Two Projects By Columbia Filmmakers Run at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Two Projects By Columbia Filmmakers Run at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
April 1, 2021Both Project Immerse by lead artist and Associate Professor Lance Weiler and Privy To, a project for which alumna Michelle Leddon '00 serves as Creative Director, will participate in the online Inter:Active line-up which comprises a total of 13 new projects.
read more'Dalia' by Alumni Wins Special Jury Prize at Euregion Film Festival
'Dalia' by Alumni Wins Special Jury Prize at Euregion Film Festival
March 31, 2021The short film directed by alumnus Brúsi Ólason '20, written by alumna Leticia Andrea Akel Escárate '18, and produced by alumnus Kári Úlfsson '20, won the Special Jury Prize at theEuregion Film Festival in the Netherlands, where it screened in February.
read moreFilm Alumna Sandy Tan '00 Publishes Novel 'Lurkers'
Film Alumna Sandy Tan '00 Publishes Novel 'Lurkers'
March 31, 2021Lurkers is a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The narrative concerns the residents of Santa Claus Lane, who do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide.
read moreColumbia Announces 2021 Blue List Winners
Columbia Announces 2021 Blue List Winners
March 30, 20212021 marks the Blue List’s eighth year of connecting the Film Program’s most talented alumni with leading professionals in the world of film and television.
read moreThree Columbia Alumni Projects Selected for Torino FilmLab’s 2021 Scriptlab
Three Columbia Alumni Projects Selected for Torino FilmLab’s 2021 Scriptlab
April 5, 2021They are: The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands, written and directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén ’19, Custo de Vida, a feature project written and directed by Moara Passoni ’20 and Monument directed by Christoph Rainer ’15.
read more'Sophie Jones,' Executive Produced by Nicole Holofcener, is Now Available in Theaters and VOD
'Sophie Jones,' Executive Produced by Nicole Holofcener, is Now Available in Theaters and VOD
March 30, 2021In Sophie Jones, a 16-year-old grapples with the recent death of her mother.
read moreOn A Global Scale: Ellie Foumbi '17 on Waiting
On A Global Scale: Ellie Foumbi '17 on Waiting
March 25, 2021Ellie Foumbi is an actor, writer and director from Cameroon. Her films have screened at several international film festivals, placing in the Student Academy Awards Semifinals and garnering a nomination for an African Movie Academy Award.
read moreAlumna Julia Solomonoff '00 Named Chair of the Graduate Film Program at New York University
Alumna Julia Solomonoff '00 Named Chair of the Graduate Film Program at New York University
March 24, 2021Solomonoff replaces Barbara Shock who served as Chair of Graduate Film for the past seven years.
read moreProfessor Nico Baumbach Receives Columbia University Alliance Program Grant 2021
Professor Nico Baumbach Receives Columbia University Alliance Program Grant 2021
March 24, 2021Baumbach’s initiative seeks to bring together an international group of scholars and artists for a two-day symposium investigating the relationship between the technological environment and processes of subjectivization in the 21st century. It is one of four projects to receive the grant.
read moreBehind the D4: ‘The Midnight Girl’
Behind the D4: ‘The Midnight Girl’
March 23, 2021Behind the D4 is an interview series about the D4 films made by Film MFA Program students. This week, we catch up with the cast and crew of current student Dhruv Sud's The Midnight Girl.
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