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...before I went to Harvard. 5. FM: What was your concentration? CD: I was a joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies. 6. FM: Not your typical pre-professional route.CD: My sister was very interested in fiction film and she was already a joint English and VES major. I was more interested in documentary film, and anthropology was a way to do both because I could do a thesis project that was complementary to both fields. They let me do a documentary film based on farm work in South Africa and my written thesis for anthropology...
...honors thesis of Reginald “Reggie” A. Hudlin ’83 didn’t end up in Pusey. Instead, the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator’s 20-minute video thesis, an original version of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival award-winning “House Party,” launched Hudlin’s successful Hollywood directing career, culminating in his 2005 appointment as president of Black Entertainment Television (BET), a leading black cable network...
Looking back at his time at Harvard, Hudlin said that the VES department took a “very different approach” than most film schools. “It made you strip all the artifice out of your projects, and that’s a healthy place to start,” he said...
Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, who was at Yale with Hudlin’s brother, said he knew the VES concentrator as “Warrington’s kid brother who was doing film at Harvard...
...work in the film industry? JN: Well, I took Chem 5 with the dream of becoming a doctor. After Chem 5, I decided that other people would make much better doctors than I would. So I took refuge in the photography lab and the film lab and became a VES and social studies major. Part of my interest in being a doctor was to be able to have skills to continually travel and have a skill that could be used all over the world. [Film] allows you to drop into worlds you would never ordinarily get to experience...