Join us for our annual DOCS ON THE EDGE screening!
A Student Documentary Showcase from the 2013-2014 Graduate Video Production Seminar
Presented by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Cinema Studies, and the Program in Culture and Media at New York University
Friday, May 9 @ 6:00 pm
(doors open at 5:30pm)
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
Theater 200
New York City
NEW DOCUMENTARIES:
Brooklyn Slice
by Anna Green (Cinema Studies)
Pizza is a quintessential, even iconic New York food, and John Minaci Jr. is a quintessential New Yorker. His Italian immigrant father founded Johnny’s Pizza in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in 1968, and John Jr. grew up working at the shop. As customers and family members circulate through the shop, this film paints a portrait of a small, rapidly changing section of Brooklyn.
The Cancer Mirror
by Sophie Tuttleman (Cinema Studies)
After losing her father to Hodgkin’s lymphoma, filmmaker Sophie Tuttleman reflects on her mother’s battle with terminal brain cancer. The Cancer Mirror explores one daughter’s experience navigating her mother’s illness while coming to terms with the possibility of losing a second parent to cancer.
Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (Neither Here, Nor There)
by Gabriela Bortolamedi (Anthropology)
An undocumented young woman from Mexico navigates the challenges of college as her parents struggle to make ends meet and support her in the pursuit of her dreams.
A Correspondence
by Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi (Anthropology)
A Correspondence film brings to life the year-long correspondence between the filmmaker’s grandparents during the post-war years. Constructed through photographs, letters, telegrams and archival footage from the era, their story is one of love across distance and the search for a partner during troubled times.
Cast in India
by Natasha Suresh Raheja (Anthropology)
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City.
Living Quechua
by Christine Mladic Janney (Anthropology)
Elva Ambía’s first language is Quechua — a language indigenous to South America. But when she left her town in Peru as a young woman to find work in the United States, speaking Spanish and English became critical for her to survive. Now in her seventies, Elva decides to help cultivate a Quechua-speaking community in New York City. Living Quechua follows Elva through the challenges and successes of trying to keep Quechua alive.
The Regulars
by Zoe Graham (Cinema Studies)
The Manhattan Three Decker diner has been a favorite neighborhood eatery for sixty years. One of the few remaining diners in Greenpoint, every day it draws in old-timers, families and Polish locals, as well as a recent influx of hipsters. JoAnn, a middle-aged waitress who has lived in Greenpoint all her life, shares her stories about family and community as she keeps her regulars smiling, fed and in check!
Food for the Gods
by Scott Alves Barton (Food Studies)
Sacred leaves and food are essential to many Afro-Brazilian religious practices. This film observes rituals dedicated to the deity, Ossain, ‘King of the trees/sacred leaves.’ Ossain, a medicinal earth god, is one of the most significant deities in a pantheon of more than four hundred and fifty gods and goddesses.
Player 1, Player 2: Gamers in Love
by Lina M. De Jesús Golderos (Cinema Studies)
Couples grow closer to each other through their shared passion for video and computer games. Through humor and a competitive spirit, these gamer couples learn to navigate not only the games they play together, but also their relationships.
*a short intermission will follow the fifth film*