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Film and Media Studies MA alum Payton McCarty-Simas '24 has published their second book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film with Luna Press Publishing.
Four films by Columbia alums have been selected as their countries' official submissions to the 98th Academy Award for Best International Film.
Vienna Art Week commissioned multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Theatre María José Contreras Lorenzini to provide a participatory, site-specific performance for the annual celebration, which takes over the city of Vienna from November 7 to 14, 2025.
Boots, a new series co-run by Film alum Andy Parker '11 and based on Greg Cope Wire’s memoir The Pink Marine, has just come out on Netflix and has held a spot in the top 10 most watched television shows since its premiere on October 9, 2025.
The Monkey King, a new opera composed by Huang Ro with a libretto by Professor David Henry Hwang, will have its world premiere at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco this month.
Writing alum Naima Coster '15 has just announced the forthcoming release of her third novel, Take What You Can, with Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Viking (Penguin).
Professor and head of Film and Media Studies Rob King has contributed a chapter titled “Cyborg Laughter” to the The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy.
Two films by Columbia filmmakers took home major awards at the 2025 New Hampshire Film Festival.
Writing alum Jean Kyoung Frazier '18 has joined the writing room for HBO’s newest show, I Love LA.
Columbia theatremakers work on Lincoln Center Theater's latest production, the political thriller Kyoto.
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto recently helped co-edit and co-publish a special edition of the Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas journal: Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas.
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Grow, a new feature film produced by Joe Capotorto '18 and co-produced by Fernando Morrett Garza '25, was released in theaters across the United States on October 3, 2025.
Writing alum Hannah Kauders '20 will publish a new translation of Fátima Vélez’s novel, Galapagos this December with Astra House, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Writing alum Aaron H. Aceves '20 was awarded the 2025 Judith A. Markowitz Award for an Exceptional New LGBTQ Writer from Lambda Literary, a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBTQ+ stories for over thirty-five years.