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Two-time Academy Award winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler with F&V alums Suree Towfighnia (MFA '06), Stephen Combs (MFA '05), + faculty/staff Larry Kapson (BA '99) and Ronn Pitts documented the demonstrations against the 2012 NATO Summit on the feature, Four Days in Chicago. Read more...

F&V writer/director/co-producer William Bryan (BA '12) marked his tenth trip to Memphis, Tennessee by locking down the
pre-production aspects of his passion project, Nobody, a biographical short film about Elvis Presley. Read more...

F&V alum Heather Dunoon (BA '13) was named the 2013 Michael Collyer Fellow in Screenwriting, receiving recognition from the Writers Guild (East) and $10,000 for writing a feature film she pitched titled Remember Me. Read more...

F&V student AJ Young ('14) won the Academy’s Oscar Experience College Search, handed out statuettes during the ceremony in February, and made it a priority to network while in Los Angeles. Read more...

Bob Teitel (BA ’90), producer of Barbershop, Soul Food, Notorious, and many other films, was a smash hit teaching the Creative Producing graduate class as part of Semester in LA. Read more...

F&V faculty member Dan Rybicky’s Almost There was one of four submissions chosen from across the country to receive funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and premiere on PBS later in 2014. Read more...

The Film & Video Department will have a new name beginning February 1, 2014: The Department of Cinema Art + Science. Read more...

Columbia College students Sean Grasse ('13) and Sam Bengtson ('13) attended CinemaCon in Las Vegas as part of the Sprite Films Competition and met with Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. Read more...

F&V alumni Eric McCoy, Director (BA '09), and Justus Meyer, Producer (BA '11), have teamed up to formally launch their award-winning production company, McCoy & Meyer, with the debut of a headline commercial for Famous Footwear's nationwide Mother's Day campaign. Read more...

The Film & Video Department's Big Screen—held Thursday, April 25—screened nine finalist films and presented cash awards to A.J. Sheeran’s (BA '11) The Treehouse (Best of Fest and Audience Award), Maria Abraham’s (MFA '12) Girl With Child (Cinematography Award to Chris Nelson), and Nick Barks’ (BA '11) Dispatch (Editing Award). Read more...

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