NYU News & Documentary

Congrats to Madeline Gunderson.
Madeline Gunderson is a documentary filmmaker born and raised in a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based in Brooklyn. Madeline is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Arts grant recipient in Mexico, where she is directing a documentary film in Mexico State. For 9 months she'll be living in Mexico monitoring the Monarch butterfly brigade.

Previously, she was a GroundTruth Democracy fellow, an Overseas Press Club grant recipient, and a Chester Fritz scholar. Madeline has worked at USA Today, NBC News, Little Monster Films and Adonde Media. She directed the short documentaries A VALLEY DIVIDED, which premiered at DOCNYC, and LA VIDA DE UN LATERO, a “Best of the Fest '' selection at the Northwest Film Forum.

Announced today, Rishabh Jain's thesis documentary, A Dream Called Khushi is a FINALIST in the documentary category for the Student Academy Awards 2024. This year total submissions were 2683 films. https://www.oscars.org/news/meet-2024-student-academy-awards-finalists

Against all odds, a Rohingya refugee fights for education in Bangladesh's camps. When she meets AP journalist Rishabh Jain, her story ignites public outrage, revealing her resilience and the plight of Rohingya refugees denied basic rights. Dreaming of a life in Canada, where she can study, will she be the one in a million to break free?

Excited for our NYC premiere Sept 18. Hope you can join us. Register here:
https://ajhs.org/events/film-screening-family-treasures-lost-found/

Congrats to Yara Costa Pereira! It's good to start the year with good news despite the state of the world! Mine started with the beautiful and rewarding news of being one of the 12 winning artists of the Prince Claus Fund's Mentoring Award 2023 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut: Cultural and artistic responses to the environmental crisis...to develop in 2024. This year will continue to be a busy one...
https://princeclausfund.org/carec-2023-announcement

Congrats to ZHIYING DENG who as producer of Girl of the Wind, won the Best International Short Film of Doc Edge 2024, and as Doc Edge is an Academy Award qualifying festival. She went to New Zealand to receive the award,

Invitation from NewsDoc Alum Caitlin Shamberg:
I wanted to reach out as I'm working at a new kind of film club called Galerie. We're a startup working to create a community around filmmaking, with groundbreaking films to stream, original content and live events.

I thought you and your documentary students might be interested in some of our upcoming events, including live chats with filmmakers and documentary watch parties.

You can go here for a FREE 3-month membership to Galerie that gives you access to everything on our website. Watch curated films, explore original content and join live events.

Here's what's coming up on Galerie:

Galerie curator and director (The Wonder, A Fantastic Woman) Sebastian Lelio will join us on July 9 to talk about his work.

On July 14, documentary filmmaker Boris Mitić will join us for a watch party of Anna, the gripping 1975 documentary about a teenager living on the streets of Rome.

Tomorrow at the NYC Indie Film Festival. 1pm at the producers club is Franky Dean's film NANCY JOY
https://nycindieff.com/session/documentary-17/.

Congratulations to Mona El-Naggar who was selected for American Academy in Berlin. She will be focusing on Women and Sexuality in the Arab World.

Congrats to alumni Alyse Shorland and Contessa Gayle who have their documentary in the Tribeca Film Festival. Don't miss it!

The Debutantes | 2024 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca Focusing on the first group of Black debutantes in Canton, Ohio in a decade, this documentary follows the young women as they unpack the ball’s legacy and chart their path forward, both for tradition and themselves.

Congratulations to NewsDoc alum Siyi Chen who worked as a finishing editor on the film Made in Ethiopia which is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this year!

Congratulations to NewsDoc alum Giorgio Ghiotto who won the Non Fiction Series student Emmy for his thesis documentary, Wings of Dust!

Giorgio also won the Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award, given to only one of the winners, with an award of $4000. He follows in the footsteps of Shuhao Tse who won this award last year.

Congrats to Cripsin for winning the GOLD with his thesis doc. First of many we hope!

Congrats to Crispin Kerr-Dineen for winning the Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival in the short documentary category for his thesis doc Shattered Expectations.

Congrats to Shehzad for being so productive!

India's War On Fake News: How Disinformation Became India's #1 Threat | Fact Vs Fiction Why has fake news become an industry in India? A 15-year-long investigation unearthed 750 fake media outlets operating from India and spanning across 119 cou...

https://nywildfilmfestival.com/
I'll be at NY Wild festival next Saturday, moderating morning session featuring alum Giorgio Ghiotto's film Winds fo Dust.

New York Wild Film Festival The New York WILD Film Festival is the first annual documentary film festival in New York to showcase a spectrum of topics, from exploration and adventure to wildlife, conservation and the environment, bringing all things WILD to one of the most urban cities in the world.

Congratulations to Franky Dean '24 whose thesis documentary 'Nancy Joy' has been selected to be part of the New York Independent Film Festival for its Short Documentary section!

Congrats to alum Preeti Mankar for making a doc that makes a difference.

MY BODY TO LOVE: Katie's Story (Fostering Healthy Relationships) Emmy award-winning filmmaker Preeti Mankar Deb presents the third in a series of short documentary films, "MY BODY TO LOVE: Katie's Story."

Great NewsDoc Film Festival last weekend. Students gave me the most wonderful January gift of pushing themselves and their stories beyond what I expected. Congratulations to all of you! And thanks to family, friends, faculty and alumni for joining us.

Congrats to alum Alex Tabet reporting for msnbc from New Hampshire tonight

First review:
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‘Family Treasures Lost and Found’ Starts Streaming Friday at Miami’s Jewish Film Festival
jewishpress.com

Excited it was called "VISUALLY STUNNING!."