Congratulations to C&M alumna Lina De Jesús. The documentary she produced in the Culture & Media Program has been accepted to the 2015 Rincon International Film Festival Program. Rincon, the largest film festival in Puerto Rico, will screen Lina’s film Player 1, Player 2: Gamers in Love on Wednesday, April 15th.

Check out C&M alumna Natasha Raheja on Brian Lehrer’s weekly television show talking about her C&M film Cast in India! (Natasha’s segment starts around 37:45).

Congratulations to C&M alumna Sophie Tuttleman! The documentary she produced while a student here in the Culture & Media Program, The Cancer Mirror, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival!

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.

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.

Congratulations to Culture & Media alumna Sophie Tuttleman. Her C&M film The Cancer Mirror screened this month at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival!

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.”

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!
Click here for tickets.

Congratulations to C&M alumna Amalia Córdova. Amalia has been selected as an advisor to the Berlinale Film Festival’s upcoming showcase on Indigenous films from Latin America, called NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema! With NATIVe, the Berlinale aims to show its appreciation of Indigenous cinema and demonstrate its relevance beyond regional, political and cultural boundaries.
The full program can be seen here.