FM student Cristian Zumba will screen his short doc Mis Banderas on Nov. 13th at the Museum of the City of New York – as part of the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival (IPRHFF).

Retired Prof. Mick Hurbis-Cherrier’s new book Mastering Screenplay Form & Style has recently been published by Routledge Press (Taylor & Francis).

Mastering Screenplay Form and Style shows you how professional screenwriters actually write scripts. This reference manual explores all aspects of the form, from essential format requirements to the expressive, literary qualities of screenplay language. Organized in three parts, this book systematically reveals the full essence of the screenwriter’s craft.

• The Ground Rules: A deep dive into the fundamental rhetorical concepts for dramatizing a story for the screen; the craft and style concepts that underpin everything working screenwriters use.
  
  
• The Industry Standards: A scrupulous overview of the professional norms for script formatting and language, including the function and correct use of the six screenplay elements for common, advanced, and challenging narrative situations. This section also includes methods for creating indelible character introductions and managing story and screen time on the page.
  
  
• Expressive Screenwriting: Shows how precise visual writing can infuse your scripts with cinematic energy, dramatic tone, POV, and narrative flow. This section also explores when, why, and how screenwriters bend and even break screenwriting conventions for dramatic purpose.

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