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.
Category Archives: Program in Culture & Media
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!
Save the Date: Docs on the Edge!
Docs on the Edge will return to NYU on May 12 at 6pm! Presented by the departments of Anthropology and Cinema Studies, this student film event showcases documentaries produced by graduate students in the Program in Culture and Media.
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.
Click here for more info about the event.
Click here to register for the event.
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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Living Quechua – Official Launch Party
Join Culture & Media alumna Christi Mladic Janney this Wednesday 2/4 at the OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY for her C&M doc Living Quechua!
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 8:00pm [doors open at 7:30pm]
Meridian 23, 161 W. 23rd St, NYC 10011
TICKETS $10 ~ at door and online
LIVE CONCERT BY INKARAYKU
FREE RAFFLE WITH PRIZES
DANCE PARTY WITH KICHWA HATARI
Living Quechua (Runasimiwan Kawsay) is a short documentary film that had its World Premiere at the 38th Margaret Mead Film Festival in late 2014. The film explores the Quechua-speaking community of NYC, and focuses on one woman’s efforts to keep her language alive.
Inkarayku is a contemporary Andean music band that plays traditional musical forms from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, with a New York edge.
Kichwa Hatari is a community radio program in NYC that blends radio, community organizing, and cultural / linguistic empowerment.
