ShopTalk with Ava Lowrey (’15) & DEMAN Weekend

The Duke MFA|EDA is pleased to welcome back Ava Lowrey (’15) as part of DEMAN Weekend (Duke Entertainment Media Arts Network), Nov 3-4, 2018. Among other DEMAN events, Ava will present a ShopTalk titled “Documenting the American South.” The talk is Friday November 3, 1:00 at the MFA|EDA Carpentry Shop (1509 Campus Drive). Ava currently… Continue reading ShopTalk with Ava Lowrey (’15) & DEMAN Weekend

MFA|EDA: The February Film Festival Four

We are very pleased to add continued congratulations to the following MFA|EDAs, all with film festival screenings this month. Congratulations! ________________________ Laura Doggett (’13) —  Another Kind of Girl and Children at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (and at SXSW next month). Anna Kipervaser (’15) — Cairo In One Breath at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Ava Lowrey… Continue reading MFA|EDA: The February Film Festival Four

MFA|EDA Alumni at 21st Annual Cucalorus Film Festival

Congratulations Laura Doggett (’13), Ava Lowrey (’15) and Aaron Kutnick (’15), all with films at the Cucalorus Film Festival, Nov 11-15 __________________________________________________ Laura Doggett produced Barriers of Separation, directed by Raghad Al Khatib, screening Thu Nov 12 at 10:00am. __________________________________________________ Ava Lowrey directed The Button King, screening Sat Nov 14 at 10:00am, and collaborated on… Continue reading MFA|EDA Alumni at 21st Annual Cucalorus Film Festival

MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Fall 2015 Playlist

          The latest MFA|EDA dispatches and achievements from near and far. Congratulations all. ___________________________ Amanda Berg, ’14: Exhibited at PhotoVille in New York City. ___________________________ Rachel Boillot ’14: With work featured in Feature Shoot and the Daily Mail UK, Rachel is exhibiting her current work, Silent Ballad at The Framer’s Corner through… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Fall 2015 Playlist

Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

___________________________________________ Randall Kenan, raised in the rural North Carolina community of Chinquapin, is the author of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, and The Fire This Time, among others.  He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the… Continue reading Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

MFA|EDA 2015: Thesis Exhibition P.R. Round Up

This spring, Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts will celebrate the successes of the class of 2015 in MFA|EDA 2015, the program’s annual thesis exhibition on view from March 20-April 18. Featuring site-specific projects by fourteen MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation,… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2015: Thesis Exhibition P.R. Round Up

MFA|EDA 2015 / Annual Thesis Exhibition / March 20-April 18

This spring, Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts will celebrate the successes of the class of 2015 in MFA|EDA 2015, the program’s annual thesis exhibition on view from March 20-April 18. Featuring site-specific projects by fourteen MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation,… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2015 / Annual Thesis Exhibition / March 20-April 18

MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Student Film + Video News

Class of 2015 MFA|EDA students Ava Lowrey, Libi Striegl and Anna Kipervaser in the news:   Congratulations to Ava Lowrey, MFA|EDA Class of 2015, whose film Fred: The Town Dog won the Audience Award at the Montgomery Film Festival, and continues its festival run at the Black Warrior Film Festival in February. Congratulations to Libi Striegl, MFA|EDA Class of… Continue reading MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Student Film + Video News

MFA|EDA Ava Lowrey (’15) at Heartland Film Festival

Duke University MFA|EDA student and filmmaker, Ava Lowrey, will be screening Fred: The Town Dog as part of the Heartland Film Festival, October 16-25 in Indianapolis. Lowrey will attend the screenings on the 19th and 20th and participating in Q&A afterwards. More info here. ___________________________________ Fred: The Town Dog at the Heartland Film Festival: 10/19/2014 – 7:30… Continue reading MFA|EDA Ava Lowrey (’15) at Heartland Film Festival

MFA|EDA Ava Lowrey (’15) at Sidewalk Film Festival

Duke University MFA|EDA student and filmmaker, Ava Lowrey, will be screening as part of the Sidewalk Film Festival this summer in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Lowrey’s short, Fred the Town Dog, will screen in the Alabama Documentary Shorts I program, Saturday, Aug 23 at 4:05pm. More information:  http://sidewalkfest.com/