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Zumbi,
directed by Norma Castillo (City College).
The witnessing of a
murder triggers the memories of a lonely
sixty-year-old
ex-prostitute. This personal journey of survival
is also a metaphoric
journey through which we navigate decades of the
Nicaraguan history and struggle.
Norma Castillo
attended City College of New York. In 2002 she
obtained her M.F.A. Degree in Media Arts Production.
She is the recipient of many awards. In May 2002,
Zumbi won the
Best Fiction Film and Best Editing awards in the
annual Cityvisions
Showcase.
The
Haus Elf,
Boris Azemar (Brooklyn).
The day I looked to
the sky,”
directed by Ray Ozone (Brooklyn College).
“Born in 1983, I have
loved film and music from my very first day. By the
age of 13, I was making trance music on mp3.com and
within a year, hit the top of their charts, but my
true passion was film. Teaching myself special
effects and writing many stories, I finally changed
my major from computer programming to film, and went
on to make The day I looked to the sky as
well as a few other movies, screenplays, and 3D
animations.”
"The day I looked
to the sky" was meant to be a
scifi short that isn’t
afraid to make fun of itself.
The special effects were too good the first time
around and I actually deleted them all and made them
fuzzy to match the film. The story is about a young
boy who was trying out his new camcorder with his
mom, when he accidentally recorded a UFO. While
calling a friend he is overheard by the men in black
and runs trying to save his video as well as his
life. My actors, crew and
I had a lot of fun
making this film, and I
hope you enjoy!”
Speak of Change: the
Life of Frances Wright,
directed by Harlan D. Whatley (Hunter College).
Harlan
D.Whatley is an MFA
candidate in the Integrated Media Arts program at
Hunter College. His short and feature-length
documentaries have been shot in six countries and
screened in three countries and six states. His
feature-length documentary, The Tartan Apple: the
Scots in New York City, won Best Documentary at the
2004 Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival and
is available from
Amazon.com.
Speak of Change: the
Life of Frances Wright
is Harlan Whatley’s thesis film for his MFA in
Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College. The
historical documentary examines the extraordinary
life of this early 19th century thinker.
Song of Roosevelt
Ave.,
directed by Aaron Schock
(Queens College).
Song of Roosevelt
Ave.
is a meditation on Queens, NY - home to over one
million foreign-born immigrants and arguably the
most diverse place in the world. Stretching over 60
blocks, Roosevelt Ave. is at the center of this
global crossroads, a place where new immigrants get
their start as street vendors, day-laborers, can
collectors, and elsewhere in the informal economy of
the street.
Aaron
Schock has worked in
community development in New York City for many
years. “Song of Roosevelt Ave.” is his first film.
M20 Demo,
directed by Heath Allen (City College).
A one-minute visual
essay on the modern technologies of crowd control at
work at the March 20th, 2005 anti-war march in New
York City.
The NYPD confiscates wooden placard stakes as
possible weapons. Police and undercover officers
march with demonstrators. The TARU unit openly uses
camcorders to record demonstrators and look for
troublemakers. Police have threatened to arrest
demonstrators who wear masks that cover the face.
On corners and side streets police blockades cage
demonstrators in order to control flow and provide a
psychological deterrent to freedom of movement and
to disperse crowds.
Heath Allen hails
from Kansas City, Missouri and has pent the past
five years living in this city's west side of
midtown working in the indie
film industry. His thesis film, Cranked Up, about a
black bloc anarchist will be screening at this
year's Cityvisions film
festival. He is developing a few film projects
right now. Heath can be reached at heath.allen@gmail.com
Demo, Weapons of Mass Destruction Collective (City
College)
Featured
speaker: Jerry Carlson, City College/Graduate
Center.
6 pm, Center For Worker Education, Sixth
Floor, 99 Hudson Street (between Franklin and
Harrison Streets). |
