Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

An in depth look at Feirstein's very 1st graduating class courtesy of BC/Stories. This very brave group of students helped us bring this school to life and they've set the bar very high with their amazing works. (Pardon us while we #dote). Many thanks to Brooklyn College for this incredible piece. http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu//b/feirsteins-first-class.php

Watch the trailers for the European Film Awards Short Film candidates! "The European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announce that the list of short film candidates for the European Film Awards is now complete. The EFA Short Film Candidates are selected in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a candidacy in the short film category of... the European Film Awards. The participating festivals will now nominate five short films from this list. Afterwards, the 3,800 EFA Members film professionals from all over Europe will vote for the overall winner that will be presented at the 33rd European Film Awards Ceremony." https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu//selection-short-film-cu See more

"Galerie reached out to five eminent video artists and filmmakersincluding a few who have directed their own feature-length filmsto select the movies that have inspired their practice. The choices span periods and genres, but they are all noteworthy for their storytelling, technical mastery, and fascinating perspectives. Read on to find the insightful choices of Alex Prager, Isaac Julien, Shirin Neshat, Pipilotti Rist, and Mika Rottenberg."

Black Perspectives is the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Check out the two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College funded by the Social Science Research Council grant initiative for research on inequality and the pandemic. Despite ample recognition that COVID-19 is hitting Black communities, immigrant communities, poor Americans, and undocumented people disproportionately hard, hearing from young people in these communities is exceedingly rare. This space has been made for students to analyze and contextualize what was happening to them and those around them this summer. These autoethnographies have now been deposited at the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn College COVID-19 archive. https://www.aaihs.org/tag/autoethnographies/

Professor Julia Solomonoff's highly anticipated road movie "Thirst" is a portrait of Argentina. It will be unveiled next week in the 2020 Biarritz Latin American Festival. https://variety.com//nobodys-watching-julia-solomonoff-th/

#studentspotlight "Feirstein is a young institution with everything to prove, where creativity and production take center stage, and that's perfectly synonymous with my own place in the world." -Vito Rowlands, 2nd Year Feirstein Directing Student... Vito is an Antwerp and New York based writer, director, producer, and professor. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film at Columbia University in New York. He has previously taught in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Ghent, and Antwerp, and he is also a film instructor at the Brooklyn based film non-profit Mono No Aware. His producing debut, C. Craig Patterson’s ‘A GIRL’ (2018), was selected for the Austin Film Festival, and his Feirstein Production Workshop 1 MOS film, ‘INTO THE SILVER ETHER’ will be premiering internationally at the upcoming Raindance Film Festival (2020) as part of their International Shorts program. Vito works primarily on celluloid and is currently developing his first feature film. We asked about his experience at Feirstein and what made Vito want to pursue a career as a Director. Link to the full interview here: http://feirstein.blog.brooklyn.edu/spotlight-vito-rowlands/ Vito’s top 5 films at the moment: - The Smiling Madame Beudet (La Souriante Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, 1923 - Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943 - Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambety, 1973 - Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986 - The River (He liu), Tsai Ming-liang, 1997 . . . #feirsteinfilm #feirsteinschool #sceneatfeirstein #makeascene #seefgsc #filmstudent #filmschool #makemovies #feirstein #gradschool #mfa #film #brooklyncollege #cuny #madein_ny #mononoaware

We've worked very hard to be able to reopen safely, and on a very limited and socially distanced basis. We are excited to be back in effect so students are able to get their projects done using the technology available on-site. #staysafe #masksmandatory #inthistogether News 12 Brooklyn Brooklyn College The City University of New York

We made MovieMaker’s list of the Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada 2020! #topnotch equipment and facilities!

"Terry, who owns the motel (the shooting location), very kindly offered to let anyone on the crew stay at the Silver Sands and ride out the pandemic for as long as they wanted. About a third of our crew members, mostly the single Brooklyn types, took him up on the offer and stayed for over two months. Five months into quarantine, one of them is still there (in what we’re now officially calling an Artist-in-Residency). #thatssobrooklyn

Sound Side Film Festival is an evening of independent films and multimedia experiences on the North Fork Thu. August 6th, 2020, a one-night-only event bringing you independent films and multimedia experiences that explore our relationship to place. SFSS is a Drive-in for pandemic times. All proceeds go to the local Long Island food bank CAST. SFSS is produced by CAST and Wild Jelly Live, a filmmaking cooperative run by Zoe Fleer ‘19 and Alley Leinweber ‘20, two filmmakers... who met at Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Professor Paula Massood is their programming advisor and they have many amazing Feirstein students and professors participating in SFSS. Films include Bluepoint by Leinweber and Fleer, as well as submissions from Jess Hock, Rashan Castro, Billy Kent, and more. Tribeca Film Institute Sloan is an official backer of the project enabling SFSS to incorporate multimedia immersions that draw audience members into the world of the short film. Get your tickets for Sound Side Film Fest here! https://www.soundsidefilmfest.com/ ***** #sceneatfeirstein#makeascene#feirsteinfilm#feirsteinschool#filmstudent#filmschool#madein_ny#brooklyncollege#cuny#nywift#womeninfilm #femalefilmmakers #behindthescenes See more

A legend has passed. ALAN PARKER’s films inspired me for many many years -- MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, BIRDY, ANGELA’S ASHES, ANGEL HEART, THE COMMITMENTS, FAME, PINK FLOYD’s THE WALL, SHOOT THE MOON .. and on and on. Tonight, in Sir Parker’s honor, my sons and I watched one of his best; MISSISSIPPI BURNING. The storytelling is extra-ordinary, as old vs new culture is contrasted; in the fight for civil rights in 60’s Mississippi as well as in the policing methods utilized to bring about justice. RIP ALAN PARKER, we are fewer. Richard Gladstein, Executive Director - Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

"Racquel Gates and Rebecca Prime have been chosen as 2020 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...both projects involve issues revolving around movies and their depictions of the Black community."

Hooray!!! ICE rescinds rule banning foreign students from online only courses during COVID-19 crisis!!!

Major fall film festivals unite as they cope with on-line events our very own advisor Joanna Vicente is head of Toronto International film festival (TIFF)