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Larry Shore & Tami Gold’s film RFK In the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope was screened at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston MA, January 21st

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, said a few words after the film. This was followed by a panel discussion consisting of Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and one of RFK’s student hosts while he was in South Africa; Albertina Luthuli, Chief Albert Luthuli’s daughter and a current member of the South African Parliament and Hunter’s Larry Shore.

details: http://www.rfksafilm.org/

Student Filmmakers, Not Ceasing or Desisting

Times columnist Jim Dwyer writes today about a documentary that began in a Hunter Integrated Media Arts class last year and the efforts of a developer to suppress it. Sounds like student film makers Sarah Friedland, Kahil Shkymba and Joy Nayo Simmons did a great job.

[See article]