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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.
Adjunct Film Professor and alumnus J. Hoberman '81 wrote Duck Soup (Bloomsbury, 2021) a new book on the Marx Brothers' famous movie of the same name.
Associate Professor Racquel Gates served as the consulting producer and editor for The Criterion Collection’s new Melvin Van Peebles box set.
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.