Year: 2013

PUZZLES: When Hate Came to Town – featured on Huffington Post

IMA student David Pavlosky and Prof. Tami Gold’s latest film titled PUZZLES: When Hate Came to Town featured on Huffington Post

“Though the homophobic act took place in 2006, the story is just starting to get told now through the documentary Puzzles: When Hate Came to Town, and it resonates strongly in light of the recent rash of anti-LGBT hate crimes.”
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Congrats to IMA student Seyi Adebanjo

photo of Seyi Adebanjo filmingIMA student Seyi Adebanjo was recently accepted to the City Lore Documentary Institute taking place this summer with a full scholarship. Seyi will be learning multi-media/transmedia folkloric storytelling. Currently, Seyi is working on “Ọya: Something Happened on the Way to West Africa!” – a personal and political story that addresses the effects of memory on a current Òrìṣà cosmology while exploring womyn’s leadership within indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.

Prof. Kelly Anderson’s “My Brooklyn” screening

On Thursday June 6,  My Brooklyn will open the annual conference of the Planners Network. The screening will take place at Hunter College (714HW) at 5pm, and will be followed by a panel discussion with Peter Marcuse (Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University), Rob Robinson (Co-Founder, Take Back the Land Movement and Housing Program Volunteer, National Social and Economic Rights Initiative) and My Brooklyn co-creators Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean.
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