NYU alum Andrew Hongo’s thesis film “Legacy,” was recently screened at the Docutah International Film Festival and the UNSPOKEN Human Rights Festival. Hongo has also been traveling with his films in Cambodia screening it in orphanages, drug rehab centers, and villages across the country.
We are thrilled to announce that Yuanchen Liu, a 2010 graduate of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, News and Documentary, won the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award for his graduate thesis documentary, “To the Light.” Yuanchen’s experience covering stories in underdeveloped communities gave him the belief that documentaries can be a powerful tool [...]
Alum France Costrel was sponsored to attend the 2011 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, OH. Costrel’s film, “Finding Fathers,” was featured in the First Film category and won the “EMERGING FILMMAKER” Award.
On October 22, 2011, NewsDoc student Haya Fatima Iqbal’s video was featured in “Third World: Third Wards/Karachi,” organized by Voices Breaking Boundaries, a non-profit based in Houston, TX. The event was a “living room art production,” featuring multimedia installations inside homes and the surrounding property in one of Houston’s oldest neighborhoods – the Third Ward. [...]
New York City’s slowly declining unemployment rate has stalled at 8.7 percent since March, leaving more than 340,000 New Yorkers currently searching for work. According to the New York State Department of Labor, more than half of the unemployed New Yorkers are either Hispanic or black. Pedro Mercado is one of the roughly 140,000 Hispanics [...]
October 25, 2011 Two Egyptian activists led hundreds of American protesters on a march out of Zuccotti Park on Monday, walking past the police barricades on Wall Street for the first time since protests began about six weeks ago. It marked a peculiar show of solidarity between a movement born out of decades of oppression [...]
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