Film & Media Fall Showcase 
Featuring student work in: Narrative Films, Documentaries, Animations, Video Games, Creative Websites, Web Apps and Graphic Novel.

Oct. 27 | Lang Hall | 6:30-9PM
RSVP (Open to the Public):
https://fm-fallfestival26-oct27.eventbrite.com

The Department of Film and Media Studies presents
Sainsbury Visiting Artist: Louis Massiah

Tuesday, October 13:
Screening: TCB: Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
6-9PM | Lang Auditorium (HN 424)
6PM: Light refreshments
6:30PM: Screening

RSVP (Open to the Public):
https://fm-tcb.eventbrite.com

Join us for a screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a documentary biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker. With humor and deep insight, Bambara inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. 

Followed by a Q&A with Director Louis Massiah 

Wednesday, October 14:
Hidden Histories: Workshop on Participatory Community Media
12-1:30PM | TV Studio (HN 436)

RSVP (Open to Hunter students & alumni only):
https://fm-louis-massiah.eventbrite.com

Filmmaker Louis Massiah will show excerpts from 50 years of experiments in participatory community media – a unique form of documentary produced with communities and subjects. These works emerge out of places confronting urgent issues, and involve collaboration, negotiation, and a shared vision, allowing communities to render their own analysis of the world. Media becomes a tool for essential democratic discourse, change, and a way to confront power. 

Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. 

Co-Sponsored by the Hunter College departments of Art and Art History, Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, English and Women and Gender Studies.

Hunter College students took their studies abroad this summer, traveling to London with Journalism Program Director Sissel McCarthy.

Students learned how to become more critical consumers of news while doing a deep dive into the U.K. news industry. 

As part of their team project, they visited six major news organizations, including the BBC, The Independent, PA Media and Sky News.

Each team researched the history and ownership of one news outlet and evaluated its stories for accuracy and partisan leaning. They then presented their findings to the class, putting their newly acquired news literacy skills into action.