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IMA Alumna Laurie Sumie Filiak wins “Best Documentary” at CUNY Festival

2010 IMA Graduate Laurie Sumie Filiak’s thesis film “Struggle for Existence” has won Best Documentary award at the CUNY Asian American Film Festival. The film combines Laurie’s elegant animation and graphics with documentary material to spin a compelling story of a Hawaiian finch on the verge of extinction. Winning qualifies the film for screening the Asian American International Film Festival in July as part of a CUNY Shorts program.

Sunday, July 18, 2010
1PM, at Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street, Manhattan
Q&A to follow

Tickets:
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/shorts/cuny-shorts

IMA Students Esy Casey and Sarah Friedland’s documentary screening

Thing With No Name, a documentary by Esy Casey and Sarah Friedland, will be screening Tuesday June 1st at the Philadelphia Film Society.

June 1st. World Cafe Live, 7:30pm
3025 Walnut St

In post-apartheid South Africa, life has gotten better, but now there is a disease that has hold on a vanishing population. Sixty-three percent of the world’s population infected with HIV/AIDS lives in the country, and in Kwazulu Natal, where the rate of infection in women is twice that of men, one out of every six people is HIV-positive. This beautifully shot documentary intimately displays the humanity surrounding this astounding epidemic and proves that those suffering are more than mere statistics.

IMA Alumna Sarah Nelson Wright at MoCADA

Gentrification’s Impact on New York City
Round Table Discussion
05.08.2010
80 Hanson Place, at South Portland, Brooklyn
at MoCADA

Sarah’s showing a large installation of her project Locations & Dislocation, which takes a poetic look at why people move through gentrifying areas.

How is gentrification affecting other communities in New York City? What are the implications for the future? This panel discussion will be moderated by Laurie Cumbo, Founder & Executive Director of MoCADA and will include panelists: Shantrelle P. Lewis: Director of Programs and Exhibitions at The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Bob Lee: Director of the Asian American Arts Centre, Diane Fraher: Founder and Executive Director Amerinda, Inc. American Indian Artists, and Michael Unthank: Executive Director, Harlem Arts Alliance.

More info: http://mocada.org/

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