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Animation Conversations is an interview series with Film faculty, students, and alumni where we discuss working as screenwriters, directors, and producers in the animation industry.

Out of the Past, Into the Future is a bi-weekly series that aims to chronicle a limitless scope of work by Columbia filmmakers representative of the past, present, and future. This series investigates how Columbia film projects, and the bespoke stories therein, are enmeshed with tales of history and experience, and harbingers of what’s to come.

Driving the Green Book, a documentary project produced by alumni Mike De Caro '12 and Saro Varjabedian '13, was selected to participate in Film Independent's Docuseries Intensive workshop.

Alumna Ashley Lyle ’07 (CC ’02) is the co-creator of Yellowjackets, a new Showtime series that will premiere on November 14, 2021.

Alumnus Erlingur Thoroddsen '13 is set to write and direct an English-language remake of his own 2017 Icelandic film Rift (original title: Rökkur) for Wayward Entertainment.

Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturg students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.

Undergraduate Writing students Esther Ollivier and Maximiliam Patel recently published Songcraft, a virtual anthology featuring musicians from around the world.

Alumna Susan Chen ’20 is featured in the solo exhibition I Am Not a Virus at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, on view until October 23, 2021.

The Walker Arts Center announced that Theatre Management and Producing alumna Seena Hodges ’13 has been elected as the president of their board of trustees.

 

Black as Night, a feature horror film written by alumnus Sherman Payne '10, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on October 1, 2021.

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Master Printer at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Nathan Catlin '12 is featured in COMFORT/(DIS)COMFORT at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking in Norfolk, CT.

Acting alumnus Blaze Mancillas ’12 is the creator and host of Let’s Get Lit Live, a night of music, comedy and short stories at Caveat in New York, NY on October 26, 2021 at 9:30 pm.

Associate Professor Racquel Gates served as the consulting producer and editor for The Criterion Collection’s new Melvin Van Peebles box set.

Karma Gallery presents Get Lifted!, a new multi-artist exhibition organized by Associate Professor Hilton Als.

Professor Trey Ellis is the author of “The Long Way Around,” a new fiction podcast that will premiere this fall.