Film / Animation / Video

With the option to focus on live action, animation or open media, the FAV bachelor’s encourages you to make work in a range of genres, master technical skills and deepen your knowledge of the moving image as a powerful art form.

Television and film producer Ryan Cunningham has collaborated with acclaimed comedians like Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan and John Mulaney on numerous high-profile projects. The co-owner of NYC studio Running Man consults on scripts, works on set during shooting and oversees “pretty much everything that happens from the moment the camera stops rolling to the point when a show airs.” While still at RISD, she started her career as an intern for WGBH public broadcasting, where she went on to win an Emmy for producing the children’s series The Electric Company.

Within five years of graduation, video artist Ryan Trecartin had landed a trio of major awards, racking up more than $200,000 in art prizes leading the art critic for The New Yorker to proclaim him "the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s” and New York Times critic Roberta Smith to predict that he’s “bound for greatness.” A regular collaborator with RISD Sculpture alum Lizzie Fitch, Trecartin has shown work in solo exhibitions all over the world, from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and MoMA PS1 in NYC, to Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria among many others.

Known for his audacious, often offbeat movies, director Gus Van Sant has built his success on a magical combination of ingenious writing, perceptive casting and a healthy obsession with detail. From My Own Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy to the Oscar-nominated Good Will Hunting and Milk, he has shown great range while maintaining an independent voice.