Media Students: participate in this PC2012 poll

http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/MzA1NTg5MTU5

Extra Credit This Saturday: Come to New Media & Democracy Workshop

Extra credit for students who attend the New Media & Democracy panel this Saturday 9:30-11:15 and 12:45-2:15pm.  MPT 3130.  Part of the PC2012 Progressive Conference, in partnership with Urban Issues Institute and Councilman Ras Baraka’s office.

Hiring in the Digital Age

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/hiring-in-the-digital-age/262652/

Women Make Movies is hiring!

http://www.wmm.com/about/jobs.shtml

Exhibit opening tonight @ CWOW

Constructed Ambiguity Curated by Gary Garrido Schneider Opening Reception Thursday, September 20, 2012 6-8 pm Join us this Thursday for the opening reception of our fall exhibition Constructed Ambiguity, at cWOW’s Crawford Street Gallery, curated by Gary Garrido Schneider. This exhibition will include enigmatic artwork that cannot be easily resolved, that takes the familiar and makes it unfamiliar. The show features works that through shifts in scale or perspective, allow for poetic associations constructed images and imagined landscapes that fluctuate between the micro and macro, creating metaphors for the internal and external.Constructed Ambiguity explores the boundary between object and image, and conflates the authentic and artifice. The exhibition features works by artists:  Ben Altman | Trevor Amery | Ron Brown | Allison Gant | Bryan Kruger | Sarah Lynch | Brad Moore | Deborah Orloff | Ryan Roa | Matt Roberts | Kara L. Rooney | Anna Ryabtsov | Madelaine Shellaby | Leona Strassberg Steiner | Erika Velazquez | Hannah Whitaker

iPad for Production: free workshop 10/11

MEWshop Tech Talk: Filming & Editing Made Easy on the iPad – What are the Creative Possibilities?

FREE to attend – MEWshop will host its next Tech Talk on Thursday, October 11, 2012. MEWshop founder, Josh Apter, will put the iPad to the test using a number of iPad-adapted production and post-production tools, such as The Padcaster, FiLMiC Pro and more. We will see just how far production professionals can push the tablet. Doors open at 6pm. Kicks off at 6:45pm. There will be anamazing giveaway and a cocktail party after the event. Space is limited – please RSVP here.

~FUSION FILM FESTIVAL RECRUITING STAFF FOR 2013 FESTIVAL~

Please join NYU’s Fusion Film Festival TONIGHT at 6:30 PM in the Tisch first floor Lounge for a staff-recruiting event.

Meet the Co-Directors at the catered reception, and apply directly for available positions. The Festival is hiring staff in all areas including:

*programming

*development

*web design

*art department,

*submissions

*marketing

*sponsorship

*finance

 

This is an extraordinary opportunity to gain hands on experience at this award-winning student driven festival.

If you can’t attend tonight’s event, you can still apply on line.

For more information and to download applications: www.fusionfilmfestival.com

 

FUSION, NYU’s only student driven festival, is now entering its 10^th year of celebrating the work of women filmmakers.

 

Susan Sandler

Faculty Advisor

Fusion Film Festival

www.fusionfilmfestival.com

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Kanbar Institute of Film & TV

721 Broadway, 11th Floor

New York, NY 10003

Susan.Sandler@nyu.edu

212 998 1792

25 faces of indy film: tonight!

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/filmmaker-magazines-25-new-faces-of-indepedent-film/

• Wed, Sep 19 at: 8:00 PM

A special IFP Film Week showcases of work from members of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” of 2012:

The Gathering Squall (Hannah Fidell, 2012, 13 mins)

Doubles with Slight Pepper (Ian Harnarine, 2011, 15 mins)

Belly (Julia Pott, 2011, 8 mins)

3 episodes of The Slope (Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann, 2011/2012, 11 mins)

Extract from yet-to-premiere documentary by one of 2012′s “25 New Faces” (10 mins)

There will be a panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by Filmmaker magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay, with the attending filmmakers and Derek Cianfrance, director of the Academy Award-nominatedBlue Valentine and himself a “25 New Faces” alum from 2009.

Extra Credit opp for attending PC2012 conf this Satuday

Saturday September 22nd:
Workshops 9-3pm
ECC Main campus
2nd Flr Siegler

 

NYU internship: Spanish/Portuguese speaking

e-misférica, the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, has the following internship opportunities for the 2012-2013 academic year:

Editorial Intern: Editing and Translation (2)

The editorial/translation interns will assist in all aspects of the production of the journal. Duties will include communications with contributors, copy and image editing, proof reading, and translation. Advanced knowledge of spoken and written Spanish and/or Portuguese strongly preferred.

 

Production Intern (1)

The Web/HTML intern will assist the Media Coordinator with the production of the journal’s web platform.  Duties will also include the preparation and uploading of images and other content. Basic knowledge of digital imaging and HTML preferred. Prior experience is required for this position, including: experience using CMS to develop web content; multimedia content creation (image and video galleries); basic knowledge of XHTML, CSS; basic knowledge of desktop publishing; and basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. Some knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese preferred.

 

Internships require a regular schedule of 5-10 hours per week.

e-misférica is the biannual, peer-reviewed, online journal of the Hemispheric Institute, and is edited by Jill Lane and Marcial Godoy-Anativia.  Each issue is organized around a theme that explores the relationship between performance and politics in the Americas. The journal publishes scholarly essays and multimedia presentations by artists, activists, and intellectuals, as well as reviews of books, performances, and films.

The theme of our Winter 2013 issue is “Species” (with Gabriel Giorgi, Álvaro Fernández Bravo and Fermín Rodríguez as invited editors).

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume/CV to hemi.ejournal@nyu.edu outlining your interest in the position and relevant experience. Applications are due Wednesday, September 19, 2012.