Author: Navin

Sarah Friedland (IMA grad student) has been named one of ten filmmakers to watch in 2009 by the Independent magazine.

Sarah Friedland got her filmmaking education from a combination of academic study and on-the-set training, working as an editor on films like the award-winning Free to Fly US/Cuba Link and the Emmy-nominated film The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo. Friedland dipped her toe into the directing pool with her experimental film Breath on the Mirror in 2005, which she made under residency at the Musée de Pont-Aven in Pont-Aven, France. Within the next two years, she was awarded three grants from the Paul Newman Foundation, the William Prusoff Foundation and the Jerome Foundation for her documentary Thing With No Name, which follows two HIV positive women in South Africa who sought access to treatment with an antiretroviral drug therapy. The film was selected to screen at several prominent festivals including Woodstock, Los Angeles and the London Independent. Friedland is in the midst of working on her second documentary set for completion in 2009 titled Subprimed, which provides a glimpse into the national foreclosure crisis by exploring a foreclosure epidemic in East New York and the consequences it has on the individual victims and the community as a whole.

Learn more about Subprimed and Sarah Friedland at http://sarahfriedland.com/

-Nikki Chase
Link to Article http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/2009/01/tentowatch

SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING OF “SLEEP DEALER,” ALEX RIVERA’S AWARD-WINNING FILM

SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING OF “SLEEP DEALER,” ALEX RIVERA’S AWARD-WINNING FILM

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
7 PM

Lang Recital Hall

North Building, N424


The Department of Film and Media Studies is proud to present Alex Rivera’s award-winning film, followed by a Q & A session with the director, a New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker. Rivera’s work, which addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor, has also been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues.Admission to the screening is free and open to the Hunter community, and it is part of a three-day intensive workshop conducted by Rivera at Hunter, where students will explore alternative strategies for the creation and development of story concepts. The screening and workshop were made possible by a grant from the Winston Foundation.

Poster (PDF)

Next Gen NYC Features Hunter Students

Four Hunter student films were selected for the NEXT GEN NYC showcase at the Independent Filmmakers Market in New York this September. This is a highly competitive showcase, where students’ films from across CUNY were selected.

Film industry and filmmakers from across the country are given the opportunity to network at this market. The Hunter filmmakers represented both graduate and undergraduate students, as well as documentary and narrative.

The work showcased:

FIELD GUIDE TO A NEW ENGLAND LIFE
Dir. Kalim Armstrong
Documentary, 12mins

FREMENTE
Dir. Jenny Byrne
Narrative, 8mins

STRAYS
Dir. Laura Melillo
Narrative, 19mins

STREET SUPREME
Dir. Micah Bochart
Documentary, 10mins