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The Ballad of Lefty Brown, a feature-length western co-produced by current student Rachel Ward, is now available to stream on Netflix. The 2017 film was distributed by A24 and stars Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda and Tommy Flanagan.
Undergraduate Writing Alumna Morgan Parker ’10 recently won the National Book Critic Circle Award in poetry with her book Magical Negro, published in February 2019.
Porno, a feature film directed by Keola Racela '15, co-written and co-produced by Matt Black '15 and Laurence Vannicelli '15, and co-produced by adjunct assistant professor Sarah Seulki Oh '15, is set to open theatrically on April 10, 2020.
Alumnus Cyrèe Jarelle Johnson ’19 was nominated for a Lambda for their book of poetry Slingshot. The book, published by Nightboat Books, came out in September 2019 to rave reviews.
New York, NY March 13, 2020—Celebrating its seventh year of connecting talented alumni with the film industry, the Columbia Blue List represents the finest unproduced screenplays and television pilots written by recent graduates of the Columbia University School of the Arts graduate Film Program.
Professor and head of the painting concentration at School of the Arts, Gregory Amenoff is currently in a solo exhibit at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York. The show features recent works by the artist, and this is the gallery’s first time working with Amenoff.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Alumna Melissa Clark ’94 recently published a cookbook titled Dinner in French. This book contains classic French recipes as well as innovations and variations of classics based on Clark’s experience growing up in Brooklyn and summering in France with her family.
Playwriting alumna Elisabeth Frankel ’19 is assistant directing the musical Assassins at Classic Stage Company alongside Director John Doyle. Doyle has served as Artistic Director for Classic Stage Company since 2016, following former Artistic Director and Professor Brian Kulick.
The Truffle Hunters, co-directed and produced by alumnus Gregory Kershaw '11, received a warm reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Following its success, the documentary was then acquired by Sony Pictures Classic to receive a theatrical release with the exact release date still to be set. According to Deadline, “the documentary went for $1.5 million in a worldwide rights deal, with several distributors bidding.”
Current student Orla Tinsley, who studies writing at Columbia University, is the subject of an Irish-production documentary titled Orla Tinsley: Warrior. This documentary, which followed Tinsley as she goes through the process of a double lung transplant in New York in 2018, is a finalist for the New York Film Award 2020.
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'.
Hogar, a feature directed by David Pastor '04 and his brother Alex Pastor, has begun production, and will premiere on Netflix in 2020.
Directing Alumnus Marc Atkinson '16 associate directed Hamlet at St. Ann’s Warehouse alongside Director Yaël Farber. The production transferred to St. Ann’s and screened earlier this month, following a critically acclaimed run at The Gate Theatre in Dublin, in the fall of 2018.
Current student Roni Aviv is the curator of m.i.o.k., a show currently on view at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University. The title of this show is the question “am I ok” stripped down to the barest letters; with this urgent abbreviation of a careful question in mind, the curator notes in a statement to the university that “[t]his exhibition wrestles with the difficulties of being in the current times.”