Documenting “HOPE” from Myanmar

“HOPE”, a short film by Min Min Hein (CCNY MFA Class of 2017) is based on a monastic school called “Shwe Ku”, a place in the Dry Zone of Myanmar where experiences of love, sharing, solidarity and consideration along with the unique tradition, culture and lifestyle of the society of Myanmar are documented.

 

Watch the trailer now

 

 

 

This short film was officially selected by the International Peace and Film Festival as the second runner up. Please click here for additional details.

Click here to learn more about the festival.

 

TOM IN AMERICA…travels far & wide

TOM IN AMERICA by MFA Class of 2013 graduate Flavio Alves, premiered this past June at Palm Springs Film Festival (June 17-23) and screened at the 38th Montreal International Film Festival in August 2014 (both are Top-Tier and Oscar qualifying), continues to travel far and wide within the film festival circuit with great success!  To read more or follow, please visit these sites: https://www.facebook.com/TominAmerica and http://tominamerica.com/screenings.html

 

Cityvisions 2014 Film & Video Showcase at DGA in NYC – MAY 29-30!

http://cityvisions.ccny.cuny.edu/

Watch the trailer via: http://cityvisions.ccny.cuny.edu/trailer/

 

Yessica Curiel-Montoya

Yessica Curiel-Montoya’s “Quiet Space” has been accepted to the Short Film Corner, at the Festival de Cannes 2014. Which means that in the coming weeks, exactly a year after principal photography, a finished film will be taken to French Riviera.

 

41st Annual Student Academy Awards – Semifinalist, Fan He

RED FOG, by Fan He (Class of 2014), was recently chosen to advance in the 41st Annual Student Academy Awards – Region Three Semifinals (Narrative Program). This short film (created as a Digital Production class assignment) that takes place in the year 2032 after the deadly Great Red Fog disappears from China.

 

Fan He was recently interviewed by SinoVision’s reporter
Lani Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPSiu3cXjw

You can also watch a clip via:

http://en.sinovision.net/fact-and-fiction-in-beijing-fan-hes-red-fog/

Fan He is also the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Supervisor
of enMaze Pictures: http://www.enmaze.com/

 

“Of Kites & Borders” wins two prestigious “Best Doc” Awards!

Yolanda Pividal (right) with Co-Editor, Sara Booth (left)

OF KITES & BORDERS by Yolanda Pividal (MFA Class of 2007) wins “Best Documentary Award” at the 2013 San Diego Film Festival AND “Best Documentary Award” at Docs DF 2013!

The Kayros Films Team (Yolanda Pividal & Co.) comments: “The journey…has just begun, and we don´t know where it will take us, but it is clear we couldn’t have had a better starting point.”

 

OF KITES & BORDERS tells story of the daily struggle to be a child living on the US-Mexico border through the eyes of four working children in the city of Tijuana. A story of hope, struggle, and survival that digs behind newspapers’ headlines to explore life on the other side of the wall and the underlying context of immigration. a perspective that invites viewers to rethink the concept of “border” and “otherness.” We often find stories about people crossing borders, but where are the stories on how borders cross people’s lives? Visit the film’s blog via: http://www.fightingkitesthefilm.com/blog.php

Visit the film’s blog via: http://www.fightingkitesthefilm.com/blog.php

 

CUNY Film Festival – Call for Entries!

SUBMIT YOUR FILM! GO TO: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/cuff/submitting/

 

First Feature from MFA Grad Travels International Festival Circuit

Rania Attieh’s (MFA’09) first feature film, OK, ENOUGH, GOODBYE, made in collaboration with partner Daniel Garcia, won the Jury Prize at TFF (Torino Film festival 2011); the Special Jury Prize and Best Actor prize at Belfort Entrevues 2011. The film won 4 other awards at international film festivals inclding “Best New Directors from the Arab World” at the Abu Dhabi, and screened at festivals such as Montreal, Vancouver, Kavory Vary and Hamptons.

The filmmakers have been interviewed by Cahier du Cinema in Oct. 2011. They have just completed their second feature ‘Recommended By Enrique’.  Rania and Daniel are also listed in the “25 New faces of Independent Film in 2011″ by Filmmaker Magazine <http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/rania-attieh-daniel-garcia/>.