CUNY’s Brooklyn College says it prepares students for real careers in the motion picture industry. From DOC NYC 2019 are seven movies, all shorts, that should be seen by those who want a headstart to witness the visions of the latest vanguard of documentarians who want to make a difference.
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Gloom and Doom Reports About The Fourth Estate Can’t Dissuade Serious Student Journalists
Despite these times of “fake news,” slimy, lying journalists, the severe mistrust of news media by the American public, according to a recent Columbia Journalism Review article, and the treats of violence against reporters trying to do their jobs, there are Hunter students impassioned about the profession nonetheless
Senior Year Doesn’t Mean Senioritis for Henry Fernberger & Cassandra Catapano
Majoring in ancient Greek and Latin and minoring in media studies with a concentration in journalism, Henry Fernberger, like many students, says he isn’t sure what he’s going to do once he graduates. But he knows he has returned to…
Two Savvy Students Who Learned How to Beat Those Commuter Campus Blues
Hunter Hawks Tennis Player Elaine Zhang, 22, and Davin Smith, a media studies major with a concentration in journalism who hosts a sports radio show, found the camaradarie and student activities they needed to avoid those commuter campus blues.
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FIRE IN PARADISE
Drea Cooper, a co-director of this mesmerizing movie of people making life and death decisions to survive, lives in Oakland, California and noticed smoke November 8, 2018 but didn’t give it much thought until his mom called late in the evening: “Paradise is gone,” she said.
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WAGING CHANGE Q&A, Video 3: Attention Audiences, Time to Get Down
Director Abby Ginzberg tells the audience she wants them to join the movement for progressive change.