School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College

CONGRATULATIONS!! SUNYWide Film Festival 10 - List of Official Selections posted at sunywidefilmfestival.com

Announcing the 2020 Works-in-Progress Lab A partnership between Cucalorus & Working Films, the Works-in-Progress Lab (WiP) supports social justice documentaries being made by Black filmmakers. This immersive program gives artists a chance to engage distinct audiences for feedback and to create strategies for action related to their work and the social issue of their project. This year, five projects were selected for the WiP lab. We are beyond excited to share their project...Continue reading

Dear Cucalorians, Thursday June 11, we’re hosting a Community Conversation about Race with our friends from Leading Into New Communities (LINC). As we’ve been talking to each other and to many of you about the recent murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the protests here in Wilmington and our city’s history of racial violence, we felt the need to come together to share feelings, thoughts and plans for the future. Cucalorus believes that Black Lives Matter. Please joi...n us this Thursday, June 11th at 2pm on Zoom. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZYsfuGvqjMjGt2-BKbP7Cw8CVAiMjGuq We’ll have a group of friends and filmmakers to lead breakout groups where we will talk about the urgency we’re all feeling and the need to do more. If you want to partner with us to do this on a regular basis or if you’re doing something similar, please join us this Thursday and let us know. In addition, this Friday is the regular deadline to submit a film to Cucalorus. We feel it is vital that stories about people of color be told by directors of color & are dedicated to programming these films. This year, directors of color can submit for free by using this code: XtraSpeshBLLTX942020 on FilmFreeway here: https://filmfreeway.com/CucalorusFilmFestival Directors who identify as female can get a $10 discount by using this code: WOMENRULETHEWORLD2020CUC. Please send us your films! Your work as storytellers and truth-seekers is more important than ever and Cucalorus is dedicated to supporting both your creative and financial success as filmmakers. Stay tuned for announcements in the next two weeks about selections for our Works-in-Progress lab (a project development program dedicated to Black filmmakers, in partnership with Working Films) and our Filmed in NC Fund, which prioritizes funding for women and filmmakers of color. Yours, Team Cucalorus