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F&M alumna Jenn Gomez wins award at Milan IFF

Jenn Gomez with an awardFilm & Media alumna Jenn Gomez won Best Short Film at Milan International Film Festival 2015. She and friend Anna Frei were producers with Gene Pope as Executive Producer on their film Hand Over Hand.

Synopsis:

A heartwarming story about an ‘old hippy’ professor and his two very different grown daughters on vacation trying to piece together their fractured family.

While on vacation at a modest but breathtaking lakeside Don, Megan and Jeanie confront the comedy and tragedy of their family three months after the death of their life-long anchor, Don’s wife, who kept the family running.
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Chantal Akerman’s passing

It is with sorrow we post here the news of Chantal Akerman’s passing. In 2012 Akerman visited Hunter College for a Master class and a discussion around La Captive, and her fierce directness as well as her films deeply marked our students as it has over the years many filmmakers–Gus Van Sant, Apichatpong Weerasathakul, Claire Denis and many others– who saw it also before they became filmmakers. Her films–documentary fiction comedies and trageides left a deep imprint, as she pushed you to sense time and the everyday differently. What else can we ask from an artist? She will be missed.

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