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Here, we talk with Film Professor and alumna Anocha Suwichakornpong '06 about her career, the secrets behind a good character and the most overrated idea in cinema.
Several films from Columbia filmmakers are among the 2022 Award Winners at the New Orleans Film Festival.
We talked about movement literacy, intimacy and fight direction, and choreography with Dramaturgy alumna Cristina ‘Cha’ Ramos ’21.
Alumna Katie Silberman ’12 is the writer and producer of Don’t Worry Darling, the new film directed by Olivia Wilde that has been making waves since its premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Seven Empty Houses, written by Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Assistant Professor Megan McDowell, has been awarded this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Here, we talk to Fiction student Arya Roshanian about grandiose personalities, humor and tone, and appreciating opera in the 21st century.
Visual Arts alumnus Asif Mian ’18 has been awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Established in 1997 to honor the memory of Rema Hort Mann, an art enthusiast and a founding member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s Young Collectors Group, the Grant offers $10,000 of financial support and signals the promise of enduring artistic success.
For the first directing thesis production presented at Lenfest this fall, Elena Vannoni presents The Sea Does Not Reach Naples, a play based on Anna Maria Ortese's 1953 collection Il mare non bagna Napoli, a lively representation of everyday life in post-WWII Naples, Italy. We sat down with director, Elena Vannoni, to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.
La Personalidad de los Pelícanos, a debut work of nonfiction–written in Spanish–from alumna Teresita Goyeneche Perezbardi ’20, is available now from Tusquets Colombia.
Our Country Friends, by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, is among the titles shortlisted for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
The world premiere of Mindplay, a new play written by Playwriting alumnus Josh Koenigsberg ’09 and Vinny DePonto, opened on November 8 at Geffen Playhouse’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater in Los Angeles. The show, for which DePonto is also the creator and performer, runs until December 18, 2022.
Professor Bogdan George Apetri juggles teaching and making movies, and offers advice to budding auteurs.
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 Danielle Therese Dougé ’22.
Black Adam, the newest iteration in the DC Extended Universe co-written by two Columbia Film alumni, Rory Haines ('11) and Sohrab Noshirvani ('12)—opened in cinemas on the weekend of October 21, earning an estimated $67 million dollars at the domestic box office and $140 million worldwide.
Visual Arts alum Sophie Kovel ’22 has been accepted into the prestigious Whitney Independent Study Program for the 2022–2023 term.