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Asia in Action Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Khashem Gyal’s Daughter of the Light depicts a family fracturing under pressures of a rapidly changing world. Read more from Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Film and Media Studies, Rob King, has been announced as the recipient of the 2026 Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching awarded by Columbia College.
Film and Media Studies alum Majorca Bateman-Coe '24 has published an article in Architecture_MPS, the official journal of the international research organization, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS).
Karlee Rodrigues '20 played a key role in the film’s success through her work in acquisitions and distribution at Kino Lorber. Read more from the School of General Studies.
Film and Media Studies alum Wentao Ma '18 has published an article, "'Trans-' as A Method: Queer Kinship and Mobility in Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2012) and Havana Divas (2018)," in the January 2026 Journal of Chinese Film Studies.
The Agharta City, a project co-created by Film and Media Studies Student Yinx Zhou, is one of six projects that have been selected to move on to the development phase of Biennale College - Blend, a new initiative by the Biennale di Venezia programme.
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, a documentary co-produced by Professor Annette Insdorf, is now streaming nationwide on PBS as part of its acclaimed American Masters series.
The Criterion Collection edition of House Party (1990) was released last week, and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Racquel Gates served as a consulting producer on the project.
"Speaking Through Pain: Feminist Testimony and Diasporic Resistance in Born in Evin" by Tania Ahmadi '17 has been published in Cinema Iranica.
MA Film and Media Studies alum Marc Francis '11 will publish his new film history Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Canon with Duke University Press in February 2026.
Film and Media Studies MA alum Payton McCarty-Simas '24 has published their second book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film with Luna Press Publishing.