Student Work
Students
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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
September 25, 2024
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Student and alumni films premiere at Telluride
Dominic Yarabe, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk premiere films at Telluride
August 30, 2024
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Drew de Pinto’s thesis film on The New Yorker Video
Drew de Pinto’s documentary explores the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
June 05, 2024
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Faye Tsakas’ thesis film premieres at SxSW, wins at HotDocs
Slice-of-life glimpse of preteen influencers wins praise.
May 05, 2024
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Dominic Yarabe’s HEADSHOT wins at Big Sky
Yarabe's first-year 16mm film wins Mini-Doc Artistic Vision Award
February 23, 2024
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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
April 25, 2023
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Stanford alumni and students at True/False
Lineup includes world premiere of Leslie Tai's How to Have an American Baby and US premiere of Faye Tsakas' and Enrique Pedraza Botero's Alpha Kings
February 21, 2023
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David Zucker's thesis film on The New Yorker Video
When Groundhog Day goes virtual, the small coal-mining town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, must face its uncertain future, in this documentary short by David Zucker
January 27, 2023
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Azza Cohen's thesis film on The New Yorker Video
Before she dies, the 82-year-old Bubbe wants to learn how to swim, as chronicled in a short documentary by her granddaughter, Azza Cohen
January 19, 2023
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Alpha Kings to premiere at IFF Rotterdam
First year Winter film by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero portrays a group of young men selling a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves online
December 20, 2022
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Drew de Pinto's thesis film nominated for IDA Award
Compton's '22 nominated for IDA's David L. Wolper Student Documentary Film Award
November 11, 2022
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Yeon Park's first-year spring film streams on the BBC
Yeon Park orders a time machine on eBay for her father's birthday
September 09, 2022
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The New Yorker acquires four more Stanford films
The online series is featuring four recent films from our MFA program
August 25, 2022
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Stanford student films win at BlackStar Film Festival
Thesis films by Adrian Burrell and Aurora Brachman win top honors for short docs at BlackStar
August 10, 2022
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Adrian Burrell's thesis film featured on The New Yorker
The film tells the multigenerational story of a society that deprives Black Americans of success
February 10, 2022
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New Yorker Video acquires four Stanford films
The online series has acquired four recent films from our MFA program
June 21, 2021
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Aurora Brachman's Spring quarter film premieres on NYT Op-Docs
Every night during the Covid-19 lockdown, hundreds of people from around the world gathered in a massive queer dance party known as ‘Club Quarantine’
September 22, 2020
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Yeon Park's film named Student Academy Award semifinalist
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.
July 19, 2020