Jamal Joseph, Columbia University

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Film Professor New York City, New York jj260@columbia.edu Office: (212) 854-2815

Bio/Research

Joseph is a professor and chair of Columbia University's Graduate Film program. He is an alum of the Sundance Directing Lab and the Third World Newsreel Film and Video Workshop. Jamal's directing credits include Drive By: A Love Story and Da Zone for Black Starz, Hip Hop In the Promised Land for ...

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Bio/Research

Joseph is a professor and chair of Columbia University's Graduate Film program. He is an alum of the Sundance Directing Lab and the Third World Newsreel Film and Video Workshop. Jamal's directing credits include Drive By: A Love Story and Da Zone for Black Starz, Hip Hop In the Promised Land for Comedy Central and Hughes Dream Harlem for PBS. His writing credits include Knights of The South Bronx for A & E, The Many Trials of Tammy B for Nickelodeon, and Ali: An American Hero for FOX. Jamal is the Executive Artistic Director of New Heritage Theater and Films and the Co-Founder of Impact Repertory Theater. Jamal is working as the writer/director on a film about his experiences as a youth in the Black Panther party and nine years in prison for Focus features. Jamal has won a Cine Golden Eagle, a National Black program Consortium Prized Pieces Award, a Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award, a new Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a best song Oscar nomination for his work with Impact in the film August Rush.

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