Join the Department of Film and Media Studies April 9 – 11, 2024 for a series of events with Sainsbury Visiting Artist Alessandra Lacorazza. Lacorazza is a queer Colombian-American writer-director whose feature debut In the Summers won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. After Maria, which she edited, was nominated for an Academy Award. As a worker-owner of the Meerkat Media Coop, Alessandra directs, produces, and edits artful and impactful videos for foundations, news magazines, publishers and non-profits.
RSVP here for events below (except for individual critiques):
Photo credit: Ray Rahim
Tuesday, April 9
2-5pm (Black Box, 543HN)
Class visit: FILMP 371: Screen Directing
Alessandra will provide a detailed inside look at her process directing In The Summers.
(open to students in FILMP 352, Film and Video Production Seminar, IMA)
7-9pm (544HN)
Class visit: IMA 78012: Writing The Short
Alessandra will share her short films and unpack her writing and directing process. Her collaborator Sarah Friedland (IMA ‘10) will join remotely.
(Open to IMA students)
Wednesday, April 10
2:30-3:45pm (TV Studio, 436HN)
Artist Talk: From Internship to Sundance
Alessandra will share her journey from intern to documentary editor, to being a member-owner of Meerkat Media, to writing and getting her feature film In The Summers to Sundance.
(Open to the Hunter College community)
Reception 3:45 – 4:30 (433HN)
6:30 – 9pm (Lang Auditorium, 424HN)
Screening: In The Summers
Two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Q&A moderated by Joseph McElhaney, Professor of Film and Media Studies.
Director Q&A moderated by Joseph McElhaney, Professor, Film and Media Studies.
(Open to the Hunter College community)
Thursday April 11
10:30am – 12:15pm (506HN)
In class visit: FILM 22301/MEDIA 29601: LGBT Documentary
(Limited seats open to Hunter College students)
1:30 – 4:30pm (544HN)
IMA individual critiques
