Congrats to IMA alum Alvin Seenauth – winner of the prestigious 2026 National Board of Review Student Grant for his thesis film – The Knock That Never Leaves.

About the film:
Loving father, husband, and small business owner Peter Asan built a life of fulfillment in New York — until immigration agents arrived at his home in 2021. An over-40-year-old criminal conviction, stemming from a coerced plea deal in 1989, reemerged and threatened to separate him from his wife Catalina and their three children. Through an intimate, day-in-the-life portrait, The Knock That Never Leaves follows Peter as he navigates the delicate space between ordinary routine and extraordinary unpredictability.

Prof. and IMA alum Betty Yu’s art and photography book Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience (published by Daylight Books) is being exhibited at International Center of Photography Museum’s Photobooks USA 2000-25.

Exhibition: June 11-Sept. 28, 2026
Location: 84 Ludlow St., NYC

FM Journalism major Ana Agudelo’s article “Mapping the Unsung History of Puerto Rican Resistance” is in The Nation about Radical Atmospheres. Radical Atmospheres is an audio AR app that brings the history of East Harlem’s radical activism out of the archive and onto the street.