MFA in Film Archive

In this season of giving thanks and celebrating connections, we are grateful to everyone in the VCFA community.

In the summer of 2021, we spoke to Film ('19) alumnx Tamara Perkins about her media activism and her journey with documentary filmmaking. After the...

Tyler Taormina is a film director based in Los Angeles whose debut film, HAM ON RYE, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and went on to...

Travis Wilkerson's internationally recognized body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. At the epicenter of his work is the ongoing...

Sahra Mani is a multiple award-winning filmmaker. She received her master's degree in documentary filmmaking from the University of Arts London with high distinction and...

Nora Fingscheidt was born in 1983 in Germany and spent her youth partly in Argentina. From 2003 onward she participated in the development of the...

Joshua L. Pearson is an editor based in New York. After graduating with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986,...

Joseph Patel is an award-winning producer, director, and writer on documentaries and short films. He recently produced the feature documentary SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN...

Son of marine biologists, raised in the Pacific Northwest, James combined an interest in Russian language with a fascination for filmmaking and set out to...

Diane Paragas is an award-winning writer/director, editor, cinematographer, and producer of narrative features, documentaries, and commercials.