Adjunct Film Faculty 2012-13
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Loren-Paul Caplin is a screenwriter, director, playwright. Feature Film: The Lucky Ones (Writer/Director), Tribeca Film Festival (2003); History of the World in 8 Minutes (Writer/Director), New Directors/New Films Festival, MOMA, NYC (1998); Lost Angels (Original Story), Orion Pictures; Battle in the Erogenous Zone, (Co-Wrote and Co-Produced) Showtime; The Forbidden Zone (Music Producer), Samuel Goldwyn; Also written film scripts for: Paramount, Columbia, TriStar and numerous independents.
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Guy Gallo was born and raised in New Orleans. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in History and Literature and an M.F.A from The Yale School of Drama in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. His first play, Failing (1977), won the Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting and was produced by the Loeb Theatre Center. A one-act, Rain in Lent (1979), was given productions by Hunter College and The Double Image Theater. A non-musical stage adaptation of J. M.
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Larry Gross’s most recent screenwriting assignment was for Rachid Bouchareb Academy-award nominated French-Algerian director (for Les Indigenes). It is an original action comedy feature, Belleville Cop. His most recent writing credit, Vernokia Decides to Die, was adapted from the best-selling novel by Paulo Coehlo, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, directed by Emily Young, and was completed in 2009.
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A director, writer, producer and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100 films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning every award in the field of documentary television, including 2 Alfred I. Dupont awards, 3 George Foster Peabody prizes, 5 Writer's Guild prizes and 10 Emmys.
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Caryn James is a film and culture critic, and a novelist. She writes the “James on screenS” film and television blog for Indiewire, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and other publications.
She was previously a film critic, chief television critic and critic at large for The New York Times. She regularly hosts on-stage conversations about television at the 92nd St. Y, and as a film commentator has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, MSNBC, Charlie Rose and other programs.
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Christina Kallas is a writer-producer for film and television, book author, professor of film and the president of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE).
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David Klass has a double career as a screenwriter and novelist. He has written more than thirty screenplays for the Hollywood studios including: Kiss the Girls, Desperate Measures, In the Time of the Butterflies and Walking Tall. His new movie, Emperor, starring Tommy Lee Jones, will be coming out this year. David has also written eighteen novels, many of them for young adults. His new novel, Second Impact, will be published in 2013 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Stephen Molton is an award-winning author, screenwriter and filmmaker who has written mini-series and movies for such studios as Showtime Networks, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures and Viacom Networks. A former HBO and Showtime executive, Molton oversaw the development and production of many television films. He created a documentary production unit between New York Times Television and Showtime and has produced two documentary feature films of his own. Harper Collins published his first novel, Brave Talk in 1987.
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David Riker is a New York-based filmmaker, born in Boston, and raised in London. His films La Ciudad (The City) and The Girl have premiered and screened at Sundance, Toronto, and Tribeca Film Festivals.
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Amy Robinson produced Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, written and directed by Nora Ephron, based on the books ‘Julie & Julia’ by Julie Powell and ‘My Life In France’ by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. It was released by Columbia Pictures. Robinson produced alongside Eric Steel, Laurence Mark and Ephron. Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe Award and the New York Film Critics Award for her portrayal of Julia Child in this film.
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John Gould Rubin recently directed an adaptation of Strindberg’s Playing With Fire at The Box for The Private Theatre, of which he is Artistic Director and Jack’s Back, a musical about Jack the Ripper off Broadway, both Ivanov and The Crucible for the Stella Adler Conservatory and the musical, The Fartiste, off Broadway.
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David Sterritt, chair of the National Society of Film Critics, is a film professor at Columbia University—where he also co-chairs the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation—and an adjunct professor of humanistic studies and art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is also Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film at Long Island University.
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Hannah Weyer is a filmmaker living in New York who has written, directed and produced narrative and documentary films. Her films have screened at MoMA, Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and others around the world and have won recognitions, including awards from LoCarno, Sundance, Doubletake Documentary and South by Southwest Film Festivals.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.