About Film/Video/Digital's name change to the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image
A brief history: The Film & Video Program was founded in 1986 by Professor Jane Gaines. It was renamed the Film/Video/Digital program in 2004. From July 2005 to June 2008 it was directed by David L. Paletz, Professor of Political Science. In July 2008, Associate Professor Stanley K. Abe became director for the program. In May, 2009, the program officially became the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).
In collaboration with many departments and interdisciplinary centers at Duke, AMI organizes and coordinates Screen/Society, an academically integrated program of public film and video screenings, sometimes accompanied with lectures, discussions, or filmmaker visits. For the advanced student, the program offers numerous opportunities for independent study, and internships for course credit such as those with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival of North Carolina, and the Duke in Los Angeles program in Media Arts and Industries which was started in 1997.
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Our Adjunct Faculty members include four Emmy winners. Fred Burns, instructor in Animation and Intermediate Animation, won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievment for Animated Programming for "A Soldier's Tale" in 1983.
The program's other Emmy winners are Gary Hawkins, Adjunct faculty member for AMI and Center for Documentary Studies, Bonnie Cutler, instructor for the Editing the TV Documentary course, and Dante James, Visiting Artist at Duke, who produced "The Doll" film with his spring 2007 Adapting Literature--Producing Film class .
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