Tag: documentary

EPIC NATIONAL PARKS SERIES

press release source: http://www.thirteen.org/localparks

http://www.thirteen.org/blog/programs/the-national-parks-americas-best-idea/166/

Shot primarily by three CUNY students, Daniel Cowen, from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter, Andres Otero, from CUNY Hunter, and Davi Santos, from Macaulay Honors College at Lehman, THIRTEEN’s National Parks: New Yorkers’ Memories profiles New Yorkers’ Life-Changing Adventure of America’s National Parks. This is a unique collaboration with film students seeking a real-life, hands-on experience in television production. This is one of the first on-air and online projects shot entirely by students. Filmed By CUNY Students, Television And Web Content Profiles New Yorkers’ Life-Changing Adventures of America’s National Parks
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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]

Sarah Friedland (IMA grad student) has been named one of ten filmmakers to watch in 2009 by the Independent magazine.

Sarah Friedland got her filmmaking education from a combination of academic study and on-the-set training, working as an editor on films like the award-winning Free to Fly US/Cuba Link and the Emmy-nominated film The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo. Friedland dipped her toe into the directing pool with her experimental film Breath on the Mirror in 2005, which she made under residency at the Musée de Pont-Aven in Pont-Aven, France. Within the next two years, she was awarded three grants from the Paul Newman Foundation, the William Prusoff Foundation and the Jerome Foundation for her documentary Thing With No Name, which follows two HIV positive women in South Africa who sought access to treatment with an antiretroviral drug therapy. The film was selected to screen at several prominent festivals including Woodstock, Los Angeles and the London Independent. Friedland is in the midst of working on her second documentary set for completion in 2009 titled Subprimed, which provides a glimpse into the national foreclosure crisis by exploring a foreclosure epidemic in East New York and the consequences it has on the individual victims and the community as a whole.

Learn more about Subprimed and Sarah Friedland at http://sarahfriedland.com/

-Nikki Chase
Link to Article http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/2009/01/tentowatch

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