MFA in Film Archive

In the spring of 2023, VCFA Film alumnx Jeff Bemiss (F ‘19) received a 2022 Peabody Award for his documentary MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY (co-directed...

Class of 2019 Film alumnx Jeff Bemiss was recognized with a 2022 Peabody Award for his 2020 documentary MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY (co-directed by Lisa...

Meet filmmaker and class of 2024 Film candidate Callie Newsom Doyle, one of six recipients of our 2022 VCFA Center for Arts + Social Justice...

Silas Howard is a director and writer focused on telling honest narratives filled with groundbreaking characters. His credits include executive producing and directing on FX’s...

Artist/Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson has made over two-hundred films including TONSLER PARK; THE ISLAND OF SAINT MATTHEWS; ERIE; EARS, NOSE AND THROAT; SOUND THAT; SUGARCOATED...

Marq Evans is an award-winning independent filmmaker. His most recent documentary, CLAYDREAM, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and had an extensive theatrical run...

In 2002, THE LAST MEAL, a dive into the absurd and the horror of Huntsville, Texas—capital of the death penalty in the USA—was his first...

In the summer of 2022, we interviewed Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellowship Grant recipient Jen Gilomen (Film ’23) on her film DELIVERING JUSTICE....

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is an Indian-American filmmaker, born in Tirupati, India, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Trained at NYU Graduate Film, Prashanth has previously been...

Shatara Michelle Ford (they/she) is an African American filmmaker born in Arkansas, raised in Missouri, and based in Central Pennsylvania. Ford’s films explore memory, perception,...