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IMA alumna Sasha Wortzel’s film featured on MSNBC and The New Yorker

Happy Birthday Marsha graphicIMA alumna Sasha Wortzel’s film, Happy Birthday, Marsha!, is featured on MSNBC’s show So POPular!. Host Janet Mock speaks with filmmakers Sasha Wortzel and Reina Gossett about their new short film Happy Birthday, Marsha! telling the story of trans activists and icons Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall riots.

Watch the interview here

Also featured in The New Yorker, and DAZED.

F&M alumna Jenn Gomez wins award at Milan IFF

Jenn Gomez with an awardFilm & Media alumna Jenn Gomez won Best Short Film at Milan International Film Festival 2015. She and friend Anna Frei were producers with Gene Pope as Executive Producer on their film Hand Over Hand.

Synopsis:

A heartwarming story about an ‘old hippy’ professor and his two very different grown daughters on vacation trying to piece together their fractured family.

While on vacation at a modest but breathtaking lakeside Don, Megan and Jeanie confront the comedy and tragedy of their family three months after the death of their life-long anchor, Don’s wife, who kept the family running.
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