Now that David Ortiz has just gotten elected to the class 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame which Dominican ballplayer is next? Ismael Nunez is a graduate of Hunter College’s undergraduate media studies program where he focused on journalism. Besides being a baseball enthusiast and a fanatic and historian, he is also an advocate of Puerto Rican Independence and an advocate of Disability Rights. He is a contributor to The Youth and Adults Self Advocate News Letter at YAI. This is his first of many stories to come as a Contributor to the WORD
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Registration Open for 18th Annual 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition
72 Hour Shoot Out Competitions are designed to promote gender and ethnic diversity in media and empower emerging female filmmakers and filmmakers of color, particularly Asian Americans. Judges this year include Marci Phillips (VP, Casting for ABC Primetime), Antony Wong (Program Coordinator at the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of The City University of New York (CUNY)), Daniel Sakaya of CrossingsTV, and more. – Gregg W. Morris
Tribeca Festival’s 2022 Dates and Call For SUBMISSIONS
NEW YORK – August 3, 2021 – The Tribeca Festival today announced that its 21st edition will take place June 8-19, 2022 in New York City. For two decades the Festival has been a destination for new work from established filmmakers as well as emerging creators. Next June, Tribeca will continue its long tradition of exploring innovations in storytelling across film TV, VR, gaming, podcasts and more.
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Omicron Surging January 27, 2022
“The more the virus circulates, the more opportunities the virus has to change,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said in a statement last week. “Omicron will not be the last variant that you will hear us discuss, and the possibility of future emergence of variants of concern is very real.” – By Gregg W. Morris
Attention Audiences – A Damn the Pandemic, Full Speed Ahead Film Review (And Don’t Forget Your Masks When You See the Film): Director Skye Wallin’s AMERICAN GADFLY
“Generation Z, they’ve grown up in a world where every system is broken. They were young when the 2008 financial crisis hit, they saw the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan, climate crisis. And so they know some sort of radical change, some sort of revolutionary change is imminent and it’s necessary” – Maurice Gravel’s Campaign Manager, David Oks.
Review by Gregg W. Morris
DOC NYC BOYCOTT Film Review – Part 1
Bravura Story Telling of the Fight of Ordinary Americans Against Laws Sweeping Across the Country to Strangle Cherished First Amendment Rights Right Under Our Noses. Part 1 Film review by Gregg W. Morris
COVID-19 Has Added Challenges to the Lives of Hawks Student Athletes Unlike Any Period in the History of the College
“Playing now is more painful than I’ve remembered,” Regis Enema, star center back for the men’s soccer team,” tells the WORD’s Morgan Gresse. ““Before COVID we all had a better understanding of what it meant to be a team because we all had the same priorities: School and soccer.”
2021 DOC NYC Film Review Teaser: PUNCH 9 FOR HAROLD WASHINGTON – Part 1
Director Joe Winston chronicles the historic legacy of Chicago’s first African American Mayor, Harold Washington. PUNCH 9 FOR HAROLD WASHINGTON draws on archival footage of 1980s Chi-Town with all its corruption and racial discrimination as well as the resilience and determination of Black Chi-Towners. IT includes candid interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett. The film shows Washington’s political repertoire of skills and stratagems as well as stinging betrayals, and unlikely victories.
Winston and his filmmakers believe Washington’s legacy continues to resonate for the Windy City and the nation, confronting the never ending social issues that undermined the country.
By Gregg W. Morris
DOC NYC Film Festival 2021
The Mother of All Documentary Film Festivals – More than 120 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 32 World Premieres and 34 US premieres. Opening Night film was Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G, Closing Night is Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave and Centerpiece docs are Sam Pollard and Rex Miller’s Citizen Ashe and Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner’s Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over. By Gregg W. Morris
Students Dealing with Challenges Unlike Any in Recent Memory Say They Are Cautiously Optimistic
The first day of classes landed on a muggy Wednesday, August 25. A seemingly never-ending line of students shuffled outside the Hunter West Building beginning at 10 a.m. An air of confusion at the Lexington Avenue and 68th Street campus was palpable as voices and discussions could be heard about the line’s purpose. – Article, second in a series, this one written by Bailey Huebner.