- Kimberly Bautista (class of 2009) awarded funding from CalHumanities for her film, Justice for my Sister. More information is at: https://calhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CDP-NextGen-Press-Release-6_16_20-FINAL.pdf
- Andrés Camacho (class of 2020) has accepted a job in Juneau, Alaska as a video producer for public television station KTOO.
- Melanie Dang Ho (class of 2020) is on the short list for the very prestigious International Documentary Association Awards in the shorts category for her MFA thesis film sống ở đây. https://www.documentary.org/press-release/ida-announces-36th-annual-ida-documentary-awards-shortlists-feature-and-short
- Rian Dundon (class of 2012) has received the Magnum Foundation Grant, resulting in an article in The Nation magazine: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/portland-protests-police-cameras/
- Alexander Johnston (class of 2010) has a chapter in an upcoming book about the filmmaker William Greaves. This chapter is about Greaves' documentary, The Fight. It chronicles the making of the film, and explores the parallels between the filmmaker and one of his subjects, Muhammad Ali: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599
- Daryl Jones (class of 2019) has published a new article on ethics in documentary fillmmaking with New Day FIlms: https://www.newday.com/blog/2020-06-18-know-your-ethical-guidelines-documentary-filmmaking
- "People Like Me," the SocDoc thesis film directed and co-edited by Marrok Sedgwick (class of 2019), was awarded Best Short by the American Anthropology Association's film festival.