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This year’s Sundance Film Festival came to a close on Sunday in Park City, Utah, where Columbia filmmakers saw their projects awarded top honors.

The Sundance Institute has announced its 2025 Screenwriters Lab fellows, with Film alums Chloe Sarbib ’20 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Katla Sólnes ’24 both earning spots in the competitive program.

Directing alum Kim Weild '07 serves as Co-Artistic Lead and Director of The Apothetae Residency at The Public Theater in New York, where she is developing innovative approaches to inclusive theatre-making.

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Writing Anelise Chen is releasing her new book Clam Down on June 3, 2025 from One World, an imprint of Random House that specializes in the avant garde.

We are delighted to announce that Wendy Mazo has joined our staff as the Associate Dean for Development.

In her latest novel, Don’t Be a Stranger, Susan Minot ’83 explores the fallout from an unlikely affair and its profound impact on her heroine.

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Film alum J. Hoberman '81 explores the rich cultural landscape of 1960s New York City in his upcoming book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde. Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, and Radical Pop.

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Emily Skillings ’17 has a new book of poems, Tantrums in Air, out June 17, 2025 from publisher The Song Cave.

Alum duo Alchemyverse (Visual Arts alum Bicheng Liang ’21 and Sound Arts alum Yixuan Shao ’21) recently opened their third solo exhibition, Networks of Kisses, at Nunu Fine Art New York.

Film and Media Studies Professor Rob King is set to release his highly anticipated book, Man Of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger, on March 25, 2025. 

Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Ruth Franklin's latest book, The Many Lives of Anne Frank, investigates both the historical reality and cultural impact of Anne Frank's diary.

Playwriting student D.A. Mindell is making his Off-Broadway debut with the play On the Evolutionary Function of Shame.

Abercrombie and Fitch built a retail juggernaut by bringing city clubs to suburban retail: heavily perfumed and dimly lit, their storefronts were often flanked by shirtless men. 

Acting alum Hannah Shealy ’23 joins the third season of HBO’s The Gilded Age as Charlotte Astor, a married heiress returned from an eventful trip abroad.

Alum Dolapo Demuren ’17 discusses his journey as an artist and creator.