Curtain Up! kn2457@columbia.edu Siggi should help him, but he rebelled. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy's work - vulnerability, insecurity and mortality - spill over into his creative process. Interestingly, it is through rehearsing for this American favorite that these kids come to grapple with their Chinese roots. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. The company was still planning to play it seriously but the show began to go down a different route when the actor playing the voice of the spaceship’s computer accidentally swore at curtain-up.

As the kids gear up for the much-anticipated national debut of Frozen Kids, this film also follows their lives behind the scenes and the challenges that have surfaced. He remembers that his father was supposed to ban his profession from a friend who was a painter.

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Curtain Up! At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. Having made short films and entered film festivals since high school, Hui has developed passions for theater, music and teaching kids. is her filmmaking debut. Wu has produced music for TV shows like “The Avenue of Stars” of China Central Television and “The League of Challengers” of Zhejiang Television. Siggi is in prison during the post-war period. Prior to Columbia Journalism School, she spent five years at Singapore’s second-most-read newspaper, TODAY, covering immigration, crime, law and health. He has been making narrative and documentary shorts since high school, and in writing form covered Asian American identity issues. Hui Tong is a documentary filmmaker and freelance writer from Beijing, China.

is his first feature-length documentary. What can theater help these children uncover about themselves?

Prior to Columbia, he studied history at Cornell University. War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities. Kelly is a multimedia journalist from Singapore drawn particularly to stories on minority communities, education and mental health. Curtain Up!
Kelly Ng is a reporter studying documentary in New York City.

For nine years now, the PS 124 theater club has been the only Asian-American team to compete at the renowned Junior Theater Festival, a gathering of young thespians from across the world. He is a Sundance and MacArthur grantee, an advisor with Columbia School of Journalism, and on the advisory boards of the IDA’S Enterprise Documentary Fund and Firelight Media.