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UGFTV alumni receive Award Nominations and Wins
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025
Congratulations to all the UGFTV alumni who have received BAFTA, Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, DGA, and Independent Spirit Award nominations and wins across various categories.
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UGFTV at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Monday, Feb 3, 2025
UGFTV Wins at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival!
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UGFTV Alumni Receive Academy Award Nominations
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025
The 97th Annual Academy Awards were announced on Thursday January 23rd, 2025, and we're thrilled to celebrate the UGFTV alumni nominees!
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UGFTV Alum selected for 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive
Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025
The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the fellows selected for the 2025 Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive programs. Congratulations to UGFTV alum Ward Kamel ('20) on being selected as a 2025 fellow.
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UGFTV alum receives Steve Jobs Archive Fellowship
Friday, Jan 17, 2025
Growing up, J Wang (TSOA ’20) [she/her] wasn’t one to speak much, but she discovered a new voice through storytelling in film.
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UGFTV alum wins 'No Drama' grant
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024
Chandler Crump, UGFTV '23, has been selected to receive a $50,000 grant in the inaugural "No Drama" initiative from TIFF, Jordon Peele's Monkey Paw Productions, and Universal Entertainment.
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NYU Tisch Named Top Film School of 2024
Monday, Nov 4, 2024
Newspage of the Wrap article declaring NYU Tisch's Film School as the top film school of 2024
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UGFTV Alum Ward Kamel Wins Prestigious Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting
Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024
Selected from 5,500 scripts representing 80 countries, Ward Kamel was one of 5 recipients this year for his project If I Die in America. The fellowship will support the feature script development of his thesis short from UGFTV.
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Passion & Persistence of UGFTV Prof Dean Lennert
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
The inspiration for "Dear Anna Olson," goes back to 1987 when Prof Lennert found a note tied to a balloon caught up in a tree. The note said, “My name is Anna Olson” It included her mailing address of the nursing home where she was a resident and ended with “Please Write to me.”
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UGFTV Alum Karen Herwono accepted into LAIKA Studios Intership
Thursday, Apr 25, 2024
Karen Herwono (Class of '23) has been accepted into the LAIKA Studios ("Coraline" "Kubo and the Two Strings") Stop Motion Summer Internship Program, a highly competitive program.
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