Recent Accomplishments: Alumni
This is only a brief sample of our alumni's countless achievements.
Additionally, we are excited to announce that Peter Burr will be our Full-Time Visiting Artist for the next academic year. We look forward to welcoming him to our community.
Sean Buckelew
Sean Buckelew has won a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Zoe Sua Cho
Zoe Sua Cho co-produced and edited House of Hummingbird. The film won awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival and The Istanbul Film Festival. It will appear next at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison will participate in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Kevin B. Lee
Kevin B. Lee, in collaboration with Chloé Galibert-Laine, wrote an essay for Filmmaker Magazine on desktop documentary. They were also commissioned to create a new video essay on re-enactments by the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Alfredo Salazar-Caro's VR documentary project, Dreams of the Jaguar’s Daughter, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder will be showing her new film, Knives and Skin, at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
Shengze Zhu
Shengze Zhu premiered her film, Present.Perfect, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival where it won the Tiger Award, the festival’s top prize. Since then, her film has shown extensively on the festival circuit, including screenings at the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center, and as the closing film at the Frames of Representation at ICA. The film has been reviewed and discussed in Art Forum, Cinema Scope, Sight and Sound and The New Yorker.
