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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

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 .

Spring 2026

First-Person Filmmaking — CIME 298

Advanced Filmmaking Projects — CIME 475

Notes

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

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 .

News

Alumni Collaborate on Feature Documentary Film 'Fireboys'

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.