News
May 2022
Lecturer Ben Snyder's film Allswell will screen at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
March 2022
Adjunct Dijana Jeleca speaks to News 12 about diversity and inclusion at the Oscars and industry.
February 2022
Brooklyn College Faculty Member Todd Chandler Creates Documentary Exploring Complexities of School Gun Violence and Prevention. Bulletproof premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Feb. 14.
March 2021
On May 4 at 11 a.m., Prof. Alexandra Juhasz invites Stephen Winter and Vivian Kleiman to join the students of FILM 2120 The Nonfiction Film for a conversation titled Black Gay Men on Film that will explore how the history and present of documentary aligns with the (in)visibility of Black people. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) and Jason and Shirley (Stephen Winter, 2015)—creative, expansive, beautiful films focusing on gay black male oppression, community, and liberation will be the focus.
Takeshi Fukunaga joined Ava DuVernay, Heperi Mita, and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers for Dream On: New Cinema, New Voices!, part of Berlinale Talents, the Berlin International Film Festival's talent development programme for the world's top 200 emerging filmmakers and series creators.
February 2021
Destiny Blackwell '21 was awarded the Excellence in our Midst Award from the Women's and Gender Studies program for fall 2020.
December 2020
Recent Brooklyn College Magazine articles:
- Rooted, but Reaching for the Stars - After directing a video for Grammy Award–winning artist Ciara, senior film student Annie Bercy is on a path to follow her dreams.
- Keeping It Reel - Faculty and alumni mentors, internship programs, and a new executive director at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema are helping students to polish their soft skills for careers in a notoriously tough industry.
November 2020
Read the review of Takeshi Fukunaga's Ainu Mosir in The New York Times, published on Nov. 17, 2020.
English trailer and poster for Film Department alum Takeshi Fukunaga's Ainu Mosir are here! It's coming to Netflix in US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on November 17!
October 2020
Suliya Gisele is the 2020 National Board of Review Student Award Winner for her 2020 thesis film, Chrysanthemum.
BC Film Alumni Jennifer Zarzuela produced this NY Times segment for Megan Thee Stallion.
Film Department documentary student Nicholas Sossi Romano as well as alumni Eric Straight and Tim Chachibaia will have their work featured at DOC-NYC, November 11-19.
August 2020
Annie Bercy, a current student in the BC Film Department, recently released a music video which is creating a stir with its impressive and powerful message.
Alumni Yesenia Torres '06, is now directing videos for the MTA, addressing accessibility issues for the disabled.
April 2020
Congratulations to Film Department alum Takeshi Fukunaga, whose second feature film Ainu Mosir was awarded a Special Jury Mention as part of the International Narrative Competition at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
March 2020
Takeshi Fukunaga, a graduate of the BC Film program, will premiere his second feature film Ainu Mosir at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival as part of the International Narrative Competition.
February 2020
Astrid Perez’s thesis fiction film, winner of multiple awards at our 2019 Brooklyn College Film Festival, is currently at the Miami Film Festival.
Ali Reza Khoshkjan’s thesis documentary is now live / broadcast on CUNY-Commons, and CUNY-TV. It won the Best Editing Award at the 2019 Brooklyn College Film Festival.
