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Meet the Makers is an ongoing interview series highlighting current Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program students and faculty. I recently had the chance to sit down with second-year MFA film student Nathalie Álvarez Mesén to talk about her experiences before Columbia and learn where the inspiration for her impressive body of work comes from.
The Student Spotlight series aims to highlight the work of current MFA students, asking them to share thoughts on their practice by answering curated and peer-submitted questions. Allison Janae Hamilton is a first-year student in the Visual Arts Program.
Recent graduate Clara Roquet ’16 won the 2016 BAFTA US Student Film Award for her short film El Adiós, which she wrote and directed as part of her MFA coursework at the Columbia University Film Program.
Kristin Slaney's thesis play, Un-Utero, follows Mel and Becca, best friends who live in a town where all Planned Parenthood locations have recently shut down.
Film department professor Ira Deutchman will begin adapting the classic film Hester Street into a musical.
Twenty-eight Columbia filmmakers participated at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, with several winning top honors, several won.
Two Columbia alumni have been nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Awards.
Alumna and adjunct professor Mia Alvar ’07 won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which “honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.”
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.