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December 4, 2024

Shuchi Talati

Shuchi Talati is a filmmaker from India whose work challenges dominant narratives around gender, sexuality, and South Asian identity. Her feature film, Girls Will Be...
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December 4, 2024

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ films, social activism and passion center on veterans, mental health and common sense gun safety. Enlisting in the military out high school and...
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December 4, 2024

Emily Schweber, CSA

Emily Schweber is a feature film casting director and has cast over 100 movies. With an art degree in printmaking from Sonoma State University, Emily...
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December 4, 2024

Michèle Stephenson

Emmy award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author Michèle Stephenson draws from her Haitian and Panamanian heritage and experience as a social justice lawyer to transform non-fiction...
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December 4, 2024

Anu Valia

Anu Valia is a writer/director whose roots are in India and Indiana. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Anu’s work has screened...
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News December 4, 2024

Announcing VCFA’s 2025 Winter-Spring Faculty Roster

In anticipation of our winter 2025 residency—taking place on the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) campus in Valencia, CA from January 3-11, 2025—our six...
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News December 4, 2024
December 3, 2024

Benjamin Font

Benjamin Font is an up-and-coming writer/director whose film career began as the co-writer of Robert Schwartzman’s Dreamland, which premiered at Tribeca and was released by...
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October 31, 2024

FACULTY STORY: Daphne McWilliams

Art has been a home for Daphne McWilliams for her entire life—literally. McWilliams was on a set running scenes as a child actor before she’d...
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August 12, 2024

FACULTY NEWS: Damon Davis Recognized by CBS for Social Justice Work

Damon Davis (F ’20) is an award-winning, post-disciplinary artist based in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 2020 VCFA MFA in Film alumnx and current Film...
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June 27, 2024

Raven Jackson

Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions as well as the...
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