MIA CIOFFI HENRY
Invisible Beauty, featuring cinematography by Grad Film faculty Mia Cioffi Henry, released in theaters. Directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Cheng, the documentary follows fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison as she looks back on her life and legacy. Invisible Beauty screened at major film festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and was awarded Best Documentary Feature and the Industry Audience Award at the Sarasota Film Festival. Read more...
Grad Film selected MFA Candidate Mariano Dongo as this year's recipient for the Robert Oberman, Gregory Pickert, and Media Services Producing Award. The honor, which is selected by producing faculty, is given to a Graduate Film candidate in the third year of the program for outstanding producing work over their course of studies. Read more...
The Black Family Foundation and Grad Film faculty selected thesis students Chheangkea Ieng, Elo Santa Maria, and Jason Adam Maselle as the winners of the 2022-2023 Black Family Prize for Thesis Short Films. Read more...
Grad Film alumni and faculty were featured across eight different categories at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, with one film receiving an award! Read more...
Lorena Durán was the recipient of the Jeff Lima Production Award for 2023. Lorena's short film, Dilia Won't Die, explores three Dominican-American women failing to co-exist under the same roof in Queens, NY, following a physically-impaired mother’s obsession with winning an online Dominoes tournament, unleashing devastating consequences on her teenage daughter and her vindictive caregiver. Read more...
Grad Film students and alumi screened and premiered films at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Three films received awards! Read more...
MFA Candidate Kaitlyn Busbee was the recipient of this year’s Volker Bahnemann Award for Outstanding Cinematography. Read more...
Grad Film Alum Mamadou Dia was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Film-Video category. Dia was one of 171 individuals selected from nearly 2,500 applicants spanning 48 different scholarly disciplines. Read more...
Professor Spike Lee, Artistic Director of the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program, announced the recipients of this year’s Spike Lee Film Production Fund. Read more...
The 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations recognized the best in American Primetime television programming from June 1, 2022, until May 31, 2023, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Six Grad Film alumni were nominated over nine different categories. Read more...
Grad Film alum and “poet-turned-filmmaker” Raven Jackson was featured in the LA Times on July 27th, with an interview focusing on her debut feature All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by A24. Read more...
The Princess Grace Foundation recognized 18 Princess Grace Award winners and 11 Honoraria recipients. Read more...
Grad Film alum Laura Moss's directorial feature debut Birth/Rebirth released in theaters. Moss’s film is described as an “ultrasmart, ferociously feminist take on the Frankenstein myth” in the New York Times Critic's Pick. Read more...
Congratulations to all of the films from the Grad Film community that screened at the 2023 Woodstock Film Festival, including several that brought home awards. Read more...
Grad Film faculty Spike Lee was honored with an exhibit 'Spike Lee: Creative Sources' at the Brooklyn Museum, from October 7th, 2023 to February 4th, 2024. This immersive installation included over 450 items from Lee's personal collection, each being a source of inspiration for his expansive and influential directorial and film work. Read more...
MFA Candidate Reuben Hamlyn's feature documentary debut Another Body premiered at IFC Center in NYC on October 18th, and on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video on October 20th. Read more...
Grad Film MFA candidate Claire Barnett has received a New York Women in Film & Television 2023 Scholarship. Read more...
PIGLET PIGLET, a short film by Grad Film alum Tsung-Yen Lin, was featured in United Talent Agency’s inaugural student film showcase – UTA Next Gen. Read more...
Grad Film alum Alyssa Loh’s Op-ed ‘Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.’ was featured in the New York Times. Written alongside D.Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt, the article speaks on the importance of the ability to give and hold attention in a media saturated world. Read more...
One Bullet, a feature documentary directed by Grad Film Professor Carol Dysinger, screened at several festivals including, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival, Documentary Edge Film Festival, opened for the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival, and received Best International Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh. Read more...
Grad Film alum Brett Morgen made waves with his film Moonage Daydream. The documentary-musical is a cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. Recently added to the Criterion Collection, Moonage Daydream is now viewable in 4K-UHD. Read more...