Film & Media student Jules Rico was invited to speak on an arts leader panel with Hunter’s Office of the Arts and Boston’s Suffolk University. The panel discussed the importance of the arts and creating art spaces, in limited places like a city. She received a summer internship scholarship from Office of the Arts.  Jules spoke about her internship experience at an outside production company this summer and her current internship in the Film & Media Department with Chief CLT Peter Jackson and how the techtern program has helped her become more confident in her artistic vision.

Please join us for a SCREENING of the Emmy-nominated Showtime documentary series, “The Fourth Estate”, a fly-on-the-wall look inside The New York Times in the Trump era.

WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1-3PM
WHERE: Lang Recital Hall, 424 Hunter North
RSVP: Adam Glenn at ag4291@hunter.cuny.edu

The screening is followed by a PANEL DISCUSSION featuring:
“Fourth Estate” producer Jenny Carchman
New York Times media correspondent Michael Grynbaum

Moderator: Hunter Distinguished Journalism Lecturer A. Adam Glenn

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Prof. Kelly Anderson’s My Brooklyn will be screening at Brooklynese screening series on October 29th.

My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson’s journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that – despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City – is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change. The film’s ultimate question is increasingly relevant on a global scale: who has a right to live in cities and determine their future?
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