Congratulations to Pegi Vail, associate director of the Center for Media Culture & History (and a C&M alumna)! Her film Gringo Trails will make its NYC theatrical debut from September 4-11 at Cinema Village!
Catch these exciting Q&As after the 7pm screenings:
Thurs Sept 4th: Costas Christ (Nat Geo Traveler), Peter Greenberg (CBS)
Friday 5th: Seth Kugel (NY Times Frugal Traveler), La Francis Hui (Asia Society)
Sat 6th: George Green (The Moth), Connelly LaMar (VICE video producer)
Watch the trailer for the film HERE and
get your tickets today!

Congratulations to C&M alumna Elise Andaya. Her book, “Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era,” is out now from Rutgers University Press.

Congratulations to C&M alumni Bing Wang! The feature documentary that he associate produced, 9 MAN, will be having its world premiere in April (in Boston at IFFB) and its West Coast premiere in May (in L.A. at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)! The film is about a streetball battle in the heart of Chinatown.

Congratulations to C&M alumna Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick! Their feature documentary The Hand That Feeds just won the audience award at the 2014 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival! Hooray!!!

Congratulations to C&M Alumna Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick! Their film The Hand That Feeds will have its World Premiere at the prestigious Full Frame Film Festival in April!

Culture & Media Alumna Wazhmah Osman’s moving documentary Postcards from Tora Bora screens in NYC on Saturday, April 26th at the Workshop on Infrastructures of Empire: Mediated Activism and (Counter) Revolutions. Osman’s film, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, is a personal documentary that shows the impact of three decades of war in Afghanistan from the point of view of people who have lived through it.