Congratulations to C&M alumna Camilla Nielsson! Her new documentary DEMOCRATS will make its North American premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition!
About DEMOCRATS: In the wake of Robert Mugabe’s highly criticized 2008 presidential win, Zimbabwe’s first constitutional committee was created in an effort to transition the country away from its authoritarian leadership. With unprecedented access to the two political rivals overseeing the committee, this riveting, firsthand account of a country’s fraught first steps towards democracy plays at once like an intimate political thriller and unlikely buddy film.
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A Kiss for Gabriela at the Patois Film Festival
Congratulations to C&M alumna Laura Murray! Her 2011 Culture & Media film is still going strong on the film festival circuit! On the evening of Friday March 20, 2015 Um Beijo para Gabriela (A Kiss for Gabriela) will be included as part of program of sex worker rights films at Patois: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. The Patois Film Festival is dedicated to nurturing the New Orleans human rights community, supporting the work of local organizers and organizations involved in these struggles, and providing a forum for artistic expression of local and international issues.
Living Quechua to screen at San Diego Latino Film Festival
Congrats to Christine Mladic Janney! Her C&M film Living Quechua will screen at the 2015 San Diego Latino Film Festival in March! Stay tuned for details!
The Cancer Mirror screens at SDJFF
Congratulations to Culture & Media alumna Sophie Tuttleman. Her C&M film The Cancer Mirror screened this month at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival!
Living Quechua NYWIFT screening
Congratulations to Culture & Media alumna Christi Mladic Janney! Her C&M film Living Quechua will screen next Friday 2/27 at the New York Women in Film & Television event “Immigrant Women Screening Series: Activism.” The series will present the works of women immigrant and first-generation American filmmakers and focus on the immigrant experience within the five boroughs of New York City.
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Bortolamedi’s C&M film picked up for distribution by Women Make Movies
Congratulations to Culture & Media alumna Gabriela Bortolamedi! Her C&M documentary Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (Neither Here, Nor There) has been picked up for distribution by Women Make Movies.
Ni Aquí, Ni Allá illuminates the challenges facing undocumented college students and their families around the country.
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Cast in India screens at Yale
Culture & Media alumna Natasha Raheja’s C&M film Cast in India screens today at “EYE CANDY,” the Yale Graduate Film Conference! The film will screen during the 1:30-3:15 PM session titled “Border Crossings.”
More Than a Face in the Crowd now on IndieFlix!
Congratulations to C&M alumna Sami Chan! Her Culture & Media doc More Than a Face in the Crowd is now streaming on IndieFlix! Founded by filmmakers, IndieFlix curates films from worldwide film festivals to make sure indies have an audience. Join IndieFlix today to watch Sami’s film…and many others!
https://indieflix.com/indie-films/more-than-a-face-in-the-crowd-41970/
THE HAND THAT FEEDS to screen in NYC – Tuesday 2/3
Catch a screening of the award-winning feature-length documentary The Hand That Feeds by Robin Blotnick and C&M alumna Rachel Lears tomorrow night at the IFC Theater in NYC! Their film is screening as the opening night film for this season’s Stranger Than Fiction documentary film series! Q&A w/ directors Lears & Blotnick and film subject Mahoma López after the screening!
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Cast in India screening at Alligators in the Sewers Day
Come hear about New York City’s urban legends and catch a screening of Natasha Raheja’s C&M film Cast in India on FEB 6 at 7PM at Alligators in the Sewers Day, an unofficial annual holiday initiated by the Manhattan Borough Historian to mark the birth of one of New York City’s greatest true urban legends.
Friday, Feb 6th at 7pm
Hunter College, Room HW 714
Registration Required!
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Celebrate Alligators in the Sewers Day, an unofficial annual holiday that Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione initiated four years ago to mark the birth of one of New York City’s greatest true urban legends. It was on that date back in 1935 that a live alligator was found in an East Harlem storm sewer. A detailed article about the discovery was printed in the New York Times the next day.
Join NYC H2O for an afternoon of fun-filled festivities including a screening of the documentary Cast in India about the making of manhole covers. Michael Miscione will recount the 1935 sighting and briefly discuss other great NYC urban legends — some true, some not.