After establishing safe production protocols including quarantining, mask-wearing on set and social distancing, the feature film Banishment, co-written and directed by Daniel Byers and produced by Werner Traut, shot in Upstate New York. 

The oldest film festival in the world, the Venice International Film Festival, returns for its 77th edition from September 2 to September 12, 2020 with three Columbia films in its lineup.

Benkov is one of 14 filmmakers to be selected to the prestigious program.

The Maryland Film Festival was June 12 through June 21.

Soy Sola has been selected as one of 62 films out of more than 4,000 submissions to compete in the International Competition.

Seven Columbia films were selected out of over 6,000 submissions to be part of the Official Selection of the festival and were screened online through June 22nd.

Four films by Columbia filmmakers are listed among the 56 movies chosen for the Official Selection picked out of a total of 2,067 feature films submitted.

The COVID-19 relief fundraiser, called Rise Together, Sweat Together, launched on May 17th.

The contest marked the first edition of a new initiative by the Austrian Ministry of Digitalization and Economic Affairs to kick-start high-end narrative series production in the country and identify, promote and develop series featuring strong female protagonists.