Prof. Tami Gold and IMA alum David Pavlosky’s documentary PUZZLES When Hate Came to Town is about an attack in a LGBTQ night club in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a powerful conversation starter and a deeply human exploration of the roots of hate crimes and the connections between homophobia, intolerance, alienation and access to guns.

The documentary is featured in SouthCoastToday and TrustMovies.

There will be a screening:
PUZZLES When Hate Came to Town
Special Film Screening & Community Discussion
Sunday, June 26th at 7PM
Align Brooklyn – 579 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215 2nd Floor
Free & Open to the Public

IMA students Megan Rossman and Samantha Farinella’s The Beekeeper’s Keeper wins PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW competition! In addition to their grant, they will receive a complimentary one-year NBR membership and their film will be part of their Fall screening at HBO.

The film has also been selected for the G2 Green Earth Film Festival in Venice, California.

Screening: Sunday August 7th @ 11:45 a.m.

Prof. Ricardo Miranda’s work is in CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2016 (Annual New Media Festival Santa Fe) at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe June 9 – 25, 2016. It is curated by Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano featured an ongoing web project titled LOOPS (2014 – ongoing) Ongoing series of brief animated loops with social commentary. Go to http://rmz.nyc/ and click on the animations to see the slowly expanding series.