Student and Alumni Showcase
Student and Alumni Showcase
Below you will find a small selection of Documentary Media alumni award winning work.
Alia Youssef
MFA 2020
Uses photography to diversify generalized perceptions of Muslim women with her series, The Sisters Project. Featured in Elle, external link, opens in new window.

Dominic Akena
MFA 2019
Finding the power in your story. Featured story in Ryerson Today., opens in new window

Pearson Ripley
MFA 2019
Featured in Ryerson Today: a Human with a Camera, opens in new window, and 2018 recipient of Nikon’s 100th Anniversary Storyteller’s Scholarship., external link, opens in new window

Zanele Muholi
MFA 2010
Paying Homage to the History of Black Women, The New York Times, external link, opens in new window
Daniel Froidevaux & Elisa Gonzalez
MFA 2011
The Quiet Zone, premiered at Hot Docs 2017., external link, opens in new window
Ali Weinstein & Caitlin Durlak
MFA 2014
Mermaids, directed by Weinstein & produced by Durlak, premiered at Hot Docs 2017., external link, opens in new window
Dominic Akena
MFA 2019
From child soldier in Uganda to documentary filmmaker: Dominic Akena shares story of survival. Global News Feature., external link, opens in new window

Susan Enberg
MFA 2017
“In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne’s Residential School” awarded Best Documentary Short at Toronto film festival 2018., external link, opens in new window

Rebekah Reiko
MFA 2011
Mandala Beats, world premiere, closes the 2017 Toronto Jewish Film Festival., external link, opens in new window
Lisa Rideout
MFA 2013
Take a Walk on the Wildside, premiered at Hot Docs 2017., external link, opens in new window

Eduardo Lima
MFA 2011
Lima is the recipient of the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award, 2016., external link, opens in new window
He is a Toronto-based freelance photojournalist who is a regular contributor to Corbis Images and Metroland Media and who has been published in the Toronto Star and Le Monde. Website., external link, opens in new window

Marc Serpa Francoeur & Robinder Uppal
MFA 2013
The World in Ten Blocks, a documentary installation about Toronto's Bloorcourt neighborhood featured throughout the Hot Docs 2016 festival as part of the DocX program, external link, opens in new window.

Michèle Pearson Clarke
MFA 2015
Doc Media alumna and professor named 2019 Toronto Photo Laureate, opens in new window.

Zanele Muholi
MFA 2010
Showcased in feature about their work and its focus on marginalized queer communities in South Africa, by WPRESENT, external link, opens in new window.
Jason O'Hara
MFA 2013
State of Exception, premiered at Hot Docs 2017., external link, opens in new window
Lindsay Fitzgerald
MFA 2017
About Employment, featuring Yin Brown, won 1st Place in the 2016 TVO Short Docs competition., external link, opens in new window

Vivian Belik
MFA 2015
Underdog is a documentary film co-created with Naomi Mark about Yuka Honda, a Japanese expat who prepares for a 1000 mile dogsled race to fulfill her mother's dying wish. Featured on CBC Short Docs., external link, opens in new window