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Professor of Professional Practice Ramin Bahrani '96 has started production on his new film, Vegas: A Love Story. Oscar-nominee Bahrani is both a co-writer and director on the project.
Directing alum Ghina Fawaz '25 and Dramaturgy alum Begüm Inal '23 will present a workshop production of their play The Thousand and One Nights (ألف ليلة وليلة ) at La MaMa Theater in the East Village.
"Speaking Through Pain: Feminist Testimony and Diasporic Resistance in Born in Evin" by Tania Ahmadi '17 has been published in Cinema Iranica.
Visual Arts alum Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee '25 recently opened her debut New York solo exhibition, Possibly, Here [ 遠根近花 ], at Harper’s Chelsea 534.
Columbia alumni and faculty continue to showcase their work at the Berlinale Film Festival, hosted in its titular city, this year for its 76th edition.
Writing alums Karen Russell '06 and Henri Cole '82 have earned the distinction of finalists for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
MFA Film alums Moara Passoni '21 and Eda Çarikçi '23 have been selected to join the 2026 Berlinale Talents Program. The theme of this year’s program is Creating (and) Confusion - Cinema, Chaos and the Power of Discomfort.
This February, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club will present the world premiere of The First Line of Dante’s Inferno, a new play by Kirk Lynn, directed and co-produced by Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Concentration Head Christian Parker '98. Theatre alum Mary Alex Daniels '24 co-produces alongside Parker, and Theatre students Sam Grocock and Emily Griffiths will stage manage.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival—the last to be held in Park City, Utah before the festival moves to Boulder, Colorado next year—saw some massive wins for Columbia filmmakers, who took home some of the festival's top prizes.
MA Film and Media Studies alum Marc Francis '11 will publish his new film history Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Canon with Duke University Press in February 2026.
Acclaimed Fiction alum Emma Cline '13 will publish her third novel, Switzy, with Random House in September 2026.
Screenwriting alum Constanza Majluf '21 will start production on her first feature film titled Pink Desert, or, Desierto Rosa, later this year.
On February 26, The Public Theater will premiere Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), directed by Theatre alum Tyne Rafaeli '14.
Alums Kamrooz Aram '03 and Michelle Lopez (BC '92) are among the 56 artists, duos, and collectives examining relationality in the eighty-second Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.
School of the Arts student Alejandro Valencia likes the intensity of New York—as well as occasionally leaving it.