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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
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.
NewsDoc Alum Shehzad Hameed Ahmad Wins More Awards
New York Festivals 2019 Double Win
Award-winning Nanfu Wang back in town with her latest film!
"One Child Nation" has screenings at Tribeca Film Festival.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shehzhad Hameed Ahmad releases doc on Nepal’s Child Brides
Congratulationsto NewsDoc alum Shehzhad Hameed Ahmad, whose documentary Nepal's Child Brides is now live on Channel NewsAsia.
NewsDoc Alum Mona El-Naggar’s “The Story of Esraa” featured at Women’s International Film Festival
Mona El-Naggar’s short doc, The Story of Esraa, was featured at the 2018 Women’s International Film Festival on March 10, 2018.
NYU NewsDoc Alum Contessa Gayle produces Women Who March: The Sequel for CNN
The Women’s March on Washington and hundreds of sister marches across the […]