Hunting in Wartime, a feature doc by IMA alum Samantha Farinella will be screening at the University of Hawai’i on Nov 14th. More about the film: https://www.huntinginwartime.com
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IMA Alum, Professor leads a workshops at UnionDocs
IMA alum + professor Jordan Lord is leading a workshop at UnionDocs on November 11-13 called Entangled Bonds: Working with Family in Documentary Film.The workshop will be held at UnionDocs’s new space in Ridgewood: 352 Onderdonk Avenue.All info and tickets: https://uniondocs.org/event/entangled-bonds-working-with-family-in-documentary-film-2022-11-11/ “Although obtaining “access” to filming one’s family is often […]
IMA Professor wins a Redford Center Environmental Impact Film Grant
IMA faculty member and department chair, Kelly Anderson, is the recipient of a Redford Center Environmental Impact Film Grant! The Redford Center’s 2022-23 Grantee cohort consists of twelve film projects selected from a bi-annual open call that yielded 250 applicant projects from over 20 different countries featuring cross-cutting environmental themes […]
IMA alum screens thesis film at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
IMA alum Melissa Z. Montero Padilla is screening her thesis, Memorias de Mi Familia at the 12th annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival on Thursday, November 10th at 8pm. https://iprhff.org For more info and tickets: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/memorias-de-mi-familia-67106 “Memorias de Mi Familia is a personal documentary where I explore the meaning of “home” […]
IMA alum has a film screening on POV
IMA alum Alex Mallis has a short film called Shut Up and Paint screening on POV on November 7th. The film is directed by Alex Mallis and Titus Kaphar and is about how Kaphar uses film as a medium while grappling with an insatiable art market seeking to silence his […]
Two recent IMA alumni are awarded a NYWIFT grant
Two recent IMA alumni, Melissa Z Montero Padilla and Jacqueline Wadeare awarded a New York Women in Film and Television Grant (NYWIFT) https://www.nywift.org for their thesis work.
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Prof. Andrew Demirjian’s two large-scale installations on exhibit
Prof. Andrew Demirjian’s two large-scale installations on exhibit: The Artist’s Way, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Sept. 22 – Oct. 20, 2022Collaboration with James Proctor Souvenirs from the Future, The Arab American Museum, Sept. 1 – May 6, 2023Collaboration with Dahlia Elsayed
Disordered: Conversations about mental health and society
Alum Rachel Brown’s thesis project, Disordered: Conversations about mental health and society completed in Fall 2017 was a collaborative and public participatory art project which aimed at destigmatizing mental health issues and reframing them as societal issues. Rachel produced pop-up events at public parks where passersby could contribute to the […]