Reviews of professor Mani Mehrvarz

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mani is a really great professor. All he wants is for his students to share his passion for film. We went over basics and classics in Documentary/ film history. Do the few homework assignments and participate in class. Mani recognizes individual work. I felt he was at his best when the class was responsive and interested in the conversations

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A great and very talented professor. This class consisted of monthly projects that demonstrate basic skills in filming then culminate to a final project. Students who don't attend class or care to do their projects will not do well. If you do the 4-5 assignments you will do fine. In this class I learned how to film a proper documentary

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Intro to documentary is a class that any major can take. I really enjoyed the final project where we filmed our own documentary as a group project. It's disappointing to see students who clearly didn't put any effort in criticize Mani. Show up and do your assignments. This class was enjoyable :)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Try not to take any of Professor Mehrvarz' classes. Unresponsive and rude, he once openly told our class of 20+ production students that UB was not a school for film and that we lacked talent. Some members of my class also finished this course not knowing how to put a battery into their cameras.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mani is the best instructor I had in film/video. He is so passionate in teaching and very encouraging about artistic quality of students work. I learned a lot in his class about great filmmakers and I could make good works to submit to festivals. Wish all instructors would be like him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Teacher was both fair and flexible when it came to grading. Anyone who participates and attends will receive a good grade. My final group wasn't very passionate or involved in our project and even though our resulting video was lackluster, at best, he still recognized my work and graded accordingly.