If you are in NYC, don’t miss the screenings of our Doc Studies alumni in DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival (Nov 8-15): Continue reading “Doc Studies alumni in the DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival”
Doc Studies alumna, Inés Vogelfang selected for DCTV NY’s 2018 Docu Work-In-Progress Lab
Congrats to Doc Studies alumna, Inés Vogelfang, whose project You Play Here was selected for DCTV NY’s 2018 Docu Work-In-Progress Lab. You Play Here started as a thesis film in Documentary Studies program and was later developed into an interactive/AR experience in the Emerging Media & Documentary Practice course. Continue reading “Doc Studies alumna, Inés Vogelfang selected for DCTV NY’s 2018 Docu Work-In-Progress Lab”
Nailed It, Adele!

Doc Studies alumna, Adele Free Pham, was recently featured on the Center for Asian American Media’s website. The conversation marks the release of her documentary ‘Nailed It’, which captures an unforgettable and often hilarious saga born of tragedy, charting the rise, struggle, stereotypes, and steady hold Vietnamese Americans have on today’s $8 billion dollar nail industry. Congrats, Adele!
Read a Q&A with Adele here
Alumna Olivia Ebert’s film ‘Russian Windows’ screened at the esteemed Camden International Film Festival.

The short documentary Russian Windows is a rumination on the web-based relationship of a Russian teacher stranded in Ghent, and her American student.
https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/films/shorts/shorts-plus/russian-windows/
Doc Studies alumnus Nathan Reich’s short film featured in New York Times Op-Docs
Nathan Reich recently had his beautifully shot, intimate documentary “Calving Season” featured on Season 6 of the New York Times Op-Docs.
“Calving Season” is a shortened version of Nathan’s longer film “The Warming Shed”.
Congrats, Nathan!
Alum Päivi Kankaro and her new company CraftJam
Päivi Kankaro is a Finnish graduate of the Doc Studies program, class of 2015. Since graduation, she has been working as a video producer and project manager at Kollabora, a DIY fashion startup. In February, with her friend Nora Abousteit, she also opened CraftJam, a Union Square craft workshop recently profiled in The New York Post.
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Stellar Week for New School Documentarians
Two graduates, Erin Davis from Doc Studies, and Mark Nickolas from the MA in Media Studies, will screen work in major festivals this week. A third, Doc Studies alum Ivana Todorovic, will be featured with her doc ‘A Harlem Mother’ in Wednesday’s New York Times (front page, Metro section). The films of both Doc Studies alums originated in the Doc Studies certificate program. Also from Doc Studies, is Mark Nickolas’ cinematographer Oscar Frasser.
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