FACULTY SELECTS ¡ACaballo!
Written by: David Garrett
A peasant woman searches Mexico for her long-lost brother, and sets off a bandit war against a brutal landowner.
drg2105@columbia.edu
212-222-4669
The Arrival
Written by: Myna Joseph
On a remote island off the coast of Maine during World War II, a lonesome teenage girl named Eileen happens upon a German U-boat seaman, stranded and bloody on the beach. She hides him in her basement and nurses him to health until her precocious older sister, Harriet, discovers her secret. Allegiances are tested as the two girls battle for his affections.
mynajoseph@gmail.com
917-817-9483
Jamal
Written by: Mustafa Imam
A 13 year old boy raised in a brothel in India escapes on a journey to track down his real father. On the way he tracks down life, love and a little bit of himself.
mustafaimam@gmail.com
917-282-5426 Joy
Written by: Jack Paglen
After two years in the jungle, Chad Flinn returns to New York expecting to crash with his sister, Joy, but she's up to her old disappearing act. To find her, he explores the alien world which is her life: A sociopath roommate obsessed with carpentry, Over the Counter Drug Addicts Anonymous meetings, flame-throwers, morally questionable therapy, and, of course, Mom and Dad.
jpaglen@gmail.com
646-498-3605
Living in Skin
Written by: Daniel Falcone
Set in New York's downtown rock scene, two twenty-year-old misfits with hardly any prospects become best friends only to realize they are no match for each other.
falc@earthlink.net
646-325-4988
Six Feet Under: Commingling
Written by: Kate Buhrmaster
A dead couple and a doctor's diagnosis force the Fisher
family to consider why some combinations only lead to disaster.
keb2106@columbia.edu
201-988-8480
FACULTY HONORS The Anatomists
Written by: Pawel Grajnert
In early 18th century Edinburgh a young surgeon uncovers a
horrible underworld that supplies the corpses he needs to pursue the science he's devoted his life to pursuing.
p.grajnert@gmail.com
773-729-9407
Glory Masters
Written by: Akin Salawu
St. Louis, 1933: Before tough-as-nails, gun-toting colored singer Glory Masters can finally own her nightclub, she must free herself from the violent grip of Johnny Lacey, the man who runs the bordello she grew up in, and also happens to be her first love.
as2287@columbia.edu
646-242-3158
Mothers
Written by: Jennifer Lee Monn
Live. Grieve. Sacrifice. Survive. Four women, four separate stories, all come together to show us why there is nothing stronger and yet so fragile as the heart of a mother.
jlmonn@gmail.com
718-576-2380 Norway
Written by: Fellipe Barbosa and Andrzej Rattinger
Calebe, a down-on-his-luck illegal immigrant, discovers an outdated law that allows citizens to sell rats by the pound to the Health Department. Hoping to give his vermin-hating wife a better life, Calebe turns his infested Manhattan rooming house into a goldmine. Soon he must choose between his poor unsuspecting family or his successful business scheme.
fgamarosa@gmail.com, rattinger@gmail.com
917-855-0898, 917-453-5921 Pirates of Pinsk
Written by: Yitz Brilliant
Pirates of Pinsk is a fish-out-of-water-mistaken-identity-comedy- adventure in the vein of "The Princess Bride" and "Pirates of the Carribean." Three eighteenth century provincial Jews from Poland are captured on the High Seas and accidentally become legendary pirates themselves.
ijb2101@columbia.edu
917-678-8254 Pretty Is as Pretty Does
Written by: Patricia Carter
Mary Margaret wants to pledge a top sorority -- not easy when you're half white-trash, your little sister dresses like a nun, and your Mama blew up the Kappa Kappa Gamma house in 1982. Her only chance is to sell her soul to the most influential woman in the South... her estranged grandmother.
triciacarter@gmail.com
918-327-1839
Private School
Written by: Craig DiFolco
Corrupt stock analyst Clyde Pressman has one week to
prepare his five year old son for the most competitive nursery
school in New York City.
cmd2113@columbia.edu
917-514-7884
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