About
JUDITH DWAN HALLET is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has been making films for over 50 years. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964, Judy joined the Peace Corps in Tunisia teaching English as a Second Language. She met her future husband, Stanley Hallet, a Peace Corps Volunteer in architecture, and they collaborated on a film on the Berber Villages of Southern Tunisia. Back in the States after directing several more independent films with her now husband, including two documentaries in Afghanistan in 1971, Judy became a Producer/Reporter at KUTV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over the next 14 years, she produced over 100 news documentaries for KUTV’s documentary unit as well as their news magazine show, EXTRA. Moving to Washington DC in 1986, National Geographic Television hired her as the Senior Producer for their weekly television series, EXPLORER, where she oversaw over 60 documentaries and also produced four of her own films.
After nearly five years at EXPLORER, Judy formed her own company, JUDITH DWAN HALLET PRODUCTIONS, where she produced and directed fourteen award winning television documentaries. In 1995, Women in Film and Video awarded her their Woman of Vision Creative Excellence Award. In 2001 she received The Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Disciplineby the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In 2008 she received an Emmy from The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition for her significant contributions to the broadcast industry. In 2015, she received recognition from the Washington DC Office of Motion Picture & Television Development as the March Filmmaker of the Month in honor of Women’s History Month for her lifetime contribution to the local film industry.
Former Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC, Stanley Ira Hallet, FAIA, is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at CUA where he teaches undergraduate and graduate studios and seminars exploring the historic and contemporary relationships between culture, urban design, landscape and architecture. Given his early experiences in Tunisia as a Peace Corps Volunteer(1964-66) and in Afghanistan as a Fulbright-Hayes Lecturer at the University of Kabul(1972), his studio work and lectures often explore issues of landscape, urban fabric and sacred space. Formerly Studio Head in Rome, Italy (2005-7 then in Paris, France (2008-15), he recently oversaw the transformation of the design curriculum in architecture at the The School of Architecture at the Université Tunis Carthage(UTC) in Tunisia (2014-17). Currently he is exploring an alternative design for a prison for an era of Social Justice where the emphasis is placed on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
Recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for his contributions to both architecture and architectural education, his work has been distinguished with 12 AIA design awards. He received a 25-year design award given by the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the Quad Project. More recently, his own house, a 1998 recipient of a Washingtonian/DC AIA Chapter design award, was published in the Italian Journal Il Projetto and the American Journal Residential Architect. A finalist in the international competition for the DC Metro Canopy Competition, his proposal was reviewed in Cityscape by architectural critic, Benjamin Forgey of the Washington Post.