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IMA Alumna Laurie Sumie Filiak wins “Best Documentary” at CUNY Festival

2010 IMA Graduate Laurie Sumie Filiak’s thesis film “Struggle for Existence” has won Best Documentary award at the CUNY Asian American Film Festival. The film combines Laurie’s elegant animation and graphics with documentary material to spin a compelling story of a Hawaiian finch on the verge of extinction. Winning qualifies the film for screening the Asian American International Film Festival in July as part of a CUNY Shorts program.

Sunday, July 18, 2010
1PM, at Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street, Manhattan
Q&A to follow

Tickets:
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/shorts/cuny-shorts

Film & Media Alumna Natalya’s short nominated

Film & Media alumna Natalya Serebrennikova has a short nominated as one of three finalists for this week’s Reel 13. Her short, titled “Cicada”, has earned her an NBR Student Grant award and third place at CUFF this year. The winner with the most votes will be broadcast Saturday, June 19th along with two feature
films. Voting ends this Wednesday at 5PM. To vote, and for more information, go to the link.

Vote | REEL 13
http://www.thirteen.org