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Ruby Que '20 and Prof. Sabine Haenni

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Students move annual film festival online

by : Bryan Hagelin , Department of Performing & Media Arts

As Cornell University shifts to remote instruction due to COVID-19, this year's Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF), Cornell’s annual student-run film competition celebrating student filmmakers, will also move online. Selected films will be available for free streaming between April 24 and May 1 at CentrallyIsolatedFilmFestival.org.Since 2013, the Centrally Isolated Film Festival has been a…

Professor David Feldshuh

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Professor David Feldshuh’s “Antigone” adaptation “rings true to modern audiences”

by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

Laws of nature versus man. Misogyny and elitism. Dissent as a crime. These themes and more are explored in Antigone by Sophocles, adapted by Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts professor David Feldshuh and recently produced at Baltimore Center Stage to sold-out audiences in March 2019.Daniel Bryant, the Director of Community Programs and Artistic Producer of Center Stage…

Amanda Idoko '10

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Alumna lands feature film deals

by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

The first feature film of Department of Performing & Media Arts alumna Amanda Idoko ’10, "Breaking News in Yuba County," will be produced in mid-2019, starring Allison Janney and Laura Dern. The film will be directed by "The Girl on the Train" and "The Help" director Taylor Tate, who says, “The moment I read Amanda’s dark and brilliant script, I knew it was the one for Allison. It’s a perfect…

Actors in the production of Constellations.

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Two People Encounter Infinite Possibilities in “Constellations”

by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

How many chances do we get to make a first impression? For Roland and Marianne, the two protagonists in Constellations by Nick Payne, the answer is infinite. In the play, running November 1–3 in the Black Box Theatre at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Payne proposes that life exists in a multiverse, in which countless parallel existences play out simultaneously, allowing for an…