Columbia Filmmakers Make Waves in 2024 Gotham Week Project Market

Several projects by School of the Arts filmmakers, including faculty, alumni, and students are on the slate for this year's Gotham Week Project Market. 

The Gotham’s Project Market is a meetings-driven forum connecting new fiction and documentary projects in development with key industry executives interested in identifying projects for development, financing, or distribution. It is the longest-running event of its kind in the United States.

The event will showcase narrative and documentary features, as well as additional projects through the Global Producers Hub. Additionally, previously announced Series Creators to Watch and Branded Storytellers to Watch will be highlighted, with assorted filmmaker conversations and screenings to be presented. 

See below for a list of projects by School of the Arts filmmakers heading to the project market:

Yosi

Produced by Justin Goncalves ’22
Spotlight on Documentaries Section

Yosimar Reyes is a queer undocumented poet and a full-time caregiver, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his 89-year-old abuelita decides to self-deport. Director Jimmy Goldblum and Executive Producer Darren Aronofsky make this an exciting project to watch out for. 

Hyper/Space

Written and Directed by Moon Molson ’08
Produced by former Adjunct Assistant Professor Mary Jane Skalski
US Features in Development Section

A Black twenty-something, suffering from a bundle of unnamed psychological disorders, launches into a low-key manic quest to solve the mystery of his mother’s suicide.

Babies of Luna Park

Produced by Lauren Elizabeth Harris
Series Creators To Watch

Deep in the wild, extravagant and violent world of Coney Island's Luna Park in the 1920s, a band of unlikely outsiders struggle to do the impossible: keep premature infants alive.  

South Bay

Written by Film student Aisha Amin
Series Creators to Watch 

In a rural Texas town, two teenagers tragically commit suicide after being hypnotized by their high school principal. Caro, an ambitious classmate, takes it upon herself to investigate the disturbing events. As she delves deeper, she gets pulled into a web of coercion, groupthink and self-doubt that begins to threaten her morality.

Pigeon Wars

Co-written by Bane Fakih ’19
Global Producers Hub

Rana, a college student struggling with a difficult secret from her past, becomes obsessed with conquering Beirut’s male-dominated pigeon wars, where rival trainers compete to capture each other’s prized birds. With the help of Hassan, an unlikely ally, she embarks on a mission to capture the rarest pigeon of all—the Nicobar—from the reigning Pigeon King.

Purple Cotton

Written by Jasmin Tenucci ’20 and Saim Sadiq ’19
Produced by Apoorva Charan ’18
Global Producers Hub

On a runaway trip to the Amazon, the aimless and pregnant Leo falls madly in love with Nadia, an aspiring musician. Their reckless romance leads to a miscarriage—a shared tragedy that forever binds them as they come together and separate over chapters of their lives, each time reconciling with their ideas of womanhood, motherhood, and nature. 

The Sleepening 

Written, Directed, and Co-produced by Adjunct Assistant Professor Rania Attieh
Global Producers Hub

After an alleged group sexual assault, a young socialite model begins to lose her grip on reality as the world around her grows increasingly more hostile toward her. Her body is changing, and she begins experiencing unexplainable hallucinations, fatigue, and even blackouts that lead her to believe she may have committed murder—but is any of it even real?

These projects are making waves and we’re here for the ride! Check out the full Gotham Project Market Slate slate here.