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Bye Bye Body, written and directed by current student Charlotte Benbeniste and produced by current student Barbara Twist, was selected to screen at the Atlanta Film Festival. 

Current Student Moara Passoni’s debut feature film, Ecstasy, screened online as part of the CPH:DOX Festival in late March.

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'.

Darling, directed and co-written by current student Saim Sadiq, co-written by current student Rodney Llaverias, co-produced by current student Jasmin Tenucci, and produced by alumna Mahak Jiwani ’18, continues to make waves on the festival circuit, winning the Special Jury Recognition Prize at this year’s South by SouthwestXSW festival. 

Alumna and Visual Arts Adjunct Assistant Professor Alex Strada '16 is a recipient of the 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund for her documentary short, truths.

As discussed in our meeting on April 7th, all second year MFA Visual and Sound Art students have the option to and are encouraged to complete their thesis work by participating in individual advising and group critiques via Zoom this semester and graduate in May. 

Current student Aika Akhmetova ’20 and recent graduate Bat-Ami Rivlin ’19 are both recipients of this year’s A.I.R. fellowship.

Columbia undergraduate alumna Anna Winger '93, along with Alexa Karolinski, created the acclaimed series Unorthodox, which premiered on Netflix March 26th, 2020.

As if nature were mirroring her own erratic life, the unnamed narrator of The Inland Sea by alumna Madeleine Watts ‘19 careens headlong into a spree of self-destructive behavior in her native Australia surrounded by an eerie ecological nightmare of brush fires, flooding, and suffocating heat.

The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

Current student Nicole Caplain Kelly has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

Diversity in Film is a bi-weekly series covering underrepresented groups in Film.

On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.