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Did you know… you can support the Film and Media department on Hunter’s first Giving Day? Even better: Any gift you make from today until April 29 will be doubled up to $100,000. Your gift will help Film and Media students access careers in film and media by providing free technical and professional development workshops to help them network and access opportunities. An investment in Film and Media is an investment in every Hunter student. Help us Bridge the Future and give students the tools to write their own story. 

Capturing Change: A Conversation on Photojournalism and Storytelling
Apr. 14 | 6-8PM | Roosevelt House
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Photographer Natalie Keyssar & Prof. Seyma Bayram discuss photojournalism, migration, and youth culture. Reception to follow.

Join Pulitzer Center grantee and photographer Natalie Keyssar and Professor Seyma Bayram, a journalist and assistant professor of journalism at Hunter College, for a conversation exploring the power of photojournalism to document political upheaval, migration, and youth culture. Through her work, Keyssar captures the personal and often unseen impacts of conflict and social change across the globe.

The event will begin with a presentation of Keyssar’s photography, followed by a conversation with Bayram and an audience Q&A.

A reception will follow the talk. RSVP is required.

Sharlene Bamboat 
Film screening followed by Q&A
April 30 | 6-7:30PM | TV Studio (HN 436)

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(Entrance at 69th St between Lexington & Park Ave., bring ID)

The Department of Film and Media Studies, the Sainsbury Initiative and the LGBT Policy Center present Sharlene Bamboat screenings & discussion. 

Please join us for a screening of internationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist Sharlene Bamboat’s short films. We will be showing the films Video Home System and 25 Years Swayed Between Our Teeth. A Q&A will follow the screenings. Sharlene Bamboat is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist working primarily in non-fiction moving image. Her practice explores histories of colonialism, globalization, pop-culture, and desire through poetics, abstraction, and collaboration.