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“Our Country Friends” follows eight characters who gather in a house and fall in and out of love and friendship.
Four films by Columbia filmmakers are set to screen at the 12th edition of the DOC NYC film festival between November 10 and November 18, 2021.
Theatre Directing alumnus Adam Marple '10 is directing Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at The American University in Cairo, Egypt where he is Assistant Professor of Directing.
Adjunct Professor Rich Perello currently produces the feature film Quasi, a new comedy which offers a satirical look at the story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Two Columbia alumni have been recognized by the Sundance Institute. They are: Lauren López de Victoria ’19, named as an inaugural Sundance Producers Intensive Fellow, and Cyril Aris ’17, whose project Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano was selected to receive a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grant.
Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 was among the winners of the 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Awards.
Leylak has been named Best Drama at the 2021 New York Shorts International Film Festival. This win comes amidst the film’s sparkling screenings on the film festival circuit, where it was recently named the winner of the 2021 Special Jury Mention Award in the shorts category of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Two films by Columbia filmmakers were recognized at the 2021 CinEast film festival. They are: Miracle, written and directed by Assistant Professor Bogdan Apetri, and Murina, directed by alumna Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović ’17 and co-written by Kusijanović and fellow alumnus Frank Graziano '18.
For her thesis production, student Rebecca Miller Kratzer directs the thrilling new opera The Trojan Women.
Paradise Highway, a new thriller written and directed by alumna Anna Gutto '16, was recently acquired by Lionsgate for North American distribution and international sales.
Acting alumna Anya Banerjee ’20 and Playwriting alumnus Steven Gaultney ’11 both participated in The Will of the City, a public art piece going up alongside Theatre for a New Audience's upcoming season from September 27 through November 21.
When it comes to Dante, acclaimed poet and translator Mary Jo Bang ’98 is all about being as vernacular as possible.
Berkley Imprint under Penguin Random House will publish The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher ‘04 on January 11, 2022. The book is now available for pre-order.
A debut nonfiction essay collection, The Way You Make Me Feel: Interracial Love in Black and Brown, by Nina Sharma ’16 was recently bought by Juli Kyan at Penguin Press.
The work of Brooklyn-based artist Joeun Kim Aatchim ’17 is available for viewing until November 10, 2021 at Harper’s East Hampton site.