Resources
General University Information
Columbia University Graduate Student Housing
Student Services Online (SSOL)
Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT)
Information for International Students
Academic Resources
Columbia Librarian Nancy E. Friedland’s Resource Page for Film Studies
Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscripts Library
Columbia University Center for Oral History
Columbia University Seminar on Sites of Cinema
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
NYPL Branch for the Performing Arts
Margaret Harrick Library Digital Collections
Call For Papers from UPenn (general list with CFPs for conferences and journals curated by UPenn English Dept.)
Film & History Publishing Opportunities (general list with CFPs for books and journals)
SCMS List of Academic Film/Media Journals
Off-campus Resources and Opportunities
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
CU Arts Initiative (Free/discounted museum passes, tickets, and events)
Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series
As part of the Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series, the world's foremost filmmakers and TV personalities visit the Columbia University MFA Film Program to screen their most recent work and afterwards engage in discussions with students. These discussions are moderated by one of Columbia University's established film faculty members.
A sampling of our guests from the recent past includes: David Koepp, Alexander Payne, Jean Dujardin, David Chase, Werner Herzog, Kahane Cooperman ('91SOA), P. T. Anderson, Guillermo Arriaga, Olivier Assayas, Michael Ballhaus, Noah Baumbach, Danny Boyle, Ken Burns, Steve Buscemi, George Clooney, Bill Condon, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Day-Lewis, Guillermo del Torro, Claire Denis, Tom DiCillo, Atom Egoyan, Giancarlo Esposito, Edie Falco, Peter Farrelly, Todd Field, Tom Fontana, Jodie Foster, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Michel Gondry, Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener ('88SOA), Ron Howard, Jeong-hun Jeong, Charlie Kaufman, Cedric Klapisch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh, Claude Lelouch, David Lynch, Albert Maysles, Claude Miller, Edward Norton, Kimberly Peirce ('96SOA), Gina Prince-Bythewood, Tim Robbins, Lynne Ramsay, David O. Russell, Adam Sandler, Julian Schnabel, Richard Shepard, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro and Matthew Weiner.