The Legacy of Milos Forman
In 1978, esteemed director Milos Forman and his Screenwriting mentor Frank Daniel were appointed co-chairs of the Film Program. Under their leadership, the program flourished and became the world-renowned institution of film education that it is today. In many ways, Forman was the "creative founder" of Columbia Film, having shaped and refined its commitment to narrative filmmaking anchored in strong screenplays. He gave it a character as distinct as his own—original, passionate, intelligent, and international.
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On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
Little Big Women, co-written by alumna Maya Huang '16, is now available to view on. The film premiered at the 2020 Busan International Film Festival in Taiwan in October.
Permits and Approvals, written and directed by student Jackie Todd, produced by student Caitlin Ferrell and co-produced by student Tyler St. Pierre, screened at the Nevermore Film Festival from February 26 to March 4, 2021.
Professor and Head of the Screenwriting Concentration Jamal Joseph is featured as an interviewee in the BBC documentary series Can't Get You Out of My Head in the episode titled “Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing.
Alumna Annemarie Jacir '02 took home the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at the 18th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market for her project The Oblivion Theory last week.
Columbia College alumna and Film major Sasha Stewart ’09 wrote and co-produced the new Netflix docuseries Amend: The Fight for America.
Four films written and directed by Columbia filmmakers will screen at the Miami Film Festival at Miami Dade College from March 5 to March 14, 2021. They are: Buzzkill, The Coronation Así en la Tierra, and Aburo.
The winners of the Golden Globe Awards 2021 were announced on Sunday, and Jodie Foster won the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for The Mauritanian.
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that Ayad Akhtar '02, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of 'Disgraced' and author of 'Homeland Elegies', will be the speaker at the School’s virtual recognition of graduates, to be posted online on Friday, April 30 at 12:30 pm.
Celebrating its eighth year of connecting talented alumni with the film industry, the& Columbia Blue List represents the finest unproduced screenplays and television pilots written by recent graduates the Columbia University School of the Arts graduate Film Program.
The short drama Outsiders , directed by Film student Gleb Osatinksi and co-written by Osatinski and alumnus Joshua Harris ’20, won the award for Best Student Film at the Paris Film Festival.
For George on His 30th Birthday, written, directed & featuring music by alumna Ursula Ellis '17 is now available to view on Directors Notes and Film Shortage.
