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Here, we talk with Film and Media Studies Professor of Professional Practice Richard Peña about finding black holes in film history, why you should watch a movie at least three times, and why film, unlike painting or poetry, transcends borders more easily.
Kate Saccone ’13, an alumna of the Film and Media Studies Program, was invited to curate a program of films titled New Beginnings as part of the Netherland Silent Film Festival—the biggest film festival in the Netherlands in the field of Silent Film.
Adjunct Professor Ivone Marguiles has written an essay for the Criterion Collection release of two of the most acclaimed films by Marguerite Duras, India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter.
Two projects from Columbia filmmakers took home prizes at the 2022 Gotham Awards.
Recent alumna Maria Teresa Fidalgo '21 was selected for the Berlin-based Takt residency, which will run from January to March 2023.
Two Columbia Film alumni have been selected to participate in the 51st iteration of the New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) festival from Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art. They are: Ricky D’Ambrose ’12 and Jasmin Freitas Tenucci ’20.
Associate Professor Racquel Gates is the guest curator of Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters, a current ongoing exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Cha Cha Real Smooth, a feature film produced by alumnus Erik Feig '92 (CC), won the Audience Award in the U.S. Drama Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Racquel Gates about taking pop culture seriously, her academic work on Hollywood and the invention of Blackness.
The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, co-edited by Senior Lecturer Ron Gregg and featuring Professor Tom Kalin, was published by Oxford Handbooks on November 26, 2021.
Film and Media Studies alumna and current PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures Xinyi Zhao '17 received the Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to conduct field work for her PhD dissertation, titled Cinema as a Quest for Modernity: Film Culture, Spectatorship, and Colonial (After)lives of Manchukuo.
Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television by alumna Annie Berke '09 will be published in January 2022.