The Department of Film & Media is pleased to congratulate Russell Merritt on his 2018 David Shepard Career Achievement Award from the Denver Silent Film Festival!
The Denver Silent Film Festival's David Shepard Career Achievement Award will go to Russell Merritt, who teaches film studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Russell Merritt has co-written (with J.B. Kaufman) two books on Walt Disney's early films -- the award winning Walt in Wonderland (1993) and Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies (2016). He has also authored articles on D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, animation, Sherlock Holmes, color aesthetics and early film. Merritt produces and directs the Great Nickelodeon Show, a recreation of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon program which has played at the Telluride Film Festival, The TCM Classic Film Festival, Il Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Los Angelas Film Festival, The Pacific Film Festival and assorted university campuses.