Three Columbia Alumns Among 10 New Voices in Black Cinema
The filmmakers featured are as follows:
Randall Dottin - Dottin's 30-minute short, "Lifted," is a captivating story of an aging dancer/single mother and the encounter in a subway station that changes her life. A graduate of Dartmouth and Columbia, Dottin made his student film debut with a short called "A-Alike," which won the Directors Guild of America Award for Best African-American Student Filmmaker, a National Board of Review for Motion Pictures Award for achievement in filmmaking, and the gold medal in the narrative category at the Student Academy Awards.
Khary Jones - Jones's 16-minute short, "Hug," about friendship and mental illness, was one of ten 2009 Sundance Film Festival official selections chosen to screen for free on iTunes during the festival. It is also an official selection of the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival. A Morehouse and Columbia man, Jones has taught filmmaking at Clark University. He is currently working on his next short film, a coming-of-age story entitled "Chrysalis."
Moon Molson - A Dartmouth alumnus, Molson made his thesis film, "Pop Foul," as part of the Columbia MFA program. The emotional father-son drama world-premiered at the 2006 American Black Film Festival, where it won the HBO Short Film Award. It then won the 2007 REEL Shorts Jury Prize at SXSW and was honored at the 2006 Student Academy Awards. Molson was named one of Filmmaker's Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2007.
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