The award-winning documentary offers an intimate portrait of Robinson Crusoe Island, a remote community off the coast of Chile.
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May 21, 2021
The filmmakers of FILM 30 Documentary Videomaking invite you to an online screening of new student videos Thursday, May 27th at 7PM. Please join Professor Jeffrey Ruoff and the class as they premiere an evening of new documentary films- followed by a live Q&A session....
February 12, 2021
Professor Jeffrey Ruoff joins Episode 1 of the new podcast Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV. The premiere episode centers on the landmark 1973 PBS docuseries An American Family.
August 10, 2020
"Under the Bridge", a documentary by Daniela Armas '20, Matt Gannon '22, and Malets Monthe '20, has won the Best Student Documentary award at the Global Impact Film Festival in Washington D.C.
May 07, 2020
A documentary produced in the fall FS30: Documentary Videomaking class was selected to screen at the Global Impact Film Festival in Washington, DC. Under the Bridge looks at a homeless camp in Hartford, VT, through the life of one of its inhabitants.
November 17, 2016
Emmy Award-nominated duo Ricki Stern ’87 and Annie Sundberg ’90 explore the deeply personal stories of three families of bombing survivors in Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing, which will premiere November 21st on HBO. Read more about the filmmakers, the film, and their Dartmouth alum crew, in this Dartmouth Alumni article....
November 04, 2016
Don't miss this night of student documentaries produced in Film Studies 30 Documentary Video on Wednesday, November 9th at 7PM in the Loew Theater, Black Family Visual Arts Center...
November 04, 2015
Sabra, a documentary about artist Sabra Field, was awarded both Audience Favorite and Best Film About a Vermonter at the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival
October 03, 2015
In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Dartmouth’s Jeffrey Ruoff writes that Abbas Fahdel's Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) is “the most significant work of art to come out of the Iraq war.”
June 10, 2015
Jeffrey Ruoff, a professor in the college’s Department of Film and Media Studies, oversaw the making of the documentary as part of his 10-week-long Film39 class. 'Students were very much cast under the spell of Walt', Ruoff said. The question was, Can we do a film that does justice to this guy's amazing story?'"...