Columbia Filmmakers Head to Sundance and Slamdance 2019
December 17, 2018
Thirty-seven School of the Arts filmmakers, including writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, and post-supervisors, will showcase at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 24 to February 3.
In addition to the films showing this year, five filmmakers, including Barbara Cigarroa '18, Chantel Clark '18, Mounia Akl '17, Clara Roquet '16 and current student Nehir Tuna have been selected for the extremely competitive Screenwriters Lab at the Sundance Institute. Notably. Read more here.
The complete list of accepted filmmakers is below.
Sundance Film Festival
Festival Segment: Next
Marie Schlingmann '16, Co-Writer and Co-Director
Samantha Buck '16, Co-Writer and Co-Director
Hugo Kenzo '14, First Assistant Director
Ariel Schrag CC ’03, Author of title book, Screenwriter
James Schamus, Faculty member, Producer
Mark Sean Hayes ’15, Post-Production Supervisor
Jessica Daniels Schwartz ’07, Casting
Jon Branden '17, Post Supervisor
Festival Segment: Spotlight
Mark Sean Hayes ’15, Post-Production Supervisor
Alexandra Vivas ’14, Unit Production Manager
Festival Segment: Premiers
James Schamus, Faculty member, Producer
Festival Segment: US Dramatic Competition
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Rob Richert ’13, Co-Writer, Co-Producer
Dede Gardner CC ’06, Producer
Kristie Lutz Line ’10, Co-Producer
Joshua Cohen '15, Co-producer
Rob Cristiano '13, NY Unit- Production Supervisor
Kristie Lutz Line ’10, Post-Production Supervisor
Andrew Hauser '12, Faculty member, Post-Production Supervisor
Festival Segment: World Cinema Documentary
Moara Rossetto Passoni '21, Co-writer
Festival Segment: Documentary
Frédéric Tcheng ’07, Producer, Screenwriter and Director
Markus Kirschner ’08, Production Designer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley - Associate Producer
Ophelia Harutyunyan ’15, Associate Producer
Festival Segment: Kids
Jacob Kader '09, Co-Writer
Festival Segment: US Narrative Short
Suzanne Andrews Correa '17, Director, Co-Writer
Mustafa Kaymak ’17, Producer and Co-Writer
Nicholas Becerra ’18, First Assistant Director
Fabio Montanari 16, First Assistant Director
Emre Gulcan ’17, Digital Imaging Technician
Pinar Yorgancioglu '16, Editor
Ellie Foumbi ’17, Actor
Festival Segment: International Narrative Shorts
George Sikharulidize ’17, Director & Screenwriter
Screenwriters Lab
Mounia Akl ’17, Co-Writer. & Director
Clara Roquet '16, Co-Writer
Chantel Clark ’18, Writer & Director
Barbara Cigarroa ’18, Writer & Director
Nehir Tuna, Current Student, Writer & Director
Additionally, current student Claire Brooks '20 (Creative Producing) will attend the festival 2019 as a BET Blackhouse Fellow. 10 filmmakers of color from top MFA programs were chosen to attend this networking based program sponsored by BET, OWN, CAA, HBO, amongst others.
Slamdance Film Festival
Darya Zhuk '15, Director, Narrative Competition
Birgit Gernböck '17, Producer, Narrative Competition
Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture
Nicole Brending '11, Writer, Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Star, Feature Narrative
Kevin Contento '18, Writer, Director, Producer, Narrative Short
Danny Pfeffer '18, Assistant Director, Narrative Short