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The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) recently announced the cohorts of its various 2022 programs and several Columbia filmmakers have been selected to join the academy’s prestigious ranks.

All the Lies They Did Not Tell, a work of true-crime by Pablo Trincia and translated from the Italian by alumna Elettra Pauletto ’17, was recently published by Amazon Crossing.

A group of writers and filmmakers gathered at Columbia to discuss the best approaches.

For the second directing thesis production presented at Lenfest this fall, Jorge Schultz  presents Asphyxia, a poetic psychological thriller that follows a detective receiving inpatient treatment after the serial killer murdered his partner and takes the heart away.

The School of the Arts Professor has published back-to-back works of fiction this fall.

Playwriting alumni Zizi Majid ’20 and Julián Mesri ’20 have been named Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows for 2022-2023.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Tyler Coburn has published Solitary (Sternberg Press, 2022), a collection of pieces written by ten authors at a wellness center designed as a mock prison in South Korea.

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 Ida Yazdi ’22.

By Eve Glasberg
December 02, 2022

Nights of Plague was well underway when COVID struck, but the pandemic influenced the book all the same.

Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Writing Matthew Salesses about writing myths, how to properly conduct a workshop and why successful writers are never the most talented.

Two projects from Columbia filmmakers took home prizes at the 2022 Gotham Awards.

A new book by Directing alumnus Colin Campbell ’96, called Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose, is set to be released March 14, 2023 by Penguin Random House.

Dog on Fire, the nineteenth book (and seventh novel) by Terese Svoboda ’78 will be released in early 2023 from Flyover Fiction, University of Nebraska Press. 

2nd Chance is the latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Associate Professor Ramin Bahrani (CC ’96).

Established in 2010 by Whitney trustee Melva Bucksbaum, the $100,000 award recognizes one Biennial artist “whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination.”