Columbia Filmmakers Head to Sundance and Slamdance 2019
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
Sister Aimee
Marie Schlingmann '16, Co-Writer and Co-Director
Samantha Buck '16, Co-Writer and Co-Director
Hugo Kenzo '14, First Assistant Director
Adam
Ariel Schrag CC ’03, Author of title book, Screenwriter
James Schamus, Faculty member, Producer
Mark Sean Hayes ’15, Post-Production Supervisor
Selah and the Spades
Jessica Daniels Schwartz ’07, Casting
Jon Branden '17, Post Supervisor
Festival Segment: Spotlight
The Mountain
Mark Sean Hayes ’15, Post-Production Supervisor
Alexandra Vivas ’14, Unit Production Manager
Festival Segment: Premiers
The Tomorrow Man
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
The Sound of Silence
Kristie Lutz Line ’10, Co-Producer
The Farewell
Joshua Cohen '15, Co-producer
Rob Cristiano '13, NY Unit- Production Supervisor
Before you Know It
Kristie Lutz Line ’10, Post-Production Supervisor
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Andrew Hauser '12, Faculty member, Post-Production Supervisor
Festival Segment: World Cinema Documentary
Edge of Democracy
Moara Rossetto Passoni '21, Co-writer
Festival Segment: Documentary
Halston
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
Abe
Jacob Kader '09, Co-Writer
Festival Segment: US Narrative Short
Green
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
Suicide by Sunlight
Ellie Foumbi ’17, Actor
Festival Segment: International Narrative Shorts
Fatherland
George Sikharulidize ’17, Director & Screenwriter
Screenwriters Lab
Costa Brava
Mounia Akl ’17, Co-Writer. & Director
Clara Roquet '16, Co-Writer
Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces)
Chantel Clark ’18, Writer & Director
El Otro Lado (The Other Side)
Barbara Cigarroa ’18, Writer & Director
Yurt (Dormitory)
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
Crystal Swan
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
Hierophany
Kevin Contento '18, Writer, Director, Producer, Narrative Short
Danny Pfeffer '18, Assistant Director, Narrative Short
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Slide 1: Still from Crystal Swan
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Slide 2: Still from The Tomorrow Man, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 3: Still from The Sound of Silence, courtesy of Group Theory
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Slide 4: Still from The Mountain, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 5: Still from The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 6: Still from The Farewell, courtesy of Sundance
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Slide 7: Still from Suicide by Sunlight, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 8: Still from Sister Aimee, courtesy of Austin Chronicle
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Slide 9: Still from Selah and the Spades, courtesy of Sundance
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Slide 10: Still from The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, courtesy of Sundance
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Slide 11: Still from Hierophany, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 12: Still from Halston, Courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 13: Still from Green, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 14: Still from Fatherland, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 15: Still from Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 16: Still from Costa Brava
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Slide 17: Still from Brittany Runs a Marathon, courtesy of Sundance
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Slide 18: Still from Before you Know It, Courtesy of Sundance
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Slide 19: Still from Abe, courtesy of IMDB
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Slide 20: Still from Adam
