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The Urbanworld Film Festival has released its 2023 slate of films, and three Columbia filmmakers will be screening their short films at the New York City based festival.
The 39th Warsaw International Film Festival held October 6 to 15, 2023 awarded the Grand Prix to Coral, a short film written and directed by Sonia Oleniak ’21 and produced by Eda Çarikçi ’18 and Constanza Majluf ’21. With this win, Coral now qualifies for the Academy Awards.
Loneliness & Company, a debut novel from Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Charlee Dyroff ’20 (CC ’15), is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing in May 2024.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Michael Cacioppo has participated in the launch of the Hulu/ESPN Series Algiers, America as the online editor. Assisting him in post-production was the team at Dungeon Beach run by Film alumnus Jeff Sousa ’10.
De Lo Mio, a film written and directed by Adjunct Assistant Professor Diana Peralta, has been officially added to the Criterion Channel and is now available to stream.
Decentered Playwriting, a new book from Routledge Press, will be released this December and features the work of Playwriting alumna Luz Lorenzana Twigg ’23 as well as a foreword written by Associate Professor David Henry Hwang.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Prince Fellowship alumna Rachel Sussman is a lead producer of the new musical Suffs, which is coming to Broadway’s Music Box Theater in April 2024.
Film Alumni Rob Cristiano ’13 and Valeria Contreras ’23 have been selected for the 2023 Film Independent Producers Lab. Apoorva Charan ’18 will serve as one of the program's guest speakers.
In And, Or, Not, a solo exhibition of work by Visual Arts alumna Vivian Chiu '19 at FLXST Contemporary's A-Side Gallery, wooden sculptures stand as watchful, willing figures on plexiglass supports spread throughout the gallery’s space, interacting with the sun’s light and the shadows thrown on the exposed brick walls.
How to Dance in Ohio, a new musical premiering on Broadway this year, is produced by Ben Holtzman, a recipient of the 2019-2020 Columbia University-awarded Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing.
Ten years after his last solo show at Galeri Bosfor in Istanbul, Turkey, Visual Arts alumnus Barış Göktürk ’20 has returned with Scanner / Tarayan, an exhibition featuring his painting and sculpture works.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Sable Elyse Smith presented Fair Grounds, a solo show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
An English translation by Professor Susan Bernofsky of Yoko Tawada’s German novel, Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel, will be published by New Directions in July 2024.
Two films by Columbia filmmakers brought home awards at the 2023 New Hampshire Film Festival, which wrapped on October 15th.
On September 27, 2023, as part of the School of the Arts's 2023-2024 public program and engagement series, Professor Timothy Donnelly joined McCrae for a conversation on memory, family, truth-finding, and boundary-pushing.