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The MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts (IMA) offers advanced studies in nonfiction media making. The IMA Program educates multi-disciplinary, socially engaged media makers in a diverse range of skills across the media landscape. Working with faculty from film, video, emerging media, and journalism backgrounds, students learn to conceptualize, create and distribute innovative, politically and socially engaged expression using contemporary media technologies. ... keep reading about IMA

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On March 31st, the Lang Theater hosted a showcase from the HAL Narrative Change Fellowship in collaboration with the Rikers Public Memory Project.
IMA student Jesse Allain-Marcus worked with fellow Turquoise to shoot and edit a piece centered on incarcerated women and their own frameworks for healing. Seeing Turquoise on stage, radiant, dressed in her signature turquoise, was a highlight of the night.
We are proud to have IMA students and faculty be part of this work. 🩵🎬 Photos by Prof Betty Yu
#HALFellowship #RikersPublicMemoryProject #NarrativeChange #IMA Storytelling
On March 31st, the Lang Theater hosted a showcase from the HAL Narrative Change Fellowship in collaboration with the Rikers Public Memory Project.
IMA student Jesse Allain-Marcus worked with fellow Turquoise to shoot and edit a piece centered on incarcerated women and their own frameworks for healing. Seeing Turquoise on stage, radiant, dressed in her signature turquoise, was a highlight of the night.
We are proud to have IMA students and faculty be part of this work. 🩵🎬 Photos by Prof Betty Yu
#HALFellowship #RikersPublicMemoryProject #NarrativeChange #IMA Storytelling
On March 31st, the Lang Theater hosted a showcase from the HAL Narrative Change Fellowship in collaboration with the Rikers Public Memory Project.
IMA student Jesse Allain-Marcus worked with fellow Turquoise to shoot and edit a piece centered on incarcerated women and their own frameworks for healing. Seeing Turquoise on stage, radiant, dressed in her signature turquoise, was a highlight of the night.
We are proud to have IMA students and faculty be part of this work. 🩵🎬 Photos by Prof Betty Yu
#HALFellowship #RikersPublicMemoryProject #NarrativeChange #IMA Storytelling
On March 31st, the Lang Theater hosted a showcase from the HAL Narrative Change Fellowship in collaboration with the Rikers Public Memory Project. IMA student Jesse Allain-Marcus worked with fellow Turquoise to shoot and edit a piece centered on incarcerated women and their own frameworks for healing. Seeing Turquoise on stage, radiant, dressed in her signature turquoise, was a highlight of the night. We are proud to have IMA students and faculty be part of this work. 🩵🎬 Photos by Prof Betty Yu #HALFellowship #RikersPublicMemoryProject #NarrativeChange #IMA Storytelling
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Admission deadline extended! Apply here ✨https://ima-mfa.hunter.cuny.edu/ima-admissions-guidelines/✨
Admission deadline extended! Apply here ✨https://ima-mfa.hunter.cuny.edu/ima-admissions-guidelines/✨
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Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊
IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢
#PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊
IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢
#PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊
IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢
#PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊
IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢
#PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
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And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out!
This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty:
1. Cake
2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out
3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
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Hunter College Screening of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR
March 12th, 6-7:30 PM

Come to Hunter’s Screening and Panel Discussion of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea

Filmmaker and IMA alumn Natasha Florentino will be screening her latest film, A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR about local residents fight against the demolition of NYC’s public housing in Chelsea. There will be a panel discussion with Natasha and two participants from the film - a NYCHA resident leader and urban planner.

Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/UDUfCvHB2RjKB8MY7
Hunter College Screening of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR March 12th, 6-7:30 PM Come to Hunter’s Screening and Panel Discussion of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea Filmmaker and IMA alumn Natasha Florentino will be screening her latest film, A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR about local residents fight against the demolition of NYC’s public housing in Chelsea. There will be a panel discussion with Natasha and two participants from the film - a NYCHA resident leader and urban planner. Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/UDUfCvHB2RjKB8MY7
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The 48-Hour Project Challenge is back for its 3rd edition!
You’ll work with a mix of IMA students, alumni, and other creative community members (bring your friends!) to make a film or media project in 48 hours.

It’s similar to a 48 Hour Film Festival, but IMA’s version is open to documentary, audio-only projects, experimental films, and recorded performance, in addition to narrative films—  whatever direction you want to take it. It’s fun to make a short collaborative project, and it also encourages trying something new—maybe you’ll act for the first time, try audio recording, pick up a camera after a long hiatus, or experiment with something outside your comfort zone. It could lead to future collaborations and, if you need to reconnect with making things right now, it could do that too. Animation by @shiragolden.art 

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiNz5wwMfp5RA0blYq8kEBANgNFPOphDv39GAljZjR2GTPjw/viewform?usp=dialog&pli=1&authuser=0
The 48-Hour Project Challenge is back for its 3rd edition! You’ll work with a mix of IMA students, alumni, and other creative community members (bring your friends!) to make a film or media project in 48 hours. It’s similar to a 48 Hour Film Festival, but IMA’s version is open to documentary, audio-only projects, experimental films, and recorded performance, in addition to narrative films— whatever direction you want to take it. It’s fun to make a short collaborative project, and it also encourages trying something new—maybe you’ll act for the first time, try audio recording, pick up a camera after a long hiatus, or experiment with something outside your comfort zone. It could lead to future collaborations and, if you need to reconnect with making things right now, it could do that too. Animation by @shiragolden.art Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiNz5wwMfp5RA0blYq8kEBANgNFPOphDv39GAljZjR2GTPjw/viewform?usp=dialog&pli=1&authuser=0
3 months ago
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