MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE
Directed by Tami Gold and Pam Sporn
Produced by Gisely Colón López, Tami Gold, Pam Sporn
Edited by Sonia González-Martínez and Pam Sporn
Featuring music by Arturo O’Farrill and Oscar Hernández
Nov. 19 | 7-9PM online | Register & more info
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960’s. The documentary is a mosaic of voices, film footage and photographs taken by student activists. This important story highlights the powerful alliance Puerto Rican, African American and other progressive students and faculty forged that changed the face of higher education with the founding of one of the first Puerto Rican Studies departments in the nation.
Year: 2020
Emerging Media Meeting for Students Interested in the Major
Wed., Nov 18 | 1:10-2PM
Join faculty from the Department of Film & Media Studies, Emerging Media major to learn about the curriculum and ask questions that you may have about classes. The curriculum may be found on the Media Studies major page.
Following an overview of the major, the president of the student club – ESports Game Design Collective will be discussing the student organized collective – what they do, how they meet and how you can join. Following the presentations, faculty will field questions that you may have concerning the curriculum.
IMA alumna Betty Yu’s work is featured in The New York Times
IMA alumna Betty Yu’s work at the Queens Museum is featured in The New York Times. Her collage, “Speculating Flushing” (2020), a component of combined media installation “Resistance in Progress” (2020) is on view until Jan. 17th. Her project is part of a group show called, After the Plaster Foundation, or, “Where can we live?”.