Film and Media Events
An Oscar winning psychological thriller by a renowned Palestinian filmmaker about two young Palestinian friends from the West Bank who have been recruited to be suicide bombers.
No need for RSVP for Hunter Community. Click here for more info on future film screenings.
You’re invited to the 2024 Arts in Education Job Fair presented by the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, Community-Word Project, and Hunter College’s Career Center, Office of the Arts, and the Arts Management and Leadership Certificate Program.
This event will not be recorded. Available positions will be crowdsourced from hiring organizations and added to the Roundtable’s Jobs Board for future reference.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Setup: Hiring organizations will have separate breakout rooms, and virtual attendees will be able to move freely between them to connect with organizations they are interested in.
Logging in: Attendees scheduled in the 3-4pm and 4-5pm time slots for the in-person fair are asked to keep to those schedules to prevent too many attendees in each room at one time. Attendees scheduled originally for the 5-6pm time slot are encouraged to attend when best suits them.
WHAT TO PREPARE
Have a digital file of your resume ready to send via email to organizations you connect with.
Have contact information ready to share via email for organizations you connect with.
Have a digital way to take notes and save links and information, or bring a pen and paper.
No RSVP necessary. Click here to Join.
Meeting ID: 828 6851 9090
Passcode: Roundtable
Held each spring, the Muse Performing Arts Showcase is where the Muse Scholars share their artistic talent with the Hunter community. Join us for a fun and festive evening of entertainment.
Join the Department of Film and Media Studies for a day with 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.
Artist Talk: From Internship to Sundance - Building a Film & Media Career - 2:30-3:45pm (TV Studio, 436HN)
Alessandra will share her journey from intern to documentary editor, to joining Meerkat Media and building a sustainable career, to writing and getting her feature film In The Summers to Sundance where it won the Directing and Grand Jury awards.
Moderated by Kelly Anderson - Chair, Film and Media Studies
Reception - 3:45 - 4:30 (TV Studio, 436HN)
Screening: In The Summers - 6:30 - 9pm (Lang Auditorium, 424HN)
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Directing Award, 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Director Q&A moderated by Joseph McElhaney, Professor, Film and Media Studies.
(Open to the Hunter College community)
Screening of new documentary film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink about one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America's newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Post-Screening discussion with Academy Award nominated filmmaker Rick Goldsmith, moderated by Sissel McCarthy, Program Head, Journalism.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). No RSVP necessary.
Tom Hall is currently the Artistic Director of Montclair Film. Previously, Hall held the position of Executive Director Montclair Film (2015-2022), Director, Artistic Director and Director of Programming at the Sarasota Film Festival (2005- 2014) and Programming Director at newportFILM in Newport, RI (2009-2011). In addition, Hall was Programmer for The Nantucket Film Festival in Nantucket, MA (2002-2005) as well as a former Director of New Media for Bravo/The Independent Film Channel (1997-2000). He has also worked in the Industry and Guest Services Offices at The Hamptons International Film Festival (2002-2003). In January of 2010, Tom was named one of Spring Board Media’s 20 under 40 in Film. Tom has directed short films for Bob Mould’s Carnival of Light and Sound Tour and was an inaugural member of the indieWIRE blogging community with his blog The Back Row Manifesto, which is now a standalone website.
Presented by the Arts Management and Leadership Certificate Program.
No RSVP necessary. Free for Hunter students.
Hans Tammen's Dark Circuits Orchestra, this time consisting of 20 musicians playing analog synthesizers, will play orchestra pieces of Phill Niblock, and the drone pages of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise.
With Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Luke Dubois, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Chuck Bettis, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, David First, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Daniel Neumann, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.
Phill Niblock: Baobab (2011)
Phill Niblock: 2 Lips (2008)
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (1963-67) Pages 7-19, 41-44
Katherine Liberovskaya: Visuals
Must RSVP. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Directions:
HN543/Black Box - 5th Floor - North Building
Entrance at 69th Street between Lexington & Park Avenue
MUST bring photo ID.
Questions? Contact: Hans Tammen (hta@mm.st)
We will screen King Coal, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Fesitval, and have a zoom Q&A with editor Iva Radivojević. Iva is an award winning documentary filmmaker and editor, and an alum of Hunter's Integrated Media Arts MFA program.
This event is free and open to all Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Questions? Contact Prof. Kelly Anderson (kanderso@hunter.cuny.edu)