About Film/Video/Digital
The Film/Video/Digital Program (FVD) was founded in 1986 by Professor Jane Gaines. It is currently directed by David L. Paletz, Professor of Political Science.
In collaboration with many departments and interdisciplinary centers at Duke, FVD 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 FVD and Center for Documentary Studies, Bonnie Cutler, instructor for the Editing the TV Documentary course, and Dante James, Visiting Artist at Duke in 2006-07, who is currently teaching Adapting Literature--Producing Film.