第29届美国独立精神奖 获得“比虚构更真实”奖(纪录片) (提名)。获奖影视: 《玛纳卡玛纳》
第29届美国独立精神奖 获得最佳纪录片 (提名)。获奖影视: 《玛纳卡玛纳》
第29届美国独立精神奖 获得当代电影人单元金豹奖。获奖影视: 《玛纳卡玛纳》
Stephanie Spray was an Assistant Professor in Critical ***** Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology & Cinematic arts at the University of Southern California. She is an active filmmaker and anthropologist whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and art, with research interests in social aesthetics; visual, sonic, and ***** anthropology; climate change and the anthropology of science, especially oceanic and at high altitude; and everyday religious practice. In Nepal, Dr. Spray worked with itinerant musicians, known as the Gandharva or the Gāine, with whom she made five films, culminating in her feature-length film MANAKAMANA (2013, co-directed with Pacho Velez), which won numerous awards, including two Golden Leopards at the Locarno International Film Festival and first prize at BAFICI, and was followed by a sustained theatrical release in the US, U.K., Canada, Germany, and Japan. Dr. Spray is currently working on a manuscript based on her fifteen years of research amongst the Gandharva of Nepal; editing a feature length film she shot aboard a scientific drilling ship, the JOIDES Resolution, while ten weeks at sea; and will soon commence a film in Chile.Dr. Spray earned her PhD in Social Anthropology with ***** at Harvard University, has a Masters Degree in the study of religion from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. in the Study of Religion from Smith College.