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The Venice International Film Festival has awarded alumna Maggie Gyllenhaal (CC '99) the honor of Best Screenplay for her film The Lost Daughter.
The Venice International Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 78th iteration of the festival, taking place September 1–11, 2021.
Associate Professor Nico Baumbach was awarded the Columbia University Alliance Program Joint Projects Grant for his project Reshaping our Digital Interactions: Subjectivity in the PostCinema age, in cooperation with Judith Michalet of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Film and Media Studies alumnus William Plotnick ’20 and Gustavo Menezes co-programmed the Sessão Cinelimite Virtual Film Program, presented by Mostra de Cinema de Gostoso earlier this month.
The abridged, virtual iteration of the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival kicked off this past weekend with screenings of Anthony Mann’s Border Incident (1949) and John Farrow’s Where Danger Lives(1950).
Film MA alumnus Peter Labuza '14 won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Award for Best Dissertation for his essay: “When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Deal Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood.”
“A Beginner’s Guide to National Cinema Theory,” written by Film alumna Alexandra James ’18, was named Film Inquiry’s Best Article of the Year.
Film and Media Studies student Madeleine Collier is among International Film Festival Rotterdam’s 2021 Young Film Critics.
Professor of Professional Practice Richard Peña co-curated American Fringe with Livia Bloom Ingram.
Professor Annette Insdorf recently interviewed writer-producer-director Aaron Sorkin as part of the 92nd Street Y’s signature film series, Reel Pieces.
An alumnus directed film had its Latin American premiere at the La Plata International Independent Film Festival FestiFreak, October 17-19. The film, The Sky is Clear and Blue Today, written and directed by Ricky D'Ambrose '12, had its World premiere last Fall at the New York Film Festival.
Professor Annette Insdorf is among the recipients of 92nd Street Y’s 2020 Extraordinary Women Awards, which honor “game-changing and trailblazing women who bring equity, leadership and contributions to their communities and who work to rebuild a world in which we all belong.”