Year: 2018

Crime + Punishment screening with director Stephen Maing

crime punishment sliderThe Department of Film & Media is delighted to welcome filmmaker Stephen Maing to Hunter College, to screen his extraordinary new documentary Crime + Punishment.

WHERE: Lang Auditorium, Hunter College North 4th Fl. 
(entrance at 69th Street between Park & Lexington)
WHEN: Weds., Nov. 7 | 6-9PM
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The film follows the NYPD12, a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops, as they break the silence and speak out against an illegal “quota system” that continues to dictate policy in their precincts. The film exposes the harmful policing practices that have plagued precincts and disproportionately affected poor communities of color in New York City for decades. Stephen Maing is an Emmy-nominated Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Read More

Prof. Larry Shore’s film screening

rfk film posterProf. Larry Shore will be screening his film RFK In The Land of Apartheid followed by a discussion.

Nov. 1, 2018 | 5:45 p.m.
Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater
American University, Washington, D.C.

Featuring never before seen archival footage, and interviews in South Africa and the United States,filmmaker Larry Shore tells the little-known story of Senator Robert Kennedy’s influential June 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of apartheid.
Opening remarks will be made by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy’s eldest daughter.