The duPont-Columbia Awards regularly host events featuring both past Award winners, and as well as a regular documentary film series called Film Fridays, organized in collaboration with Columbia Journalism School's Documentary Program.
The 2021 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards are open for entries. Deadline is July 1.
A real life political thriller about an intrepid investigative journalist in Montana untangling the complex web of contemporary campaign finance.
A dedicated principal, a struggling school, and a message of hard work and hope.
Go behind the scenes of four insurgent campaigns in this award-winning documentary featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Go beyond the propaganda and explore the impact of 35 years of China’s One-Child Policy.
The untold story about New York’s greatest storytellers.
This Is Home is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. With only eight months of help from the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient, they must forge ahead to rebuild their lives in a new home: Baltimore, Maryland. When the newly imposed travel ban adds further complications, their resilience is put to the test. Through humor and heartbreak, this universal story illuminates what it’s like to start over.
Join us Friday, March 8th at 6:30 PM for the screening of “The Interpreters”, a documentary that sheds light on the life of over 50,000 interpreters who helped protect U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With deep compassion and an elegant eye, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach is a fly on the wall in the fast-paced world of this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of her Yazidi people in Northern Iraq and escaped slavery at the hands of ISIS. Don’t miss this gorgeous, aching, inspiring film about the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner. Q & A afterwards with filmmaker Alexandria Bombach.
