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_Stephanie_Diani-1392x884](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cathy_Yan_Stephanie_Diani-1392x884-1.jpg)
Cathy Yan – Birds of Prey (2020)
![MV5BNTBkMTUyZDAtZjc4ZC00MTNhLWI0MjItMDVmZDY4OTEzYzQyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjgxMzcxOTY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MV5BNTBkMTUyZDAtZjc4ZC00MTNhLWI0MjItMDVmZDY4OTEzYzQyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjgxMzcxOTY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg)
Sarah Enid Hagey – You Were My First Boyfriend
(2023)
![Warner Bros. Los Angeles Premiere of 'Clash of the Titans'](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/basil_iwanyk.jpg)
Basil Iwanyk – Producer & founder, Thunder Road Pictures
![portrait+from+ed+halter_7A_00066](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/portraitfromedhalter_7A_00066.jpeg)
Joshua Gen Solondz
![kasi-lemmons-960](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kasi-lemmons-960.jpg)
Kasi Lemmons – Harriet (2019)
![anisia-uzeyman-photo_56981_18339](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/anisia-uzeyman-photo_56981_18339.jpg)
Anisia Uzeyman – Neptune Frost (2021)
Fall 2023
![MV5BOTlhZDljZmQtZTU1OS00MTM5LWI3MGQtYTY0OTA2NTk1NDg0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjY1MTg4Mzc@._V1_](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MV5BOTlhZDljZmQtZTU1OS00MTM5LWI3MGQtYTY0OTA2NTk1NDg0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjY1MTg4Mzc@._V1_-scaled.jpg)
Laura Moss – Birth/Rebirth (2023)
![Josh-Profile-copy](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Josh-Profile-copy.jpg)
Josh Lewis – Hand-Made Films
![1_PMFtRN47a_lkbWwMW-T-QQ](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1_PMFtRN47a_lkbWwMW-T-QQ.jpg)
Ashley Michel Hoban – Dr. Death (Season 1, Ep. 1)
![image003](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image003.jpg)
Christopher Markus – Marvel Studios
![AN_01](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AN_01.webp)
Alison Nguyen
![MaryHelenaClark_10Feb2015](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MaryHelenaClark_10Feb2015.jpg)
Mary Helena Clark – A Common Sequence (2023)
![download (2)](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/download-2.png)
Nicole Newnham – Crip Camp (2020)
![3451_37564](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3451_37564.jpg)
Simon Liu
![image002](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image002.jpg)
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun (2022)
![download (1)](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/download-1.png)
James LeBrecht – Crip Camp (2020)
Spring 2023
![Abigail-Horton-and-Ryan-Dickie-768x512](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Abigail-Horton-and-Ryan-Dickie-768x512-1.jpg)
Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton – Blow Up My Life (2022)
![Donal-scaled](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Donal-scaled-1.jpg)
Donal Foreman – The Image You Missed (2018)
![Try Harder! - Director Debbie Lum](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/try-harder-director-debbie-lum_50611093756_o.jpg)
Debbie Lum – Try Harder (2021)
![News-and-Events-image-Meet-Vincent](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/News-and-Events-image-Meet-Vincent.jpeg)
![News-and-Events-image-Meet-Vincent](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/News-and-Events-image-Meet-Vincent.jpeg)
Vincent D’Alessandro – Bottom Feeders
![nick_pinkerton_photo_provided_by_nick_pinkerton.60b9351e1548d](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/nick_pinkerton_photo_provided_by_nick_pinkerton.60b9351e1548d.png)
Nick Pinkerton – Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
![Pineiro-Matias_radcliffe-TR](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pineiro-Matias_radcliffe-TR.jpeg)
Matias Pineiro – Isabella (2020)
![Antoneta-Alamat-Kusijanovic](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Antoneta-Alamat-Kusijanovic.webp)
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic – Murina (2021)
![MV5BYzczZjdmYTItZjY4NS00Y2ZlLTlhZTgtMTljYjEzOWJiYzgyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjY2MDEwNTI@._V1_](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MV5BYzczZjdmYTItZjY4NS00Y2ZlLTlhZTgtMTljYjEzOWJiYzgyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjY2MDEwNTI@._V1_.jpg)
Colin West – Linoleum
![download (3)](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/download-3.png)
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Fall 2022
![roger-beebe-in-office-2921ct7](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/roger-beebe-in-office-2921ct7.jpg)
Roger Beebe
![109199](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/109199.jpg)
Alexandra Cuesta – Territorio (2016) and Despedida (2013)
![2022 SCAD Savannah Film Festival](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/gocy4kfrlgawgqln89o3ii4du836-6490a2bbc28d95c4561baf98d4b3f3af.jpg)
Daniel Roher – Navalny (2022)
![jeff_rutherford.jpg.preset.600](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jeff_rutherford.jpg.preset.600.jpeg)
Jeff Rutherford – A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022)
![maria-judice](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/maria-judice.jpg)
Maria Judice – Elephant (2022)
![MV5BMjA5NzczODA2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE1NTMxODE@._V1_](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MV5BMjA5NzczODA2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE1NTMxODE@._V1_-scaled.jpg)
Joseph Krings – Captain Fantastic (2016)
![download (4)](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/download-4.png)
Shaka King – Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
![Wolfgang-Held](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Wolfgang-Held.jpg)
Wolfgang Held
![Vera-Bruner-Sung](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vera-Bruner-Sung.jpg)
Vera Bruner-Sung
![Iva-Radivojevic](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Iva-Radivojevic.png)
Iva Radivojevic – Utuqaq (2020)
![Adam-Nawrot](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Adam-Nawrot.png)
Adam Nawrot – Godspeed, Los Polacos! (2020)
![Ramin-Bahrani](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ramin-Bahrani.jpg)
Ramin Bahrani – The White Tiger (2021)
![Blerta-Basholli](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Blerta-Basholli.jpg)
Blerta Basholli – The Hive (2021)
![Kersti-Jan-Werdal](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Kersti-Jan-Werdal.png)
Kersti Jan Werdal – Lake Forest Park (2021)
Fall 2021
![Fernando-Frias](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fernando-Frias.jpg)
Fernando Frias – OUT OF BREATH (2018)
![Vika-Kirchenbauer](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vika-Kirchenbauer.jpg)
Vika Kirchenbauer
![Bob-Eisenhardt](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bob-Eisenhardt.png)
Bob Eisenhardt
![Kirsten-Johnson](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Kirsten-Johnson.png)
Kirsten Johnson – Dick Johnston is Dead (2020)
![Akosua-Adoma-Owusu](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Akosua-Adoma-Owusu.jpg)
Akosua Adoma Owusu
![Jeanne-Liotta](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jeanne-Liotta.jpg)
Jeanne Liotta
![Nanfu-Wang](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Nanfu-Wang.png)
Nanfu Wang – In The Same Breath (2021)
![Sara-Shaw](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Sara-Shaw.png)
Sara Shaw – Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Spring 2021
![hein seok](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/hein-seok-400x400.jpeg)
Hein Seok – OUT OF BREATH (2018)
![Sofia Bohdanowicz](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sofia-Bohdanowicz.jpg)
Sofia Bohdanowicz
![thymaya payne](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/thymaya-payne-400x400.jpg)
Thymaya Payne – Stolen Seas (2013)
![Anal_Shah2](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Anal_Shah2.jpg)
Anal Shah
![Angela Shanelec](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Angela-Shanelec-.jpg)
Angela Shanelec – I Was at Home, But… (2019)
![tala hadid](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tala-hadid-400x400.jpeg)
Tala Hadid – House in the Fields (2021)
![Ampas New Members Reception 2019, London, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2019](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Robert-Eggers--scaled.jpg)
Robert Eggers – The Lighthouse (2019)
Fall 2020
![Tayarisha-Poe](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Tayarisha-Poe-400x400.jpeg)
Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades (2019)
![Phil Bertelsen](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Phil-Bertelsen-400x333.jpg)
Phil Bertelsen – Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020)
![Tanya_Hamilton](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Tanya_Hamilton.png)
Tanya Hamilton – Night Catches Us (2010)
![nicolas-pereda](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/nicolas-pereda-400x400.jpeg)
Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020)
![Kevin Jerome Everson](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kevin-Jerome-Everson.jpg)
Kevin Jerome Everson
![feras fayyad](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/feras-fayyad-400x383.jpeg)
Feras Fayyad – Last Men at Aleppo (2017)
![Maya Da Rin](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Maya-Da-Rin-.jpg)
Maya Da Rin – The Fever (2020)
![Khalik Allah](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Khalik-Allah-.jpg)
Khalik Allah – Black Mother (2018)
![Antoine Bourges](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Antoine-Bourges.jpg)
Antoine Bourges – East Hastings Pharmacy (2012)
Spring 2020
![Bing-Liu](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Bing-Liu-400x400.jpg)
Bing Liu – Minding the Gap (2018)
![james kienitz wilkins](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/james-kienitz-wilkins.jpg)
James Kienitz Wilkins – The Plagiarists (2019)
![Julia Reichart Steve Bognar](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Julia-Reichart-Steve-Bognar-400x400.jpg)
Julia Reichert & Steve Bognar – American Factory (2019)
![Alena Smith](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Alena-Smith-400x400.jpeg)
Alena Smith – Dickinson (2019)
![Ira Sachs](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Ira-Sachs.jpg)
Ira Sachs – Little Men (2016)
![IndieWire Consider This FYC Brunch](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Alexander-Mora-400x400.jpeg)
Alexander Mora – The Nightcrawlers (2019)
![Sky_Hopinka](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Sky_Hopinka-400x380.png)
Sky Hopinka
Fall 2019
![Daniel Schmidt 212](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Daniel-Schmidt-212-1.png)
Daniel Schmidt – Diamantino (2018)
![Sarah Christman](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sarah-Christman-1-400x400.jpg)
Sarah Christman – Swarm Season (2019)
![Elegance-Bratton-Headshot[2]](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Elegance-Bratton-Headshot2-1-400x400.jpg)
Elegance Bratton – Pier Kids: The Life (2013)
![Simon Lereng Wilmont](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Simon-Lereng-Wilmont-1-400x400.jpg)
Simon Lereng Wilmont – The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
![Josh & Bennie Safdie](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Josh-Bennie-Safdie-1-400x400.jpg)
Josh & Benny Safdie – Good Time (2017)
![Mark-Levinson](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Mark-Levinson-400x400.jpg)
Mark Levinson – Particle Fever (2013)
![RaMell-Ross-Headshot](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/RaMell-Ross-Headshot-400x400.jpg)
RaMell Ross – Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
![Joshua-Bonnetta-Headshot-3[6]](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Joshua-Bonnetta-Headshot-36-400x400.jpg)
Joshua Bonnetta – Various works by Bonetta, who works with sound and analogue film across installation and cinema exhibition.
Spring 2019
![James_Longley](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/James-Longley-400x400.jpg)
James Longley – Angels Are Made of Light (2018), Iraq in Fragments (2006), Gaza Strip (2002)
![Dustin Defa](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Dustin-Defa.jpg)
Dustin Defa – Person to Person (2017), Dramatic Relationships (2016), Bad Fever (2011)
![Mollye Asher](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Mollye-Asher.jpg)
Mollye Asher – The Rider (2017), Fort Tilden (2014), Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
![Pacho Velez](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Pacho-Velez.jpg)
Pacho Velez – The American Sector (2019), The Reagan Show (2017), Bastards of Utopia (2010)
![Luo Li](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Luo-Li-400x400.jpg)
Luo Li – Li Wen man you Dong Hu (2015), Emperor Visits the Hell (2012), Rivers and My Father (2010)
![Betsy West](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Betsy-West.jpg)
Betsy West – RBG (2018), The Lavender Scare (2017), Constantine’s Sword (2007)
![Zaheed Mawani 2](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Zaheed-Mawani-2-400x400.jpg)
Zaheed Mawani – Harvest Moon (2018), Three Walls (2011)
![Anna Zamecka](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Anna-Zamecka-400x400.jpg)
Anna Zamecka – Komunia (2016)
Fall 2018
![Thomas Lennon hi-res](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Thomas-Lennon-hi-res-400x400.jpg)
Thomas Lennon – Knife Skills (2017), Sacred (2016), The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006)
![David Siegel and Scott McGehee](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/David-Siegel-and-Scott-McGehee.jpg)
Scott McGehee and David Siegel – The Deep End (2001), Suture (1993), Uncertainty (2008)
![at arrivals for THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE Series Premiere on Starz, The Paris Theatre, New York, NY March 30, 2016. Photo By: Lev Radin/Everett Collection](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Kerrigan_Lodge-400x400.jpg)
Lodge Kerrigan – Keane (2004), Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire Dolan (1998)
![LWolkstein_pic_300dpi](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LWolkstein_pic_300dpi-400x400.jpg)
Lauren Wolkstein – The Strange Ones (2017), Cigarette Candy (2009), Collective: Unconscious (2016)
![geremy_jasper](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/geremy_jasper-400x400.jpg)
Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$ (2017), Glamouriety (2012), Outlaws (2015)
![Fowler_Luke](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Fowler_Luke.jpg)
Luke Fowler – What You See Is Where You’re At (2001), Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2005), All Divided Selves (2011)
![Olshefski_Jonathan](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Olshefski_Jonathan.jpg)
Jonathan Olshefski – Quest (2017), The Dance Lesson (2010), Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion, Their Pain (2015)
Spring 2018
![Granik_Debra](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Granik_Debra.jpg)
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone (2010), Leave No Trace (2018), Down to the Bone (2004)
![Naishtat-Benjamin](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Naishtat-Benjamin.jpg)
Benjamin Naishtat – History of Fear (2014), Rojo (2018), The Movement (2015)
![Russell_Ben](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Russell_Ben.jpg)
Ben Russell – Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), Spell the Ward Off the Darkness (2013), Good Luck (2017)
![Sancho_Natalia](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sancho_Natalia.jpg)
Natalia Marin Sancho – Los Materiales (2010), New Madrid (2016), La Casa De Julio Iglesias (2018)
![Story_Brett](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Story_Brett.jpeg)
Brett Story – The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016), Land of Destiny (2016), The Visible Will vs. The Invisible Wall (2007)
![Sutcliffe_David](https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sutcliffe_David.jpg)
David Felix Sutcliffe – (T)ERROR (2015), Adama (2011), White Fright (2018)