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Here, we talk with Film and Media Studies Professor of Professional Practice Richard Peña about finding black holes in film history, why you should watch a movie at least three times, and why film, unlike painting or poetry, transcends borders more easily.
Mourning Rituals (21:47, digital video, 2022), a media arts installation by Visual Arts Alumni A young Yu ’19 is on view at the Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University until May 7, 2023.
Second-year Nonfiction student Wally Suphap has been awarded this year’s Open City Fellowship from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Directing alumna Rachel Chavkin ’08 is set to direct the upcoming Broadway production of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, with Directing student Tiffani Swalley as Assistant Director.
In this series, we catch up with Columbia filmmakers who have recently graduated to chat about their time in the Film Program, what they’re doing now, and their goals for the future. This week, we spoke with alumna Kristin Kohlmeyer ’21.
The 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on Sunday, February 26th, and Actress Jean Smart, one of the leading ladies of Hacks, took home the prize for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.
Acting alumna Anya Banerjee ’20 stars in the tenth and final season of The Blacklist, which premiered on Sunday, February 26, 2023.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Yasi Alipour ’18 and Visual Arts alumnus Cy Morgan ’16 have been awarded biennial grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, which offers $20,000 to artists selected for their talent and individual artistic strength.
When Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Nonfiction, first encountered Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! in the Met’s European Sculpture Court, she wondered why—even post-abolition—the woman is still depicted as enslaved.
The Emperor of Ocean Park, a brand new scripted series written by Film alumnus Sherman Payne ’10 and co-produced by John Wells Productions and Warner Brothers has been greenlit and has now officially gone into development.
Several Columbia filmmakers reunited to work on The Wandering Earth II (dir. Frant Gwo, 2023), the highly anticipated prequel and follow up to the 2019 sci-fi epic, The Wandering Earth (dir. Frant Gwo, 2019), the fifth highest-grossing non-English film of all time.
Until March 15, 2023, two hand-pulled photogravure prints from the series A, B, C, D, E by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Craig Zammiello are on display at the Penumbra Foundation’s group exhibition, Photography in Ink.
From March 31 to September 10, 2023, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will turn its space over to Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze for her solo exhibition, Sarah Sze: Timelapse.
Alumna Sasha Wolff ’17 is a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award for her manuscript, The Boy Bandit.
Film alumna Aisha Porter-Christie '13 has signed with Creative Artist Agency (CCA) for representation.