Geoff Pingree

  • Professor of Cinema and Media and English
  • Director of Cinema and Media
  • Co-Director, Apollo Outreach Initiative
  • Co-Director, Apollo Center of Media Education and Production
  • Faculty Advisor for the Journalism Integrative Concentration

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, University of Chicago
  • MA, University of Chicago

Biography

Geoff Pingree is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, and photographer. He directs StoryLens Pictures, a nonprofit organization that makes independent documentary films about pressing social issues in order to promote education, encourage public dialogue, and enable change. For a full biography, see https://storylens.org/team.

Fall 2024

Cinematic Storytelling Workshop — CIME 295
Cinematic Storytelling Workshop — CRWR 295
Video Production Workshop II: Documentary Production — CIME 320
Advanced Filmmaking Projects — CIME 475

Spring 2025

First Person Cinema: Personal Narrative — CIME 326

Notes

Rian Brown-Orso and Geoff Pingree's Film Reviewed in Journal

January 11, 2020

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Rian Brown-Orso and Professor of Cinema Studies and English Geoff Pingree's documentary film, The Foreigner's Home was reviewed by Shahram Khosravi, professor of anthropology at Stockholm University, in the journal Anthropology News.

News

Alumni Collaborate on Feature Documentary Film 'Fireboys'

August 6, 2021

Cinema Studies alumni Drew Dickler and Jake Hochendoner are codirectors of a documentary that tells the story of incarcerated men who are fighting the deadliest and largest fires in California's recent history. The film was released on VOD on August 3.