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Film MFA student Adewale Olukayode and Ameer Kazmi had never met before last week, when they were brought together to participate in the online event One Story Up: Filmmaker Fireside Chat. The two young New York filmmakers discussed art and life as if they had just met at a party, excited to be sharing their passion and convictions with a fellow artist.
Alumnus Noah Breuer ‘07 has a solo show, Cabbage, at Concourse Gallery, VisArts, in Rockville, Maryland. It is on view until January 2, 2022. According to the press release, the exhibition is named for the “pieces of cloth cuttings leftover in the process of creating custom garments and traditionally kept as perquisites by the dressmakers."
The Conference of the Birds, a feature film directed and edited by alumnus Kevin Contento '18, won the Feature Narrative Jury Award at the 2021 New Orleans Film Festival.
Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturg students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.
Several Columbia filmmakers are featured as part of the Criterion Channel’s current 2021 lineup.
Mengtai Zhang ‘19 and Lemon Guo ‘18 collaborated on Diagnosia, a virtual reality experience running at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam from November 17 to 28, 2021.
Alumnae So Young Shelly Yo '18 and Ellie Foumbi ’17 were both chosen to participate in Tribeca’s 2021 Writing in Unreal Program.
Professor Annette Insdorf was honored at Moment Magazine’s Night of Musical Moments Gala in celebration of her being awarded the magazine’s 2021 Creativity Award.
Theatre student Rebecca Miller Kratzer is directing Mae West’s The Drag at Fordham University. The show runs from November 10 through 20.
Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings released Words & Music, Book One by the label's founder Kramer last week.
Film student Cecilia Otero was accepted into the 2021 Film Independent Producing Lab.
The first comic in the new series Sabretooth by Associate Professor and alumnus Victor LaValle ‘98 will be released by Marvel Comics on January 5, 2022.
Works by Columbia filmmakers Maggie Gyllenhaal ’99 (CC), Professor of Professional Practice Tom Kalin, Jessica Kingdon ’09 (CC) and Julia Ducournau have been honored at this year’s Gotham Awards in New York City.
Jackson’s multivocal debut poetry collection features a chorus of Black women’s voices throughout time, including Jackson’s great-grandmother, the church ladies of her Philadelphia youth, Missy Elliott, and Black feminist scholar Hortense Spillers.
Acting alumnus Javier Padilla ’19 starred in The Huntington’s production of Witch.