Alumni

Cinema Studies Alumni

This page showcases selected achievements of our Alumni. 

Notifications and Requests for additions may be sent to filmoffice@colorado.edu.

  Selections are made purely at the discretion of the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts faculty.

Our graduates have successful film careers, becoming producers, artists, editors, directors, actors, camerapersons, and working on the crews of documentaries, narrative features, and experimental films. Some graduate achievement include: winner of award for cinematography at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; Emmy award winners; nominated for best cinematography at the Independent Spirit Awards; The Independent Film Channel’s award for excellence in student filmmaking; nominated Academy Award, Best Short; gold award from Center for Public Broadcasting as co-producer; international production credits including director/producer/camera roles in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nicaragua, Thailand, Croatia, Bhutan, Vietnam, Angola, UK and Venezuela; one grad is one of the youngest filmmakers to join the Director’s Guild of America; another grad has received two MacDowell Colony fellowships since 2004.

 

Alumni in Action List

Alumni In Action: Kelsey Bollig

Alumni in Action: Kelsey Bollig BFA, Film Studies (2015)   What have you been involved in since graduating from CU? Everything. I immediately moved to San Francisco a month after graduation and worked as a photographer for two years. I used photography to get down to LA where I switched gears and worked as a content producer for an Entertainment News Company. Working in Entertainment News was truly a film nerd's DREAM, I was so thankful to land that job. 2 years into that gig I ended up pitching a short s...

Laura Conway (MFA '20) to Have Film Premiere at Slamdance

Laura Conway (MFA, 2020)   Laura Conway's film The Length of Day, which was funded in part by a Grillo Award, will have its world premier at the 2021 Slamdance film festival. Tickets to the festival are free until December 31st! Get Tickets Here The Length of Day is a collaged essay film that tells an emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparent...

Alumni In Action: Alana Murphy

Alana Murphy (BFA, 2015) tells us a little about where she's been since graduating and what life is like working in the camera department on major productions.

Alumni In Action: Calum Walters

Cinema Studies Alumus Calum Walters has earned recognition for his film work at multiple festivals in the US and abroad. Most recently, his film Meridian has been selected to screen at Berlinale (Berlin Internatinal Film Festival. For more information about Calum and his filmography, Click Here.

Alumni In Action: Ian Soroka

We are proud to announce that Cinemas Studies Alumnus Ian Soroka has been invited to premiere his debut feature Greetings From Free Forests at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Previously Ian has earned recognition at festivals internationally and has had installations and screenings for his shorts in museums in the US and Abroad. For more information on his film and work with the Film Society of Lincoln Center please CLICK HERE To Learn More About Ian Soroka, Visit His Website Here  

Alumni In Action: Adam Sekular (update)

The Flamingo (update) This month, an incredibly generous donor reached out to offer to provide production gear instead of cash to our film The Flamingo. In lieu of this exciting contribution, we've revised our fundraising goals and now are only a little more than $2500 shy of what it will cost to continue filming this year. Support has flowed in from forty-six donors, but we still need your help. Please go to our go-fund-me page and consider making a contribution today.  My last few feature-length films hav...

Alumni In Action: Eric Stewart & Taylor Dunne

CU Cinema Studies Alumni Eric Stewart and Taylor Dunne Gain recognition for their work in creating their documentary, Off Country. Off Country tackles the nuclear weapons build-up through experimental film making. For more information, CLICK HERE