Filmmaking

Terry Tempest Williams, HDS’s writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community as well as the general public, and includes the chance for audience members to engage in...

Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...

On February 7, HDS kicked off its second annual film festival with a screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018). The film’s executive producer, Geralyn Dreyfous, appeared via Skype following the screening for a...

Francisca Cho proposes that Buddhist epistemic frameworks regarding the nature of ritual apparitions offer an account of the religious possibilities of film that is absent in Western phenomenological conversations on the same topic.

Filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky, HDS professor Kevin Madigan, Amber Moulton of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and Sana Mustafa, an activist and Syrian refugee discuss Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War and place the Sharps’ efforts in a larger...

The Unruly Mystic, by Michael Conti, is an inspirational documentary of how the filmmaker reaffirmed his life's work when he fell in love with a 12th century saint. During a panel discussion following the screening, George P. Ferzoco, Beverly Mayne...

In a way, Arleigh Prelow's journey to HDS began with a car crash. One Sunday morning in 1992, Prelow, MDiv '13, and her two daughters were in a head-on collision with another vehicle on their way to church. The children were injured, but not critically...