personal narratives
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American Pachuco Wins at 2026 Sundance Film Festival
The documentary by David Alvarado ’10 won the “Audience Award: U.S. Documentary” and the “Festival Favorite Award.”
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Natalia Almada returns to Sundance as a Juror
Almada will be part of the judging panel for the U.S. documentary competition.
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Three Stanford thesis films at True/False Film Festival
Thesis films by Carlo Nassise, Enrique Pedráza-Botero and Dominic Yarabe to play at boundary-pushing fest
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Reid Davenport's LIFE AFTER wins Special Jury Award at Sundance
Stanford MFA alum's documentary on disability rights and end-of-life debates praised for its "unflinching approach" to complex ethical questions
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Sundance to feature five films with ties to Stanford documentary program
Films directed by Dominic Yarabe, Ethan Wu, Aurora Brachman and Reid Davenport selected for Sundance 2025
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Shirley He’s thesis film to premiere at IDFA
The film follows He’s father, an artist, in search of his childhood home in southwestern China, fulfilling a wish of his aging mother
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Elizabeth Lo’s MISTRESS DISPELLER awarded in Venice
Lo's second feature focuses on a new industry devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity
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Stanford alumni and faculty win ITVS grants
Work by alums Reid Davenport, Laura Gamse, professor Jamie Meltzer and others receives ITVS funding.
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Student and alumni films premiere at Telluride
Dominic Yarabe, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk premiere films at Telluride
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Faye Tsakas’ thesis film premieres at SxSW, wins at HotDocs
Slice-of-life glimpse of preteen influencers wins praise.
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"If documentaries are your thing, there’s hardly a better place than Stanford" - TheWrap
Stanford again named top documentary program in TheWrap's annual film school ranking
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Two Stanford alumnae named in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film
Faye Tsakas (MFA '23) and Aurora Brachman (MFA '21) featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 2023 selection of up-and-coming filmmakers
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Stanford films and students awarded at SFFILM Festival
Aurora Brachman's (MFA '21) thesis film wins Bay Area Short Film Prize
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Reid Davenport wins at Independent Spirit Awards
Stanford MFA Documentary Film alum picks up Truer Than Fiction Award for his debut feature "I Didn't See You There"
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Museum of the Revolution wins Best Feature at Big Sky
Feature-length documentary by faculty member Srđan Keča tells the story of three women living in the remnants of an utopian architectural project
