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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Distance, written and directed by Grace Swee '18 and produced by Apoorva Charan '18, is now streaming on Vidsee, as part of the Viddsee Juree Awards Singapore 2020, Out Of Competition program.
Out of the Past, Into the Future is a bi-weekly series that aims to chronicle a limitless scope of work by Columbia filmmaker’s representative of the past, present, and future.
Three films, written and directed by students and alumni, premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, running September 25 to October 30. They are, Lonely Blue Night, written, directed and edited by alumnus Johnson Cheng '20, produced by alumna Apoorva Charan '18 and associate produced by alumnus Ewing Luo '18, Death of Nintendo, written and produced by alumna Valerie Castillo Martinez '16 and edited by alumnus Cyril Aris '17, and Mirror, written and directed by student Christina Yoon and…
Entre tú y Milagros, a short film directed by Mariana Saffon '19, written by Saffon and alumna Nathalie Álvarez Mesén '19, produced by Saffon and student Jorge Granados Ross, associate produced by alumnus Saim Sadiq '19 and edited by alumnus Andrew Stephen Lee '18 continues to make waves on the festival circuit by taking home the Best Narrative Short Film award at the Oscar-qualifying 28th Hamptons International Film Festival.
Former Visiting Professor Thomas Elsaesser has a new book, which will be released posthumously in March from Routledge, called The Mind-Game Film. Developed from the course Elsaesser taught at Columbia, The Mind-Game Film was completed by his colleagues and former students, among whom is Adjunct Assistant Professor Seung-hoon Jeong. Jeong came from Korea to teach the course in Spring 2020 after Elsaesser’s passing. This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser’s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from…
Stella For Star, co-written and directed by alumnus Nick Singer '19 and co-written by alumnus Ben Gottlieb '19, is now available to view on Filmatique. Stella for Star premiered at IFFBoston, New Orleans, St. Cloud, the Big Apple Film Festival, and it won the Hammer-to-Nail Short Film Contest.
MFA Film, Second Year Students, Chair Update 10-16-2020
MFA Film, First Year Students, Chair Update 10-16-2020
