Professor Gustavo Mercado’s book, “The Filmmaker’s Eye: Learning and Breaking the Rules of Cinematic Composition” was recently translated into Simplified and Traditional Chinese, for distribution in Mainland China and Taiwan. Also, it was just announced that Tokyo-based publishing house Born Digital Inc. acquired the Japanese translation rights, marking the 8th language The Filmmaker’s Eye has been translated into and joining the Turkish, Polish, French, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.
Award-winning filmmaker and professor at Hunter College, Tami Gold, will deliver the closing keynote address at the Global Media Ethics Conference on Saturday, March 16th at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The conference is a two-day event featuring filmmakers, artists, scholars, journalists and media professionals. Participants will discuss central ethical issues of privacy, surveillance, minority representation and civic responsibility in a diverse and global new media environment.