School of Visual Arts Announces MFA Program in Social Documentary Film

By Jessica Wall
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/education/article/school_of_visual_arts_announces_mfa_program_in_social_documentary_film_2008/
Is there value in creating art that is socially aware? The educators at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) certainly think so as they’ve recently announced a new MFA program in Social Documentary Film to begin in Fall 2009. “It’s our goal that graduates leave this program with films which engage larger issues, and perhaps even impact public policy,” says accomplished moviemaker and chair of the program, Maro Chermayeff.