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Paul J. Stekler (born January 3, 1953) is a political documentary filmmaker, a professor, and former chair and head of the production program in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication.
Paul Stekler is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and professor. He has earned two Peabody, three Columbia/duPont, three national Emmy awards, and a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. He previously was the chair of Radio-Television-Film at University of Texas at Austin.
Information on Paul Stekler as both a filmmaker and educator.
Paul Stekler is a nationally recognized documentary filmmaker whose critically praised and award-winning work includes George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire; Last Man Standing: Politics, Texas Style; Vote for Me: Politics in America, a four-hour PBS special about grassroots electoral politics; two segments of the Eyes on the Prize II series ...
- An Accidental Career
- Boston to Austin
- Lessons Learned
I grew up in a very traditional Jewish suburban family in northern New Jersey. Drove into Brooklyn most Sundays to see our relatives, working-class immigrants who all seemed to live on the same street a block from the elevated subway line that rattled my grandparents' tiny apartment with each passing train. I went to WASPy Williams College in rural...
So what about the story of what I've learned here at UT? I really had no idea what awaited me when I moved to Austin in 1997. The RTF film program needed some big changes, but it also had some great advantages. It was affordable, with tuition a fraction of those big-name film schools like USC and NYU. UT was in Texas, far away from the semi-straitj...
And what did I learn? That all of this happened because of the efforts of people who loved this program at UT. Who worked together for a greater good. Put together people like that to work with and you can accomplish more than you might have ever dreamed. Today's RTF program, our students, staff, and teachers, are the product of these last two deca...
About Paul Stekler. Paul Stekler’s documentaries about American politics have won numerous national honors including multiple Emmys, Peabodys and du-Pont-Columbia Journalism awards, and have all been aired nationally on PBS. His films include Sundance Special Jury Prize winner “George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire”; “Vote for Me ...
May 5, 2022 · Professor Paul Stekler is graduating (aka "retiring") from UT at the end of this academic year. photo by Deborah Eve Lewis. Named the Wofford Denius Chair in Entertainment Studies, Paul has been significantly shaping the UT Radio-Television-Film program for over 25 years.
