Filmmaking
Visiting
Filmmaker Series
The Rutgers Filmmaking Center presents a variety of documentary and narrative features, followed by Q&As with directors. Students participate in stimulating conversations with up-and-coming and established filmmakers at intimate screenings held on the Rutgers–New Brunswick campus.
Spring 2024
Cathy Yan – Birds of Prey (2020)
Sarah Enid Hagey – You Were My First Boyfriend
(2023)
Basil Iwanyk – Producer & founder, Thunder Road Pictures
Joshua Gen Solondz
Kasi Lemmons – Harriet (2019)
Anisia Uzeyman – Neptune Frost (2021)
Fall 2023
Laura Moss – Birth/Rebirth (2023)
Josh Lewis – Hand-Made Films
Ashley Michel Hoban – Dr. Death (Season 1, Ep. 1)
Christopher Markus – Marvel Studios
Alison Nguyen
Mary Helena Clark – A Common Sequence (2023)
Nicole Newnham – Crip Camp (2020)
Simon Liu
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun (2022)
James LeBrecht – Crip Camp (2020)
Spring 2023
Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton – Blow Up My Life (2022)
Donal Foreman – The Image You Missed (2018)
Debbie Lum – Try Harder (2021)
Vincent D’Alessandro – Bottom Feeders
Nick Pinkerton – Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Matias Pineiro – Isabella (2020)
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic – Murina (2021)
Colin West – Linoleum
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Fall 2022
Roger Beebe
Alexandra Cuesta – Territorio (2016) and Despedida (2013)
Daniel Roher – Navalny (2022)
Jeff Rutherford – A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022)
Maria Judice – Elephant (2022)
Joseph Krings – Captain Fantastic (2016)
Shaka King – Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Wolfgang Held
Vera Bruner-Sung
Iva Radivojevic – Utuqaq (2020)
Adam Nawrot – Godspeed, Los Polacos! (2020)
Ramin Bahrani – The White Tiger (2021)
Blerta Basholli – The Hive (2021)
Kersti Jan Werdal – Lake Forest Park (2021)
Fall 2021
Fernando Frias – OUT OF BREATH (2018)
Vika Kirchenbauer
Bob Eisenhardt
Kirsten Johnson – Dick Johnston is Dead (2020)
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Jeanne Liotta
Nanfu Wang – In The Same Breath (2021)
Sara Shaw – Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Spring 2021
Hein Seok – OUT OF BREATH (2018)
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Thymaya Payne – Stolen Seas (2013)
Anal Shah
Angela Shanelec – I Was at Home, But… (2019)
Tala Hadid – House in the Fields (2021)
Robert Eggers – The Lighthouse (2019)
Fall 2020
Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades (2019)
Phil Bertelsen – Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020)
Tanya Hamilton – Night Catches Us (2010)
Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020)
Kevin Jerome Everson
Feras Fayyad – Last Men at Aleppo (2017)
Maya Da Rin – The Fever (2020)
Khalik Allah – Black Mother (2018)
Antoine Bourges – East Hastings Pharmacy (2012)
Spring 2020
Bing Liu – Minding the Gap (2018)
James Kienitz Wilkins – The Plagiarists (2019)
Julia Reichert & Steve Bognar – American Factory (2019)
Alena Smith – Dickinson (2019)
Ira Sachs – Little Men (2016)
Alexander Mora – The Nightcrawlers (2019)
Sky Hopinka
Fall 2019
Daniel Schmidt – Diamantino (2018)
Sarah Christman – Swarm Season (2019)
Elegance Bratton – Pier Kids: The Life (2013)
Simon Lereng Wilmont – The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
Josh & Benny Safdie – Good Time (2017)
Mark Levinson – Particle Fever (2013)
RaMell Ross – Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Joshua Bonnetta – Various works by Bonetta, who works with sound and analogue film across installation and cinema exhibition.
Spring 2019
James Longley – Angels Are Made of Light (2018), Iraq in Fragments (2006), Gaza Strip (2002)
Dustin Defa – Person to Person (2017), Dramatic Relationships (2016), Bad Fever (2011)
Mollye Asher – The Rider (2017), Fort Tilden (2014), Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Pacho Velez – The American Sector (2019), The Reagan Show (2017), Bastards of Utopia (2010)
Luo Li – Li Wen man you Dong Hu (2015), Emperor Visits the Hell (2012), Rivers and My Father (2010)
Betsy West – RBG (2018), The Lavender Scare (2017), Constantine’s Sword (2007)
Zaheed Mawani – Harvest Moon (2018), Three Walls (2011)
Anna Zamecka – Komunia (2016)
Fall 2018
Thomas Lennon – Knife Skills (2017), Sacred (2016), The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006)
Scott McGehee and David Siegel – The Deep End (2001), Suture (1993), Uncertainty (2008)
Lodge Kerrigan – Keane (2004), Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire Dolan (1998)
Lauren Wolkstein – The Strange Ones (2017), Cigarette Candy (2009), Collective: Unconscious (2016)
Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$ (2017), Glamouriety (2012), Outlaws (2015)
Luke Fowler – What You See Is Where You’re At (2001), Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2005), All Divided Selves (2011)
Jonathan Olshefski – Quest (2017), The Dance Lesson (2010), Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion, Their Pain (2015)
Spring 2018
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone (2010), Leave No Trace (2018), Down to the Bone (2004)
Benjamin Naishtat – History of Fear (2014), Rojo (2018), The Movement (2015)
Ben Russell – Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), Spell the Ward Off the Darkness (2013), Good Luck (2017)
Natalia Marin Sancho – Los Materiales (2010), New Madrid (2016), La Casa De Julio Iglesias (2018)
Brett Story – The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016), Land of Destiny (2016), The Visible Will vs. The Invisible Wall (2007)
David Felix Sutcliffe – (T)ERROR (2015), Adama (2011), White Fright (2018)