Motion Pictures

The Silver Mirror, a feature-length global documentary film on the topic of Aging in 21st century written, directed and produced by Ali Habashi, a faculty member at the Department of Cinema and interactive Media and shot entirely by Ed Talavera, the Department chair, had its New York premiere on Tuesday, February 11th at Myrna P. Daniels Auditorium in Columbia University. The premiere was hosted by the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University and followed up by an engaging panel discussion that included Dr. Ruth Fischbach, the Director of the Center for [...]

Salvation Army, the rapturous debut feature from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa will premiere at the Cosford Cinema on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m. followed with a special  Q&A with the filmmaker and scholars. The film offers a charged, semi-autobiographical tale about a young graduate who must navigate the sexual, racial, and political intrigue surrounding his arrival in Geneva. Inspired by his own autobiographical novel, Taïa's Salvation Army is a story of coming of age, folding and unfolding with love, pain, desire, and violence. This film is structured in a diptych: [...]

By Alysha Kahn, Journalism senior First year graduate student Shareen Dookie said it was the “most interesting” Spring Break she had ever had. She and 14 of her classmates spent eight days in Guatemala shooting short documentaries about local health and social issues. “Learning about another culture, meeting new people, and seeing a different way of life in only one week can be overwhelming, but this experience was more fun and interesting than anything I've ever done on Spring Break,” said Dookie. The study abroad program is part of the [...]

David Frankel, a producer, director and screenwriter of hit movies and television shows including The Devil Wears Prada, Band of Brothers, Marley & Me, Hope Springs and Sex and the City, will work with School of Communication students on an upcoming HIV outreach project. Alex Moreno, director of P2P HIV/AIDS Adolescent Outreach & Education at Miller School of Medicine, announced Thursday that Frankel will direct a student-written and produced short narrative film about women at-risk for HIV. Frankel, who won an Oscar for his short film Dear Diary, also discussed his [...]