Alumni Blog: Lamu Xiangqiu

Lamu Xiangqui’s 2021 thesis film, Walk Alone, takes place in her native Tibet – a place of breathtaking scenery and altitude.
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Julie Jang is having her film screen on Thursday, March 17th at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival!
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Oliver Slate-Greene

SVA alumnus Oliver Slate-Greene is releasing his first book!
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Julie Jang

Julie Jang graduated last year and is screening her thesis film as part of SVA’s After School Special on Friday, September 24th 8:00 pm.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Will Henry
SVA Alumnus Will Henry (2014) writes about producing his new documentary film, The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Sean Dermond

SVA alumnus Sean Dermond (BFA Film, 2008) shares his experience working as a costume designer on the low budget horror film Scare Me.
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2016 Alumnus Joe Ralko tells us why it’s important to take jobs outside your comfort zone and how a job as a clerk in the finance office for the CBS show Blue Bloods led to his short film being purchased by DIRECTV.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Sage Love

Sage Love (2019) writes about losing his grandfather – who gave him the inspiration to become an activist filmmaker – and finding the “proper” way to grieve as a Black man in America.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Bouquet Napussorn

2019 Alumnus Bouquet Napussorn writes about making her thesis film, submitting to festivals, having festival screenings canceled, and staying optimistic through it all.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Theo Le Sourd

Theo Le Sourd is one of four SVA recent graduates whose thesis films have been selected to screen at the First Look Festival.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Meicen Meng

Update: Meicen’s film premiered Monday November 9th, on GASH magazine, a digital magazine based in Berlin.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Alejandro Cortes

Back in November, faculty Dejan Georgevich, ASC was asked to bring an outstanding recent SVA graduate to accompany him to Cameraimage, a yearly festival celebrating the best and emerging cinematographers.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Paula Cury

2018 graduate Paula Curry just had her Thesis film Adrift given an Oscar qualifying run.
CONTINUE READING POSTBennett Elliott Produces Bisbee ’17

Two years ago, Emmy winner Bennett Elliott (BFA Film 2010) produced Robert Greene’s hybrid documentary Kate Plays Christine.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Bennett Elliott

Emmy-winning producer, Bennett Elliott, just got back from Sundance, where a hybrid documentary-fiction she produced won the Special Jury Award for Writing.
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