Doc Studies alumna, Adele Free Pham, was recently featured on the Center for Asian American Media’s website. The conversation marks the release of her documentary ‘Nailed It’, which captures an unforgettable and often hilarious saga born of tragedy, charting the rise, struggle, stereotypes, and steady hold Vietnamese Americans have on today’s $8 billion dollar nail industry. Congrats, Adele!
Read a Q&A with Adele here
The short documentary Russian Windows is a rumination on the web-based relationship of a Russian teacher stranded in Ghent, and her American student.
https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/films/shorts/shorts-plus/russian-windows/
Nathan Reich recently had his beautifully shot, intimate documentary “Calving Season” featured on Season 6 of the New York Times Op-Docs.
“Calving Season” is a shortened version of Nathan’s longer film “The Warming Shed”.
Congrats, Nathan!
Päivi Kankaro is a Finnish graduate of the Doc Studies program, class of 2015. Since graduation, she has been working as a video producer and project manager at Kollabora, a DIY fashion startup. In February, with her friend Nora Abousteit, she also opened CraftJam, a Union Square craft workshop recently profiled in The New York Post.
Continue reading “Alum Päivi Kankaro and her new company CraftJam”
Two graduates, Erin Davis from Doc Studies, and Mark Nickolas from the MA in Media Studies, will screen work in major festivals this week. A third, Doc Studies alum Ivana Todorovic, will be featured with her doc ‘A Harlem Mother’ in Wednesday’s New York Times (front page, Metro section). The films of both Doc Studies alums originated in the Doc Studies certificate program. Also from Doc Studies, is Mark Nickolas’ cinematographer Oscar Frasser.
Continue reading “Stellar Week for New School Documentarians”
This film portrait follows 19-year-old David Fasanya, an accomplished performance poet, as he ages out of his teen poetry organization and navigates the uncertain terrain between adolescence and adulthood.
5 Pointz, Queens is the grandest cathedral ever built to hip hop — an internationally celebrated graffiti center, recently erased by city rezoning and property development.
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