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The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) has announced the newest roster of its Newcomers program with an impressive showing of Columbia filmmakers.
The short film Blue Grey, written and directed by Directing Student Katie Kim, with Creative Producing Alumna Flora Jiwu Hwang ’20 as Producer and lead actor, won Best Short Award at the 12th annual Seoul International Extreme Short Image and Film Festival (SESIFF).
Assistant Professor Aliza Nisenbaum, Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Gina Beavers are featured alongside Alumni Uri Aran ’07 and Mika Rottenberg ’04 in the group exhibition 100 Drawings from Now in New York, NY at The Drawing Center.
Postman, written & directed by student Minkyu Kang and produced by students Bofan Zhang and Robert Jones, will screen at the San Diego International Film Festival (SDIFF) from October 15-18. A short, shown in the "On Pins & Needles" category, Postman is about a mail carrier who finds a dying painter left alone in an unlocked apartment.
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Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.
Alvarez Keko Salazar Productions and Poseidon Theatre Company are adapting short plays by Theatre Alumnus Jeffrey James Keyes ’10 into the new podcast series Drama: an aural experience.
Unnatural Selection, a teleplay co-written by Karlee Roberts ’20 and her sister Marlee Roberts, is a finalist in the Humanitas Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship.
The MacArthur fellowships are awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits.”
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed Maggie Nelson to its Nonfiction Dialogues series last month.
Anita, written & directed by student Sushma Khadepaun and co-produced by Sasha John '17, was selected as a 2020 National Board of Review Student Grant winner.
Down Dog, a short film directed by student Shae Xu, written by alumna Claire Brooks ’20 and produced by alumna Mackenzie Lyle '20 and student I-Hui Lee, was screened virtually at the Urbanworld Film Festival through September 27, and will screen at the NewFest New York LGBTQ + Film Festival from October 16-27. NewFest is New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ film & media and the largest convener of LGBTQ audiences in the city.
Student Kevin Haefelin won the Maverick Award for Best Student Short Film at the Woodstock Film Festival 2020 for his film Trumpet. Written and directed by Haefelin, produced by Youmi Haefelin-Roch and with student Alex Yarber serving as Unit Production Manager, Trumpet took the edge over five other shorts in its section.
Theatre Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Writing Alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 and Ge Gao ’17, and Visual Arts Alumni Vivianne Chiu ’19, Alison Taylor ’05, Elif Uras ’03, and Writing Assistant Professor Shane McCrae were all named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows for 2020.
Early this morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature to former undergraduate writing student Louise Glück.