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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…
Susana Barrón, a 2022 graduate of Stanford's Documentary Film MFA program, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Ruben Salazar Digital Award for her story, “An LA day laborer was deported to Mexico. His dog was left behind,” published by LA…
On March 11, Provost Jenny Martinez and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Bonnie Maldonado recognized 202 Stanford University faculty members who were promoted with tenure and/or to full professor between Fall 2022 and Winter 2026 at the 2026…
John Ott (B.A. ’93, Art History and English) has published his third book, Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration, with University of California Press.
The volume examines the efforts of Black and white artists working…