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Tisch School of the Arts News & Press

The Dirty "S" Word - Sell!: 02/09/2012 - Join us for an exciting panel discussion and case study in low-budget guerilla niche marketing completely outside the studio and "indie producer" system. More
Getting the Most from Your Internship: 02/08/2012 - Learn how to make the most of your internship experience. More
Faye Ginsburg - Screening Disabilities in a Digital Age: 02/08/2012 - This talk addresses how documentaries, narratives, film festivals and interactive digital technologies are providing unanticipated and powerful platforms for those with disabilities to communicate to a broad range of publics. More
Miral: A Palestinian / Israeli Dialogue On and Off Screen: 02/02/2012 - A screening and discussion of Miral (112 min., 2010, Director: Julian Schnabel). More
top Tisch Alumni Make Sundance Impressions: 02/02/2012 - The Tisch School continues to have an immense impact on the Sundance Film Festival; this year more than 1 in 3 films was shaped by a Tisch student, alumnus/a or faculty member. More
David Forgacs on Neorealism and Photography: 02/01/2012 - This talk will look at a relatively unexplored aspect of neorealist cinema: its relationship with the still photograph. More
A People Uncounted - Screening and Discussion, Feb 8: 02/01/2012 - A People Uncounted tells the story of the Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, people who have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture. Screening followed by a discussion with director Aaron Yeger and producers Marc Swenker and Tom Rasky. More
2012 Awards Season Recap: 01/30/2012 - The Tisch School has trained some of the world's leading artists, scholars and innovators. Tisch training is nothing short of a lighting rod for change -- the 2012 awards season is a sampling of those who have had a profound impact on the way stories are told. More
Tisch 2012 Oscar Nominees Include Lucy Walker, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin: 01/24/2012 - Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards® were announced Tuesday, January 24th by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Tisch community continues to be well represented among the nominations. More
top Show One 2012: Photography & Imaging Thesis Exhibition: 01/19/2012 - An exhibition featuring approximately 70 works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by 13 graduating seniors from the class of 2012 in the Department of Photography & Imaging. More
Dean's Council Martin Scorsese ('64/'68/'Hon. '92) Scores at Globes: 01/15/2012 - At the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Tisch did not fail to impress. More
New Directors Flesh Out Black America: 01/04/2012 - Great piece in the NY Times featuring alumni from the Graduate Division, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, including Dee Rees '07, Rashaad Ernesto Green '03/'11, Alrick Brown '08, Seith Mann '02, and Artistic Director, Graduate Film, Kanbar Institute, Spike Lee '82/HON.'98. More
Acting Helps Soldier Cope with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: 01/04/2012 - Nick Brennan '10 (BFA, Kanbar Film/TV) was featured in an article on the front page of the New York Times (Jan. 2, 2012) for a short film he completed in which he cast a wounded veteran and amputee. The article is about the veteran and the salutary healing experience he had while acting in Brennan's short film. More
Tisch Alumni Featured in this Week's Variety Front Page: 01/04/2012 - Front Page of weekly Variety, issue Jan 2-8 (print and on-line), features the creative team and cast of NBC's highly-anticipated new show, SMASH. Featured on the cover is SMASH star, Debra Messing '93 (MFA, Acting), and director/consulting producer Michael Mayer '83 (BFA, Acting). Also shown is Marc Parees '11 (MFA, Kanbar Film), assistant to Michael Mayer. More
top Golden Globe Nominations for the Tisch Community: 12/15/2011 - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on December 15th. More
Eight Tisch Alumni Nominated for 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: 12/14/2011 - The 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards will be broadcast on TNT at 8 p.m. (ET) and 5 p.m. (PT). More
Michael C. Hall ('93), Heather Lind ('10), Rainn Wilson ('89) Nominated for 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: 12/14/2011 - Three Grad Acting Alums are Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees for this year. More
Announcing MFA in Game Design Fall 2012: 12/13/2011 - The NYU Tisch Game Center, one of the world’s leading academic game programs, will offer a new Masters of Fine Arts degree beginning in Fall 2012. MFA students will explore games as a creative art form as they design and develop games within a context of rigorous scholarly study in the two-year program at the NYU Tisch Game Center. More
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: 11/30/2011 - The Last Days of Judas Iscariot as performed by the NYU Acting Practicum at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. More
top The Collective Presents Celebrate Our Voices, An Open Arts Night: 11/25/2011 - Similar to an open mic night, Celebrate Our Voices: An Open Arts Night is a chance for the members of the Tisch community to come together and share their art with each other. More
ITP Big Screens Show: 11/25/2011 - Projects displayed on a 120 foot video wall at IAC headquarters. More
a cautionary tail.: 11/24/2011 - Presented by the Graduate Acting Program in association with the Department of Design for Stage & Film. A 3rd Year Production. More
Catalan Shots: Discussion w/Joan Fontcuberta & Agusti Torres: 11/21/2011 - This event is part of the Catalan Days festival (www.llull.cat/catalandays), produced by the Institut Ramon Llull to promote Catalan culture and taking place in New York City from September through December 2011. More
Def Jam @ 25 - A Conversation Event: 10/17/2011 - During this rare conversation event, authors Bill Adler, Cey Adams and Dan Charnas presented a video/slide lecture and Q&A about their new book. More
top Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture: 10/14/2011 - Hacking War Game Culture, A Film by Roger Stahl More
Revolution Photographs from Libya 2011 by Bryan Denton (P&I '05): 10/13/2011 - An alumnus of the Department, Denton is based in Beirut, Lebanon and has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times on assignment in Libya for the past six months. More
Filmmaker Nilita Vachani presents Eyes of Stone: 10/12/2011 - A screening and discussion of Eyes of Stone, with filmmaker Nilita Vachani. More
Dramatic Writing Alumni Visit to Offer Career Insight: 10/03/2011 - Professor Janet Neipris moderated a panel of three alumni of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. More
2011 NYU Alumni Day: 09/24/2011 - September 24, 2011 was NYU Alumni Day! Fellow alumni, friends, students, NYU faculty, and other members of the NYU community descended on Washington Square to experience NYU and NYC. More
top Tisch Community Claim Emmys®!: 09/19/2011 - In ceremonies in Los Angeles, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences celebrated the winners of the annual Creative Arts and Primetime Emmy® Awards. More
Artist Lecture: Sunil Gupta's Monograph "Queer": 09/13/2011 - Celebrating the publication of photographer Sunil Gupta's first monograph Queer. More
How Has Life Changed Since 9/11: Works by Faculty and Staff: 08/30/2011 - An exhibition of approximately 70 works created by the faculty and staff of the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television will open Sept. 6 and remain on view through Oct. 8, 2011. More
Creative Arts & Primetime Emmy® Award Nominees: 07/14/2011 - On July 14, 2011, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy® Awards. And the Tisch nominees are... More
Tisch News Spring/Summer 2011: 07/11/2011 - Read the latest version of Tisch News: Spring/Summer 2011, featuring: The Faces of Tisch Film: Tisch Alumni Shaping American Film in 2011, and Clive Davis Renews Pledge of $5 Million. More
top NYU Paris Presents Debut of Atlantic Edge Film Festival: 06/26/2011 - The Edge Atlantic Film Festival (EAFF), created by NYU in France, made its New York debut June 27 through 29. A selection of eight outstanding student films representing NYU’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Televisionand La Fémis, the French national school of cinema were screened. Among the student films were James Franco’s Herbert White, a 2010 Sundance Festival selection. More
Tisch Triumphant at Tonys: 06/12/2011 - Hosted at New York City's Beacon Theatre, the 65th annual Tony Awards recognized those distinguishing themselves in American theatre, including some of Tisch's very own. More
Tierney Fellowship Exhibition: Bolinas by Rachel Barrett: 06/02/2011 - Bolinas is an earnest look at a small, unincorporated and largely off-the-grid community in Northern California, resting precariously on the coast of the Pacific. More
ITP's Red Burns to be Honored with a Webby Award for Special Achievement: 06/01/2011 - Red Burns, professor and founder of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has been awarded a Special Achievement Webby Award by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. The presentation will be made at the 15th Annual Webby Awards Gala June 13, 2011 at Hammerstein Ballroom. More
Tisch Salute 2012: 05/14/2011 - The Tisch Salute to the Class of 2012 will be held Friday, May 18th from 3pm to 5pm at Radio City Music Hall. More
top 14 Nominated for 2011 Tony Awards®: 05/03/2011 - The 2011 Nominations for the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, also known as the Tony Awards®, were announced Tuesday, May 3rd. More
Orz Boys in 35mm: 04/30/2011 - A 35mm screening of Orz Boys (104 min, 2008, Taiwan), introduced by NYU Cinema Studies professor Zhen Zhang. More
Marie de Brugerolle presents Guy de Cointet's "Observations of an Old Woman": 04/27/2011 - Marie de Brugerolle is an art historian, curator, artist and dramatist. She will introduce a DVD screening of "Observations of an Old Woman" (ca 1971-72, 8mm, color, sound, 28 min.), a rarely seen film by famed artist Guy de Cointet, and present it in the context of his work. More
Careers in Film and Media Culture: A Panel Discussion: 04/20/2011 - A panel discussion on the state of career opportunities in a variety of areas related to film and media culture. More
A Film Unfinished - a screening and discussion with filmmaker Yael Hersonski: 04/15/2011 - A screening of A Film Unfinished (2010, 88 min), followed by a discussion with filmmaker Yael Hersonski. More
top Rajinder Dudrah - Mancunian Br-Asians Bop Bollywood: Haptic Urban Ethnoscapes in the City: 04/13/2011 - This paper will situate and advance the study of Bollywood cinema-going and related popular cultural activities in the city of Manchester, UK. More
Dinner at Eight: 04/12/2011 - George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 comedy Dinner at Eight celebrates (and satirizes) the lives of the rich and stylish during the Great Depression, but it also conveys darker currents that ran through the upper strata of New York society of that era, as they do today. More
Two Golden Ages: Mexican and Korean Cinema in Focus: 04/06/2011 - This talk focuses on constructions of gender and articulations of sexuality in Mexican and Korean melodramas, the privileged mode of both film cultures. More
James Franco to Teach at Tisch Next Year: 04/01/2011 - James Franco showed some love for NYU at the Oscars, and now he's coming back for more. Next year, Franco will teach a section of graduate film students at Tisch. More
Three Peabody Awards for Tisch's Own: 03/31/2011 - Recognizing distinguished achievement and meritorious service, the George Foster Peabody Awards will recognize three of Tisch's own... More
top Somewhere Over the Dreamland, with Taiwanese scholar Wenchi Lin: 03/30/2011 - (2002, 93 min, Taiwan) Presented in 35mm and introduced by Taiwanese scholar and curator Wenchi Lin. More
The Reality Shows: a conversation with Karen Finley: 03/30/2011 - Conversation between Karen Finley and Ann Pellegrini More
Cabaret Central: My Sweet Edible You!: 03/25/2011 - Atlantic Theatre faculty member Katie Bull directs a sensuous cast in a delicious concoction that imaginatively plumbs the repertoire of jazz standards to extol one of life’s great pleasures – apart from music of course! Namely, food glorious food so come hungry! More
Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener - Film Theory and Digital Animation: Same Old Story or New Frontier?: 03/25/2011 - Elsaesser and Hagener will discuss challenges to traditional film theory and the body-senses nexus as presented by animation and the digital, using Avatar and the Pixar-oeuvre as examples. More
Show Three 2011: P&I Senior Thesis Exhibition: 03/17/2011 - An exhibition featuring approximately 50 works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by 14 graduating seniors from the class of 2011 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television will open March 24, 2011. More
top The Politics of Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Cultural Criticism: 03/11/2011 - A workshop with Tang Ying and Zhang Xian, acclaimed Chinese writers, critics and performance festival organizers. More
On Hostile Ground: a screening with co-director Jenny Raskin: 03/09/2011 - This compelling film explores the issues of anti-abortion and women's health care violence through the eyes of three dedicated U.S. abortion providers. More
Seung-hoon Jeong - Apocalypse, Atopia: Cinematic Symptoms of Global Phenomena: 03/02/2011 - Framing "global cinema" as born out of two decade-defining collapses (of the Berlin Wall and the World Trade Center), this talk draws attention to the visual motif of "falling" in current world cinema. More
The Altruists: 03/01/2011 - Acclaimed playwright and Tisch Drama alumnus Nicky Silver returns to direct his own play, but with a special element of added value – a curtain raiser, newly written to complement the StageWorks production! Described in Variety as "Exhilarating! Exceedingly funny! More
Spirit and Oscar Victories for Four from NYU Tisch School's Kanbar Institute of Film & TV: 02/27/2011 - Four of NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film & Television's own were victorious at ceremonies that saw tight competition amongst filmmakers and actors alike. More
top 2011 Student Conference - Lost and Found: Nostalgia in Media: 02/25/2011 - This year's conference aims to explore, embrace, commemorate, and/or critique the concept of nostalgia as it relates to cinema and other forms of media. More
Eric Le Roy - Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance, 1940-1944: Documentary Propaganda Films Made in France: 02/16/2011 - Screening of rare, newly restored, politically controversial shorts, made under Vichy. More