Editor Kathryn Barnier, filmmaker and IMA alum Ryan Joseph and IMA professor Kelly Anderson are sharing their film, Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square this weekend at the Festival Internacional de cine documental Santiago Álvarez in Cuba!

The film won Best Director at the Santiago Alvarez Festival, and got a special award for Journalistic Excellence from Radio Havana Cuba.

About the film:

In 1959 New York City announced a “slum clearance plan” by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Screening of Stripped For Parts with Director
March 26 | 2-4:30PM
HN 424 Lang

Screening of new film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink, about one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. 

Post-Screening discussion with Rick Goldsmith, filmmaker, moderated by Sissel McCarthy, Program Head, Journalism.

Photo credit: Ray Rahim

Check out our student project of the month: How to Come Out by Conor McGrath from LGBTQ Class Creative Zines.

The class is designed to see the connections between homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism, sexism and the struggle for global human rights.