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2012 NewsDoc Film Festival
NewsDoc Film Festival Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4. Please join us for the screening of the NYU News and Documentary Grad Documentaries Friday: 2-4:30, 20 Cooper Sq., 7th Floor TV Studio Saturday: 11-7, 19 University Pl, Room 102 (Please see image or trailer for titles and times) HOPE TO SEE YOUR THERE!
Master Class: Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson visited NYU in Fall 2011 to discuss filming techniques with current students. Johnson works as a director and a cinematographer. She is currently editing a documentary she shot and directed in Afghanistan called “I Dream Them Always”. In the last year, as the supervising DP on Abby Disney and Gini Reticker’s series, “Women, [...]
Alum Andrew Hongo screens thesis film worldwide
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.
News and Documentary Alumni Wins Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award
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 wins “Emerging Filmmaker Award”
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.
NewsDoc Student Haya Fatima Iqbal’s video featured in Houston, TX
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 Unemployment Hits Minorities Hardest
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 [...]
Occupy Wall Street Meets Tahrir Square
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 [...]
Queens: Illegal Conversions on the Rise
Sitting in her new airy room in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Jill, 26, recalls the days when she lived in an illegal basement in Ridgewood, Queens. Cell phone signals did not exist, bath towel always had a rotten smell, and everyday was a challenge making herself invisible to other tenants in the three-storey building. “I didn’t feel [...]
Chinese Homebuyers Entering the U.S. Market
Lu Hong, a 25-year-old nursing student at SUNY Stony Brook, migrated to the U.S. in 2004 from the eastern Zhejiang Province, China. Hong’s father, a Chinese businessman with a U.S. green card, spends two months a year in America and focuses the rest of the year on his booming construction business in China. After the [...]
A Fight For Mental Health In Minority Communities
BROOKLYN—She fought. She fought from high school to high school. Until Patice Ratliff started receiving counseling at her sixth high school, Brownsville Academy, she didn’t understand why fighting was always her first instinct. “Counseling is not just ‘oh my God, I’m going insane,’ counseling is something different,” said Ratliff, 17, standing outside of Brooklyn Criminal [...]
Debates on School Co-Location Rage in NYC
New York—Even when the parents of PS 184 Shuang Wen School (SW) won the battle against the City Department of Education (DOE) back in 2009 to keep charter schools and traditional public schools from sharing buildings, they knew it was only a temporary truce. As the size of the three existing charter schools in District One [...]
Brighton Beach School Leads the Way for Fitness Outside of the Gym
As the doors to room 219 open, the sound of third graders “bouncing” and “scooting” overpowers the voice of Beyoncé. Twenty-two children have their eyes fixed on the dance instructor, who is simultaneously relaying dance steps while jumping herself. This is Jamee Schleifer’s dance studio at New York City’s Public School 253. A rarity among [...]
Russians move from the Ballet to the Ballroom
Some of the most famous names of Russian descent are associated with ballet, such as Tchaikovsky, Irina Baronova and Mikhail Baryshnikov. But for today’s generation, Karina Smirnoff or Anna Trebunsnkaya often come to mind first, Russian dancers famous for their ballroom dance moves on the popular ABC show Dancing with the Stars. Smirnoff and Trebunsnkaya [...]
Film by Adjunct Professor, Vanessa Roth, Showing Nationwide
Adjunct professor and Master Class teacher, Vanessa Roth, directed American Teacher, now screening across the country. See more trailers and nationwide screening information. Biography from Big Year Productions Academy Award winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth has been writing, producing and directing pivotal documentary films, spots, specials and multimedia projects for more than a decade. Her work [...]
TFF 2011 Best Docs Opens Friday
Tribeca Film Festival 2011′s Best Docs opens with “Bombay Beach: A Doc Can Dance”. You can watch it at the IFC this Friday October 14th. For more information: http://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/features/faces-of-the-festival/Alma_Harel_Bombay_Beach.html
Alumni Reunion: November 9
This year we’re celebrating Yuanchen Liu’s graduation film, To the Light, which is up for the prestigious Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award and will be shown at the Festival on Saturday November 12 at 4pm. We also want to recognize other members of 2010 class, Annie Dietz, Andrew Hongo, Charlie Hoxie, Yara Costa Pereira, and [...]
9/11 A Decade Later
Charity Elder, Gabi Menezes and Carey Fox were NYU News and Documentary students when the 9/11 attacks took place. The days and weeks after the attack they were out in the streets of New York City reporting for their stories. Elder is the supervising producer of CBS, The Early Show, Menezes is the former Bureau Chief [...]
Church Avenue Laparkan Keeps Customers In Touch With Home
EAST FLATBUSH—Laparkan Trading, a company founded to provide an alternative shipping service for Caribbean immigrants in North America, enjoys consistent business in the densely populated Caribbean neighborhood of East Flatbush, despite tough economic times. When customers enter Church Avenue’s bustling, compact office filled with boxes, barrels and other customers, the atmosphere is familiar and comfortable. [...]
The Hobby of Owning a ‘Hobby Store’
With the economy in a tailspin, businesses everywhere are trying to find ways to increase revenue – even if it means relocating their entire operation. Small-business owner Marvin Cochran is the exception. For the past five years, Cochran and his “Rudy’s Hobby and Art Supply” store have experienced a steady 10 percent decline in revenue. [...]
Chinatown’s Nightlife Struggles
NEW YORK — Chinatown bar owners are skeptical about the Business Improvement District’s expected boost to tourism given the area’s sedate nightlife. With over 200 Chinese restaurants, street markets and cultural novelty stores, Canal Street has always been Chinatown’s anchor for tourism. However, the majority of these stores close their doors by 8 p.m., leaving [...]
Kabab Cafe: The Little Restaurant That Pioneered Little Egypt
There was nothing Egyptian about the two-block stretch in Astoria, popularly known today as Little Egypt, before Ali El Sayed opened Kabab Café in 1989. At that time, it stood out with its Arabic writing on the window, in a neighborhood that was predominantly American, Greek and Italian. Instead of ham and cheese sandwiches or [...]
Veteran Vendors: The Good and Bad in Brighton Beach
A new breed of illegal vendors is hitting the streets of Brighton Beach. In the wake of a long wait to get vending licenses in New York City, some military Veterans are taking advantage of a special program that gives them licenses and they are illegally renting them to hopeful vendors. Day after day, this [...]
Women’s Exchanges at the Forefront of American Handcrafts Movement
For Linda Alperin, 62, each day working at the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange is a pleasant holiday. Having volunteered at the charity consignment shop for 27 years, Ms. Alperin shares its missions of sustaining American handcrafts movement and providing a means of support for needy crafters. And for her, it is just like Christmas each time [...]
In Hard Times Kimchi Sales Get Creative
Making Kimchi, a traditional Korean pickled cabbage dish, is tough; selling it in New York and making a profit is even more challenging, especially in the midst of what analysts are now calling an economic double dip recession. With restaurant sales in the city down by 2.9 percent last year according to the National Restaurant [...]
Chips Quinn Scholarship
Students who are interested in pursuing careers in print/multimedia journalism can apply for the Chips Quinn Scholarship program, which provides training and paid internships at one of a variety of host newsrooms across the country. (Students required to travel outside their hometown will receive a $500 housing stipend.) The Chips Quinn Scholarship program is open [...]
Master Class: Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras visited NYU News & Doc in Spring 2011 to discuss on the process of filming and filming abroad, interviewing, staging sequences and Cinema Verite. Poitras is currently working on a trilogy of films about America post 9/11. The first film, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (2006), follows an Iraqi doctor in Baghdad. The second [...]