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The Kilroys are a collective of playwrights, directors and producers in LA and NYC who are, they say, “done talking about gender parity and are taking action.”

Soy Sola, a short film written and directed by current student Natalia Luque and co-produced by current students Aliza Brugger and Cecilia Otero, will have its European premiere at the Brussels Short Film Festival in September

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'.

Recent alumnus Francisco González ’19 won the prestigious 2020 Gulf Coast Prize for his short story “Clean Teen.”

It Cuts Deep, a feature horror-comedy written and directed by alumnus Nicholas Payne Santos '19, produced by Kristy Richman '19, and assistant directed by Rtusha Kulkarni '19, was picked up for North American distribution by Dark Sky Films and is being repped by their parent company MPI at the virtual Cannes Market.

Alumnus Kareem Fahmy '07 has been announced as a participant of The Theatre Communication Group’s new cohort for its Rising Leaders of Color program.

Karaoke King, a feature project written and directed by alumna Federica Gianni '17, is a finalist for SFFILM's Spring 2020 Rainin Grant.

Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K stands for Oaxaca, Mexico City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hong Kong: these are all the places where alumnus ektor garcia ’16 has exhibited his artwork.

Eight Columbia filmmakers were recently invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of an initiative to change its otherwise long-term white-male dominance.

We are shocked, angered, and deeply outraged by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) July 6th directive that starting in the Fall 2020 semester, international students on an F-1 visa will no longer be allowed to remain in or enter the United States if their coursework is completely online. The directive further states that only international students with a hybrid curriculum that includes the minimum number of online credits needed to show normal progress in their degree program may remain in the United States for their studies.

The School for Good and Evil, the first book of a fairytale fantasy novel series written by film alumnus Soman Chainani '08, will be adapted into a feature film by Netflix.

Many Columbia faculty and alumni were successful at the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards.

Slingshot by recent alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 was a finalist for the prestigious Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Award.

Want, a novel by Adjunct Assistant Professor Lynn Steger Strong ’14, headlined a Vulture review as “the summer book I couldn’t put down.”

The South Bend Museum of Art’s first online exhibit, Making a Way, is the museum’s response to the nationwide coronavirus lockdowns which began in mid-March.