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The National Endowment for the Arts recently granted $15,000 to Transit Books, a publishing press of work in fiction, nonfiction, and translation started by alumni Ashley Nelson Levy ’12 and Adam Z. Levy ’12.
Thin Places: Essays From In Between, a collection by writing alumna Jordan Kisner '16, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this month. The collection came out on March 3, 2020.
Film and Media Studia BA alumnus Henry-Alex Rubin ’95 won Best-of-Show at Screen Short Film Fest last week for his short Back-to-School Essentials.
Jaqueline Cedar ’09 was the curator of the exhibit Go For Broke at the Good Naked Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Featured in the gallery were works by two fellow alumni, Grayson Cox ’10 and Jared Thorne ’10.
Water Activism: Detroit, Flint, and the Great Lakes took place on February 27th, 2020 at the Lenfest Center for the arts.
Warner Bros. Animation brings back the classic 1984 movie Gremlins in a new animated show co-executive produced and written by undergraduate alumnus Tze Chun ’02.
Boys Don’t Cry celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Katherine Otto-Bernstein Screening room on February 14th, 2020.
Uncle Peckerhead, a feature horror-comedy produced by alumni Nicholas Payne Santos '19 and Kristy Richman '19 and assistant directed by alumna Andrea Goocher '19, celebrated its world premiere at Panic Fest in Kansas City earlier this year where it was named among the Best of Fest.
Alumnus Toby Fell-Holden '13 was selected as one of Film London's 2020 Lodestars.
Anna Rebek takes on the task of creating an original Horror work with her Director’s Thesis GASP!
Written by The Presnyakov Brothers
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
Produced by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
Columbia University undergraduate film alumna Mason Speta ‘17 works on acquisitions at the film distribution company Neon and was thus part of the team that brought Parasite to the United States.
This past month, work by alumna Josephine Halvorson ’07 has been on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery in New York.
Just across the Columbia University gates, the 10th edition of the Athena Film Festival took place on Barnard College’s campus from February 27 - March 1 with five Columbia filmmakers showing their work.
Beyond Black and White: Writing about the Multiracial Experience, organized by Our Word and Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), took place on February 25th, 2020 at the Lenfest Centre for the Arts.