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Professor Shanti Thakur Wins Best Narrative Film Award

Professor Shanti Thakur has won the Best Narrative Film Award at the 60th Columbus International Film Festival
for her short film Red Tulips, A Story About Forgetting, which won over both short and feature length narrative films.

Red Tulips is currently on the festival circuit. Other screenings include: Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Athens International FIlm Festival.

Red Tulips is about a magical world where memory lasts only a few hours. James meets his wife and daughter for the first time, every day. The film was partially funded by a PSC-CUNY Research Award, the George N. Shuster Fellowship and the President’s Fund for Faculty Advancement.

IMA/MFA Fall Thesis Exhibition

The Fall 2012 IMA/MFA Thesis Exhibition is hosted by the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA and features screenings from:

Sarah Enid Hagey director of Other Voices
Tamara Gubernat director of Open Process
Esy Casey director of Jeepney

The screening will take place on December 15th at 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM. It will be held at the Hunter College Lang Theater (Hunter North – 4th Floor)

EYEspeak screening

Monday December 3rd, 2012
Hunter College North Building (entrance on 68th and Lexington)
** new location: Room 543 **
8:00 PM

Sandy threatens NYC grassroots radio!

Join us for a screening of Radio Unnameable and discussion to learn more about why and how to support WBAI and WFMU.

When Sandy hit it trapped seven of WBAI’s staff in studios on the 11th story of a building with seawater up to the second floor. Today, the building’s wiring is still unusable, and the station’s facing a second disaster: because the storm knocked WBAI off the air in the middle of a fund drive, and the station has no way to resume fundraising, it faces the prospect of laying off its entire staff and going dark for good.

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