With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
IMA student Kalim Armstrong has been shooting on his thesis film “In the Woods”, a feature documentary about a community living in a homeless encampment and their legal battle against eviction. He has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise a some funds to continue post-production.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/926067031/in-the-woods-a-documentary-about-life-in-tent-city
IMA Students Sasha Wortzel and Cassie Wagler launch a new weekly radio program “Romantic Friendship”. It is a weekly radio show on queer culture, politics, and music broadcasted live out of noho every Sunday evening from 9 to 10pm. Radiohive.org. Check out their podcast.
IMA student Betty Yu is a featured speaker at
The 2011 New York Life Symposium: Civic Engagement in the Era of New Media
Wednesday, March 16th from 5 to 8pm in New York City
Betty Yu, Media Action Grassroots Network Coordinator, Center for Media Justice
Betty Yu is a longtime community organizer, media activist, and filmmaker. Prior to joining CMJ, Yu served as director of community outreach and media services at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), New York City’s community-access TV organization. She additionally worked as a lead organizer for the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association. Yu was recognized as a semi-finalist for a National Brick “Do Something” Award, the recipient of a Union Square Award for grassroots activism, and a fellow of the National Rockwood Fellowship in Media, Communications and Information Policy.