Musician and Filmmaker Wins Best Soundtrack Award

Jeremy Rist of Funkleberry won the Best Sountrack award in a 10-day nationwide documentary filmaking contest.

Durham Native and Film Writer's "A Late Quartet" to Premier in Durham This Week

Durham native and film writer Seth Grossman's film, "A Late Quartet," will open this weekend, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener. The film will premier in Durham at Carolina Theatre on November 16 at 7 pm.

Durham Filmmaker Honored at Film Festival

Durham resident and filmmaker Jim Haverkamp has been selected as the Cucalorus Film festival's honoree for its second annual North Carolina Filmmaker Retrospective Nov. 8-11 in Wilmington, NC.

Duke Filmmaker Wins Film Festival Contest With One Minute Watermelon Film

Duke University filmmaker and associate director and instructor in the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, Josh Gibson took the grand prize at the Slamdance 2012 film festival in Park City, UT for his one-minute film about watermelon. The grand prize for Panasonic's "Five Flavors of Filmmaking" contest was an AF100 Large Imager HD Cinema camera.

Films by Three Duke Profs Premiere at New York Film Festival

Works by three Duke faculty members premiered at the New York Film Festival's “Views From the Avant-Garde,” a series which showcases experimental and innovative films: David Gatten's The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility or Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts, Erin Espelie's Silent Springs and Josh Gibson's Kudzu Vine.

"Main Street" Filmed in Durham, To Be Released Sept. 9

“Main Street,” a Magnolia Pictures production that was filmed in Durham in 2009 and starring Colin Firth and Orlando Bloom, will be released Sept. 9.