- John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Scholarship
- John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Internship Scholarship
- John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment
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- Kemp Powers, Fall 2024, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
- Miranda Banks, Fall 2023, Scholar and Author
- Nancy Savoca, Fall 2022, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
- Janet Leahy, Fall 2021, Screenwriter
- John H. Mitchell Critical Conversations
- John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Community Outreach Fund
- News and Press
Along with her numerous festival screenings and honors, Nancy Savoca’s films True Love and Household Saints are listed in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, and True Love was named one of the “50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time” by Entertainment Weekly. HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and Women in Film’s Lucy award. Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (Unrestrained Reflections on September 11th) was awarded the Seal for Peace & Liberty by the City of Florence, Italy, and Dirt, a bilingual dramedy about classand immigration won Best Director at LA’s Latino Film Festival and a Writer’s Guild nomination.
In 2019, Savoca’s archives were acquired by University of Michigan’s Film Mavericks Collection which holds the works of Orson Welles, Robert Altman, and her mentors John Sayles and Jonathan Demme.
In Fall of 2022, Nancy Savoca taught FTVM 304: Before You Say "Action": Preparing to Shoot.
On Monday, November 14, 2022, Filmmaker Nancy Savoca met with the 2022-23 cohort of Mitchell Scholars. During their session in the FTVM conference room, Savoca talked about her work in the Indie Film Industry, fielding a wide array of questions and sharing invaluable advice. Savoca later commented that she was "thrilled to meet our future storytellers."
