The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro) and the Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism in the Department of Film and Media Studies have launched the Blanca Vázquez Erazo Social Justice Scholarship Award ($1,500). It will be awarded to a Hunter College student who best exemplifies Blanca’s unwavering commitment to social justice, peace, and freedom.

Application: https://forms.gle/npY5S7t6TF6v2fmX8
Must be enrolled in Hunter College by the time of the award (Fall term). Open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors.

Democracy and Development:
Screening of Emergent City

Sept. 30 | 5:30PM | Roosevelt House
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Panelists: Prof. & Film & Media Chair Kelly Anderson & Prof. Betty Yu

Emergent City, a film by Prof. Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg.  Called “the best NYC documentary in a decade” by Hell Gate, Emergent City follows the decade-long redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Industry City. A microcosm of American democracy, this meticulously-crafted observational film offers a front row seat to the public and private spaces where the city is shaped. more info…

TWN (Third World Newsreel) presents the Christine Choy Retrospective: ten preserved and digitized films from a pioneering Asian American documentarian whose camera tracked labor, incarceration, immigration, and liberation for half a century. Oscar-nominated for “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and honored in the Library of Congress, Choy filmed the stories the record left out. This fall, they return to the screen:

September 9-13 at Anthology Film Archives
September 13-16 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema
more info…