AEMM News

General News

Guest Speaker Robyn Waters

Ecenter Loan Days for Small Businesses

AEMM Freshmen Meet & Greet

On Wednesday, September 25, the Freshman Meet & Greet hosted A Career in Independent Filmmaking: Strategies for Success. The event featured a screening of the short film UNA CAUSA NOBLE (A Noble Cause), followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, Miles Merritt and Gail Kempler. The discussion was moderated by instructor Robert Cronberg.

The film focused on the effects of the US’s policy to expedite citizenship for foreign nationals who enlist in the US armed forces. Well attended by AEMMDept classes and individual freshmen, the event gave students the opportunity to learn about the business of independent filmmaking.For more information on Freshman Meet & Greet events, contact Phyllis Johnson at pjohnson@colum.edu.

MusiciansStudio on WYCC-TV20

Faculty News

Margie Nicholson (AEMM) recently served on the media arts panel at the National Endowment for the Arts, in Washington, D.C., where she reviewed proposals in the access to artistic excellence category. Fellow panelists included Alyce Myatt, managing director for Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media; David Liu, former director of programming at Lifetime Cable Network; and Sterling Van Wagenen, independent filmmaker and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival.

Philippe Ravanas (AEMM) was invited to join the editorial staff of NonFiction.fr, a reference website for the French-speaking academic world. The site receives about 10,000 hits per day, and features professors from institutions around the world, including leading universities in France, as well as Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. Ravanas also wrote a review of Super Cruncher for the site. The book, by Yale economics professor Ian Ayres, address the future of forecasting and database management—subjects Ravanas teaches at Columbia in his Box Office Management class. The article can be read here.

Kimo Williams - Chicagoan of the Year

Kimo Williams - Music Business Coordinator, on CSI NY

Adjunct Faculty News

'Stellar' AEMM faculty member honored with 6 Gospel Awards

Student News

AEMM Midem 2008 - Check page 47 in this Midem publication.

AEMM students help 'Stop School Violence'

Student Spotlight