Congrats to IMA alum Emily Collins & Might Oak team on winning an Emmy for Outstanding Motion Design for the film Octopus!  Emily is a founding partner of Mighty Oak, a woman-and-queer-owned animation studio based in New York City. 

Friday, Oct. 24^th 8PM – Emerging Media Prof. Andrew Demirjian will be screening and reading his video and computational poetry at the Poetry Project. The program includes playwright Ricardo Bracho, UPenn Abrams Artist in Residence, and is part of their interdisciplinary Poetry Series, at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St. (at 2nd Ave.)

Film screening of short narrative film, 
Where Do Black Men Live? (40min) 
and discussion with the writers and director. 
Fri., Oct. 10 | 6-8:30PM | Lang Auditorium (HN 4th floor)
Free and open to the public
RSVP required:  https://bit.ly/WDBML_film
Entrance at 69th Street between Lexington and Park Aves.

About the film:
Where Do Black Men Live? is a narrative short film that uses a verbatim theatre style – the script is composed directly from the real words of Black men interviewed about their housing experiences. Co-directed by Corinne Spencer, Joy Wrolson, Gift Tapiwa. Written by Stephanie Guirand, Gift Tapiwa, Joy Wrolson.

Directed + Edited by Corinne Spencer (Meerkat Media Collective) 
Cinematography by IMA alum + professor Sean Hanley
Camera Tech work by F&M alum Jules Rico 
Production Assisting and Third Camera by IMA students, Zoha Javaid Akhter 
and Santiago Mendez

Filmed in the Hunter Black Box Theater (543 HN) in February 2025