Migrating Forms, the festival that has grown out of the now defunct New York Underground Film Festival. They are trying to expand their outreach to students who may not be able to afford to submit to many festivals.

Their festival typically shows experimental films and videos, if any of the students and/or instructors in your department have work that might fit with our programming, we are offering a highly discounted “batch submission” educational rate. Film/video departments may submit a single package of various student and faculty work for $10 per entry (per entry, not per entrant). Ordinarily, our entry fees range form $30 to $50 per entry. Departments are welcome to send as many entries as they like, so long as there is a minimum of five.

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All required application materials (except the online application and application fee) must be received together in one package by the Office of Graduate Admissions.

We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis until the program begins in the fall 2009. Applications will be reviewed by the admissions committee as they are submitted. The first round of acceptance letters will be sent to students in April 2009.

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Applications for the fall 2009 semester are no longer being accepted as of 5/1/09. Please email mbhattacharya@sva.edu for more information.

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Application Information:

The deadline for submitting applications for the 2009-2011 MFA Social Documentary Film program is January 15th 2009, however we will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis until all places are filled with exceptional candidates.

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This is a great course for anyone who is interested in documentary still photography.

Documentary photography : introduction to the city. Students will explore the city and use photographs to document issues of interest and concern. Focus will be placed on the techniques that make photographs more successful at communicating the image. Students will develop a semester-long project that will be reviewed weekly. Lectures and slide presentations on great documentary photographers will be presented along with guest lecturers, field trips and field assignments.

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VOLUNTEER SCREENERS

SILVERDOCS, the “pre-eminent documentary festival in the US” (Screen International) seeks Volunteer Screeners to be an integral part of the programming team. Screeners review a minimum of 40 feature and short (combined) documentaries submitted to SILVERDOCS 2009. Potential Screeners should have a critical eye and knowledge of film, and be able to write articulate and concise evaluations of the films they review. Screeners must have a DVD player, reliable Internet access and a qualified point of view. Regular access to a multiregion DVD player is a plus. Screeners are required to pick up films for review at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Md., during regular business hours.

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The information session on Saturday, November 8th was a rousing success!

The event began with a documentary highlight film featuring clips from faculty films and some other of our favorite docs of all time. The film was followed by faculty presentations from Maro Chermayeff, Deborah Dickson, Maryann DeLeo, Matthew Akers, Ann Collins and Sam Pollard speaking about the core classes in Directing, Producing, Editing, Visionary Journalism and Cinematography. The event ended with a lively Q&A; session that lasted for well over an hour.

If you missed the information session on November 8th – don’t worry! You can email mfasocdoc@sva.edu to schedule a phone or in-person informational meeting.