Internship Information Sessions, Colloquiums & Film Awards
This Post: CAA Information Session, Jamie Cohen Colloquium, Listening to Digitized “Ratatas” or “No Sabo Kids” Article, Film Initiatives & Awards, Richard Vetere casted in Third Week drama
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Media Studies Colloquium Series 10/18
Wednesday 10/18 - 5:30pm-6:30pm @ G Building Room 200 or Zoom! Zoom link: http://mediasquat.com
Jamie Cohen, assistant professor of Media Studies at Queens, will join us tomorrow! Cohen teaches Digital Activism, Social Media, Aesthetics and Advertising Inequalities, his research focuses on memes and digital culture.
Creative Artists Agency Information Session - ON CAMPUS TOMORROW 10/18
Join us for an on campus information session to learn about Summer 2024 Internship and Full-Tim Opps! More details below! Wednesday 10/18 - Room TBD @ 12:15pm-1:30pm
Creative Artists Agency's (CAA) Summer 2024 Internship & Full-time Opportunities Information Session - TOMORROW!
Join us for an on campus information session with CAAcampus to learn about Summer 2024 Internship and Full-Tim Opportunities!
Wednesday 10/18 - Room TBD @ 12:15pm-1:30pm RSVP Here!
Questions? Email: campus@caa.com
Listening to Digitized “Ratatas” or “No Sabo Kids”
Sara Veronica Hinojos, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at QC and Eliana Buenrostro, Ph.D. student at the University of California Riverside in Ethnic Studies, explore the importance of language practices and accents as new forms of belonging as Latinx in the U.S and how the communal fear of losing these features of the culture are reflected in media. Read their take in the latest issue of Sounding Out!
Sounding Out! is a bi-weekly online publication, a networked academic archive, and a dynamic group platform bringing together sound studies scholars, sound artists and professionals, and readers interested in the cultural politics of sound and listening.
Decentralized Pictures Film Initiatives & AWARDS 🎥
Decentralized Pictures (DCP) is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization seeking to discover new and innovative filmmaking talent. They run a democratic film fund and opportunity pool that allows anyone with internet access to apply for financing or support If the world loves it, they’ll help you make it!
The iPhone Filmmaking Initiative, for example, was a film funding award from DCP encouraging filmmakers to make 3-5 minute short films using iPhones provided by DCP, for which they could receive prizes. DP announced the winner, Luis Vanegas, and his project which is open to view here: “Those Winged Things”.
Though the iPhone portal has closed, DCP still has many other active awards! Stay up to date with their other ongoing awards through their postings here!
Film: Third Week
A film by Jordi Torrent
Third Week is a social drama about second chances in life and the challenges they bring. The complexities of race relations are present, but it is not a story about race.
At the heart of the narrative is Alvin’s human struggle in finding himself again after having spent two years in prison. He is at a crossroads where past and present meet head on and offer him an opportunity for redemption. But Alvin’s disfunctional family will entangle him into a situation he would have rather avoided. Third Week is a USA-Spain co-production shot in Staten Island, a socially and aesthetically marginalized neighborhood of New York City seldom represented on screen.
Richard Vetere, American playwright, award winning writer for over twenty published works and professor of Media Studies at Queens College, plays Gus in the film, the owner of the machine shop where Alvin works.
Richard produced scripts include “Vigilante,” “The Third Miracle,” and “The Marriage Fool.” As an actor, he has appeared in many films and TV series, including “The Great American Heist,” "Man of Danger" and "Skeleton Crew."
Third Week has just secured major European distribution. Watch the Trailer!
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