IMA alumna Pam Sporn’s film Detroit 48202 will be screening followed by Q&A:
Dec. 17th | 7PM
Brooklynese
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
60 Furman Street
Pam Sporn is a Bronx based documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist. She loves listening to people tell stories about standing up to injustice in their own unique, subtle, and not so subtle, ways. A pioneer in bringing social issue documentary making into NYC high schools in the 1980s and 1990s, Pam substantively contributed to the growth of the youth media movement. Pam’s work includes the documentaries Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories, With A Stroke of the Chaveta, Remembering the Mamoncillo Tree, andDisobeying Orders: GI Resistance to the Vietnam War. Pam has received numerous grants and awards including: JustFilms/Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, CUNY Caribbean Exchange, and the Bronx Council on the Arts.