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)

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