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Alumni celebrate NewsDoc 25th Anniversary
NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain Wins College Television Award for Thesis Documentary “A Dream Called Khushi”
The 44th College Television Awards were presented on April 5, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.
NewsDoc Student Tamar Baruch won the IDA David Wolper Student Documentary Award
Baruch directed and produced "Her Name Was Zehava".
NewsDoc Alum Contessa Gayles’ feature film, Songs from the Hole, premiered earlier this year.
The film will show in NYC at the Urbanworld Film Festival on Saturday 11/16 at 4:30PM at the Regal Union Square.
NYU Journalism alum Jaime Villarreal released “Mon Laferte, te amo”, a Netflix documentary that tells the story of Mon Laferte, the artist who overcame a life of abuse to revolutionize music in Latin America.
Filmed over a three-year period in which the artist was intimately portrayed, this documentary was created and produced by Jaime Villarreal, creative director and founder of Blackstar Content.
NewsDoc Alum Rishabh Jain won a 2024 Student Academy Award.
Of the 2683 films submitted, Rishabh's documentary film, "A Dream Called Khushi" was one of three to win the award in the Documentary category. Rishabh's win marks NewsDoc's 11th student academy award win.
NewsDoc Alumn Ziyi Xu’s film, “Bucking on the Rez”, will premiere at DOCNYC this year
Read more on docnyc.com.
Qingyue Zheng, a current NewsDoc student was awarded the IFG Best Impact Potential second prize at CNEX Chinese Doc Forum ‘24.
She received a $6000 award for her film Lady Lion, a documentary on China’s first trans woman.
NewsDoc had its inaugural screening event for alumni Contessa Gayle’s new project, The Debutantes.
The screening room at 20 Cooper Square opened in the fall of 2024. The screening was followed by a Q&A with Gayles and NewsDoc alum Alyse Shorland.
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media Award New Pathways Alliance Prize to Newsdoc students Susanna Calhoun and Laya Hartman.
Susanna Calhoun was announced as the winner of the short-form category with their documentary titled “Absenteeism In Queens”. Laya Hartman was announced the winner of the long-form category with the documentary “Rolling Dreams”. “Rolling Dreams” will be screened at the NewsDoc Film Festival scheduled for February 2025.
Two NewsDoc Student Documentaries Longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards
My Lens, My Land by Ke Chen and Nancy Joy by Franky Dean were both selected for the longlist, which is 20 documentaries in length. The awards received over 800 submissions.
NewsDoc alum Giorgio Ghiotto won the Non Fiction Series student Emmy for his thesis documentary, Wings of Dust
Giorgio also won theThe Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award, given to only one of the winners, with an award of $4000. He follows in the footsteps of Shuhao Tse who won these award last year.