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  • Talia Lugacy

    Assistant Professor of Screen Studies

    Email
    lugacyt@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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    Talia Lugacy

    Profile

    Talia Lugacy is a narrative independent director, writer and actor. Her current feature film THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY is being released by Warner Media HBO and won the Audience Award at San Francisco Indie Fest, Woods Hole FF, Indie Street, and won Best Narrative Feature at Atlanta Underground, as well as the NYWIFT award for Best Female Director at its NYC premiere, the Urbanworld Film Festival. The film is a hybrid narrative about combat trauma and is a collaboration with veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars. Her previous feature Descent premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival prior to a theatrical release, starred Rosario Dawson and was a New York Times Critics Pick.

    Current Courses

    Dir. Narrative: Feature Prod.
    LCST 3150, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Dir. Narrative: Feature Prod.
    LCST 3150, Spring 2025

    Independent Senior Project
    LCST 4990, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Spring 2025, Summer 2025

    Screen Writing
    LCST 3170, Spring 2025

    Senior Seminar: Screen
    LCST 4900, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Directing
    LCST 3150, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Spring 2024, Summer 2024

    Screen Writing
    LCST 3170, Spring 2024

    Senior Seminar: Screen
    LCST 4900, Spring 2024

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