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NewsDoc Alumni featured at Tribeca Film Festival

So wonderful for the current NewsDoc class to share the NYC premiere at Tribeca Film Festial with Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang and Yuanchen Liu, all NewsDoc alumni who worked on One Child Nation.

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Alum NewsDoc alum Meredith Lawrence interviewed about her film “My Grandmother’s Grape Leaves”

In “My Grandmother’s Grape Leaves,” Alum Meredith Lawrence interweaves insights into Armenian history with scenes of Armenian-American home cooks.

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In Puff Puff Pak, a NewsDoc student explores the connection between cigarettes and his masculinity

Puff Puff Pak came about as filmmaker/journalist Fahad Naveed's Masters thesis for NYU’s News and Documentary program.

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NYU Journalism salutes two faculty from News and Documentary who have films in the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

Nanfu Wang and alum Jianling Zhan's "One Child Nation" and Jason Samuels' "A Kid from Coney Island" will be shown at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

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Alums Nanfu Wang and Jailing Zhang win top award at Full Frame

"One Child Nation” has taken home another Grand Jury prize. Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s Sundance winner was presented with the Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

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NewsDoc Alum Shehzad Hameed Ahmad Wins More Awards

New York Festivals 2019 Double Win

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Award-winning Nanfu Wang back in town with her latest film!

"One Child Nation" has screenings at Tribeca Film Festival.

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Two NYU Journalism NewsDoc alums, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize

“One Child Nation” is a documentary about China’s policy of forcibly restricting family size.

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NewsDoc grad Mathieu Faure wins student Academy Award for his thesis documentary, An Edited Life

Mathieu Faure wins the big one, the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary! His documentary, An Edited Life is now eligible for an Oscar nomination.

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Two films from recent NewsDoc graduates were selected for the Margaret Mead Film Festival in October

Jing Liu's "Her Words" and Tsering Wangmo's "Tibetan Nomads in Exile" will be shown at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in the American Museum of Natural History in October.

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Two NewsDoc students are finalists for the 2018 Student Academy Awards

Veronica Wangshen's "1,500 Miles 23 Days" and Mathieu Faure's "An Edited Life" are finalists in the Documentary (Domestic Film Schools) category.

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NewsDoc alum Alice Xue Yu’s film “Family Meal, NYC” nominated for James Beard Award

Congratulations to alum Alice Xue Yu, whose interactive piece Family Meal, NYC for CNN earned a James Beard Award nomination.

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