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Screenings & Netherlands Media Students to Take 11-Day Program at Hunter

View student work from the 11-day program.

Netherlands Media Students to Take 11-Day Program at Hunter

Sixteen students from a top-ranked university in the Netherlands will hone their skills in media arts during an 11-day program at Hunter sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies. They will be led by a Hunter graduate who now teaches in the Netherlands.

The 16, who will be at Hunter from February 14-February 24, are from Hogeschool Utrecht—the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. All are students of Brian Maston, who earned a Hunter bachelor’s in Film and is now a senior lecturer in Film and Media studies, and Dutch colleague/TV producer John Driedonks. This is the second year Maston has brought a group of Hogeschool students to Hunter.

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IMA Students Megan Sperry & Daniel Phelps’ documentary film

Help make a donation to support co-producers: Megan Sperry, Daniel Phelps and Brian Paul’s documentary film project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedominoeffect/the-domino-effect
They have been able to produce this movie with their own money up until this point, but now they need support so they can continue to edit the film. They’ve recently launched a Kickstarter campaign with a goal to raise $10,000.00 in 45 days.

For Immediate Release:

Documentary film explores New York City’s Uniform Land Use Process (ULURP) by using the former Domino Sugar site in Brooklyn as a case study. What emerges is a divided community and a broken development process.


New York, NY – January 25th, 2011
Do you have $1 million to buy a one bedroom condo in Williamsburg Brooklyn? Do you feel threatened by the rising cost of living in your community? Are you sick of staring at stalled construction sites in your neighborhood? Three filmmakers consider New York City mega-development within the current housing market in a film called The Domino Effect.
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Prof. Carolyn Strachan’s film: TWO LAWS

TWO LAWS. From the Borroloola Aboriginal Community with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini.


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A watershed in ethnographic cinema, this unique film was conceived by the Nomination for Best Documentary Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory of Australia to tell the story of their
struggle to live under TWO LAWS. The first law is their own 40,000 year-oldAboriginal law, and the second, the brutally imposed law of European settlement.

With sensual visuals and dream-like pacing, the film dramatically engages the Aboriginal people’s sense of time, their oral history traditions, their rules of kinship and their songlines to reveal their law and custom and to record their battle to reclaim traditional lands. They invite us to sit down on the ground with them and witness their plans for a film that becomes—before our eyes—a profound story of resistance. TWO LAWS presents an entirely different logic for documenting history and culture.

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