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Visiting Artist Screens Film
Grainger David '96 is on campus April 10-12, 2012, thanks to the visiting artist series provided by the William G. Tennille '62 Fund . After graduating from Princeton University, Grainger, who served as senior prefect while at Woodberry Forest School, launched a career in journalism and wrote for Fortune Magazine. A recent graduate of the film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the South Carolina native's MFA thesis film won the Short Film Jury Award in the Narrative Shorts competition at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival and this month received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting.
Fourth- and fifth-form English classes are meeting with Grainger this week to view his lauded short film "The Chair," and hear about his creative process and career path.
Visiting along with Grainger is his wife Lydia Fitzpatrick David, who was a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in 2010-11 and has recently been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. The pair have many connections to Woodberry Forest School. Lydia's father, who died some years ago, was the senior prefect of the Woodberry class of 1964. Her grandfather, Bill Fitzpatrick was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and an artist in residence at Woodberry for several months in the mid-1970's. He later served two terms on the Woodberry Board of Trustees. All four of his sons went to Woodberry; and he began and endowed our Fitzpatrick Lecture Series. Grainger David's younger brother Haynes is a graduate of the Woodberry class of 2005, and his late grandfather, Charles Myers, was graduated in 1929.
The Tennille Visiting Artist Endowment was given by Grant Tennille '87 and Andy Tennille '96 to honor their father, William G. Tennille III '62.
To learn more about Grainger David, please visit his website.
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