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Feb. 20th | 5:30-7:30PM
Lang Auditorium (HN 424)

Join us for a screening of the Academy Award winning documentary film When We were Kings. The film is about Muhammad Ali’s famous 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire, the “Rumble in the Jungle,” and the accompanying concert which included music luminaries James Brown, B.B. King and Miriam Makeba. Prescient commentary from Norman Mailer, Spike Lee and George Plimpton. After the film, you are invited to join in a discussion with Prof. Anthony Browne of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, and Prof. Larry Shore of Film & Media Studies, about the film, Ali, and his impact on America and his times.

This event is sponsored by Hunter College Departments of Film & Media Studies and Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies

Fri., Mar. 8th | 6:30PM | Lang Hall HN424
Overflow tickets are available for the TV studio HN436
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Join us for an evening of indigenous film screenings, Q&A with the filmmakers, a roundtable discussion followed by a reception over refreshments. 

Guest speaker from Cinema Studies, Visual Anthropology, Etnography, Political Sciences will discuss indigenous issues and indigenous cinema in the face of the rise of far-right governments in both Brazil in the Americas more generally.

This event is sponsored by Eyespeak, the IMA, the Film and Media Studies Department and the Hunter Student Engagement Fund.

PUZZLES When Hate Came to Town
by David Pavlosky and Tami Gold
12 minute short

CUNY TV Short Doc Series
Streaming Thurs., Jan. 17th
Interview with filmmakers streaming Thurs., Jan. 24th
Short Docs’ site in the CUNY Academic Commons: https://shortdocs.commons.gc.cuny.edu/​

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