Student Work

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

Thesis films by Carlo Nassise, Enrique Pedráza-Botero and Dominic Yarabe to play at boundary-pushing fest

Films directed by Dominic Yarabe, Ethan Wu, Aurora Brachman and Reid Davenport selected for Sundance 2025

The film follows He’s father, an artist, in search of his childhood home in southwestern China, fulfilling a wish of his aging mother

Dominic Yarabe, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk premiere films at Telluride

Drew de Pinto’s documentary explores the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeon Park orders a time machine on eBay for her father's birthday

The online series is featuring four recent films from our MFA program

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

The film tells the multigenerational story of a society that deprives Black Americans of success

The online series has acquired four recent films from our MFA program

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’