With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
Prof. Buddy Stein and the Neighborhood News featured The Hunts Point Express in The New York Times. Eight reporters from The Hunts Point Express discussed issues in the South Bronx with the borough’s district manager of Community Board 2. The reporters were Hunter College Students who held a news conference with Mr. Salamanca at Hunter with an objective to ferret out stories that will inform, connect with and give a voice to residents who might not otherwise have one.
IMA student Nathan Fitch was featured both in the Huffington Post and the New York Times for The Deadly Cost of Fashion, a documentary which focuses on the most deadliest disaster in Garment industry history: the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh which killed more than 1,100 workers and injured around 2,500.
Prof. Martin Lucas will be screening his film, Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, as part of the Cinema Conservancy screening series. Two screenings events will be held at separate time and places, one on April 27th at The Queens Museum and the second on May 12th at The Bronx Documentary Center. The guests include filmmaker Martin Lucas, historian of American 20th century politics, Kim Phillip-Fein, and activists from Brooklyn’s People’s Firehouse movement that will take part in a discussion after the film’s Queens Museum screening. Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, was also featured in the Movies section of The New Yorker.
Date, Time and Locations:
April 27th at 2PM at The Queens Museum,
Flushing Meadows Park, Queens
May 12th at 7:30PM at The Bronx Documentary Center,
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx