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By Jill Yesko , University Relations
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Posted:4-20-07
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Brett Ingram, a documentary filmmaker and an assistant professor in the Department of Broadcasting and Cinema, has been awarded a fellowship in filmmaking from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Results of the Guggenheim Foundation’s 83rd annual United States and Canadian competition were announced April 6. Ten fellowships in the field of film and video were awarded this year out of 189 winners chosen from nearly 2,800 applicants.
Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and promise for future accomplishment. Since 1925, the foundation has awarded over $256 million in fellowships to more than 16,250 individuals in fields from the natural sciences to arts and humanities.
"The Guggenheim Fellowship literally comes along once in a lifetime,” said Ingram. “I am extremely honored and grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation for this prestigious and generous award.”
Ingram will be on sabbatical during the 2007-08 academic year to compete his film.
Ingram will use the Fellowship to complete a feature-length documentary portrait of scientific illustrator and visionary artist North Carolina artists Renaldo Kuhler. For more than 40 years, Kuhler has created hundreds of plates for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and has illustrated flora and fauna for obscure scientific journals and reference books.
Ingram has twice won a Film/Video Artist Fellowship award from the North Carolina Arts Council. His feature documentary, “Monster Road,” has been screened at more than 85 festivals and has been shown on the Sundance Channel.
Ingram received a BS in electrical engineering from NC State and an MFA in film and video production from UNCG in 1995.
Ingram is the second member of the Department of Broadcasting and Cinema to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, Eric Patrick, an assistant professor, received the award for his animated film, “Retro-cognition.”
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