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Reid Davenport (MFA '16) has been named a 2026 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Film-Video. The fellowship was announced April 15, 2026.
Davenport makes films about disability from an overtly political perspective.…
Stanford documentary alumni are represented across multiple premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.
The Haunting of Pennhurst, screening in the Escape From Tribeca section as a World Premiere, is co-directed and co-…
The Department of Art & Art History is proud to announce that alumni Miguel Novelo (MFA ’22) and Rhonda Holberton (MFA ’12) have been named 2026 Knight Arts + Tech Fellows. The annual fellowship supports five artists with unrestricted grants…
Still from Life After (2025)
Reid Davenport (MFA '16) earned a nomination for Outstanding Directing: Documentary for Life After, which tells the story of Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled Californian woman whose 1983 fight for the "right to die" sparked a national…
Still from Who Moves America (2026)
The San Francisco International Film Festival is showcasing multiple connections to Stanford's documentary program this year.
Yael Bridge (MFA '13) directed and produced Who Moves America, which follows UPS Teamsters as…