A Seed & Spark campaign was launched by Gerri Weinberger, current Media Management student who will be graduating in December 2019 and Susanna Stahlmann for Borderline Coffee, a short film geared towards ending the stigma around Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The film follows a woman, Miranda, who is glued
Doc Studies ’18 Alumna Joy Ernanny recently licensed footage from her documentary, “Unveil”, to the BBC. The footage was used for a BBC piece about the hijab-friendly salon where “Unveil” was shot. The BBC did a brief story about the salon and with its wide
Dasha Kova, Media Studies + Media Management Certificate ’17 and Media Studies Student Service Award Winner ’17, was recently featured in Bushwick Daily for the work she’s doing that is aimed at changing mainstream media. She also had the opportunity to produce a music video for Salt Cathedral. During the production,
Two students from the MS Media Management program, Eliya Raza Shamsi and Ponvishal Chidambaranathan have launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund a digital production house. With this initiative, they want to tell stories of rural communities in India and Pakistan through authentic and more representative
Media Studies alumni Alex Campolo, who was also a thesis advisee, is currently finishing his PhD at NYU’s Department Media Culture & Communication. Campolo is set to begin his postdoc position at The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. THE STEVANOVICH INSTITUTE ON THE FORMATION
SMS student Macha Rose was a featured director on Bronxnet. She did a live TV interview about her work and advice for young directors. The video can be found here: https://www.bronxnet.org/watch/videos/4874/
Our Media Studies Grad – Jamila Daniel, just received her first writing credit on a major, episodic television show, “Chicago Fire” on NBC-TV. She’s been out in LA for the last several years making an impact in network television as a woman of color, and
Andrea Avidad, a Grad Student enrolled in the MA Media Studies program, is currently writing her thesis under the supervision of Lana Lin. She’s has been selected to present her thesis at the Western University in Canada. The conference is titled ‘INWARD OUTWARD: (DE)CONSTRUCTING EXPERIENCES
Current Student Cristina Müller’s (MA Media Studies + Doc Studies Alumna) short documentary film “Nine Letters” was selected for two great international festivals this month: DOC NYC and LIDF-London! About the film: The sensation of living in New York, away from home, is shared by
On opening night of the 10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, 6 filmmakers and 6 scientists were randomly paired and sent off into the city to begin filmmaking. The only prompt offered to each pair was to focus their film on the theme:
Current M.A. Student Luz Zamora‘s film “De Colores” was selected for the prestigious DOC NYC festival. Luz produced the film when she was a student in the Documentary Certificate Program. “De Colores” will premiere in the festival’s selection of work by and about women called, “The Future
New School Media Studies Alumni co-founds project to share and support the work of freelance journalists covering conflicts worldwide Danish-born journalist Anne Alling (28) is a 2012 Media Studies Alumni now covering conflicts and humanitarian issues worldwide for TV, radio and print media. Parallel
Arts and Food NYC, created as a Media management capstone by TNS Alumni Dayna Bloom is now hosting Influencer events around the city, partnering with brands and restaurants. Uupcoming events are being hosted at 5 Napkin Burger, Tommy Bahama and Timna. Arts and Food NYC is also
On our celebratory boat ride after wrapping up 10 days of work with 7 museums in Saint Petersburg, Russia for “Fact & Fiction”, the 2017 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums exhibition. The team from America is Fan Chen, Diana Khong, Tessi Öhrvall, Jess Richmond and
People who arrive in the United States face many shocks when it comes to cultural differences. The food tastes awful. There’s a gap in relations between young and old. Even people who look similar to these immigrants—same skin color, same hair, living in the same
Sidewalking is an intimate and relatable journey that takes a look at sidewalks as spaces where people connect to the world through the eyes of anonymity created by TNS Alum Maria Gabriela Torres. This film is the director’s personal reflection on how a simple daily
This project was developed during Ramu Dhara’s Media Design (NMDS 5008) course, which until that point had been Alyssa Aquino’s first creative class. The goal was to make the presentation somber, while in some way hopeful. In the end, she prefers audiences to make their
NONHUMANS NYC was developed by students Jeffrey Marino, Mariann Asayan, and Rami Saab in Professor Shannon Mattern’s Urban Intelligence (NMDS5676) course. NONHUMANS | NYC guides the user in a directed experience ‘connecting’ with three iconic NYC animals. The process of bridging the experiential gap is
Miss New York is a web series about two Scandinavian girls spending the summer in New York. The series tackles subjects such as love, sex, friendship, and becoming an adult. A major part of the series is that the characters are very active and present
Background: This 360 video project was developed in the Writing and Directing: Script to Screen (NMDS 5254) with Media Studies Program Director Vlad Nikolic by Macha Rose. Students were expected to write a full script and develop two scenes to be filmed. Due to the flexibility of this traditional
In Transit: above and below This work was developed in Filmmaking Studio 1 (NFLM 3660) with Professor Kathleen Rugh. In Transit: above and below is a stop-motion short film recording of filmmaker Erica Sheu’s almost-two-hour route from home to school. It is also a portrait of
Background: This project was developed in Transforming Data (NMDS 5517) with part time faculty Jonathan Thirkield by Kelsie Potter. The project is a visualization of Captain American comic book sales coded in p5.js, and includes an interactive timeline of comic book volumes. When the volumes are clicked,
Bitten This work was developed in Writing and Directing: Script to Screen (NMDS 5254) with Media Studies Program Director Vlad Nikolic. Bitten is a story about a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and her struggle to find her inner strength to get her life
Die-O-Rama Background: This work was developed in Writing and Directing Script to Screen (NMDS 5254) with the Media Studies Program Director Vlad Nikolic. Die-O-Rama is a treatment for a full length horror comedy based in the world of New York art schools. In addition to
Created by Altay Yildiz, a Master of Science in Media Management graduate, Formar Art bridges the gap between technology and fine art, giving artists a new medium through Augmented Reality mobile technology. Formar Art serves and strengthens New York art galleries by becoming a centralized mobile
The Impact of “India’s Daughter” on Indian Sons Background: This project was developed in the Media Management track classes, Audience Research (NMDS 5017), with Part-time Assistant Professor Lahuna Ganguly and and in and Media Ethics (NMDM 5312) with Charles Warner. In this class MS student Trishala
AWOL is an augmented reality platform that provides easy implementation of content, immersive city tours and virtual pop up shops to create site specific experiences. Created by Jelena Gregov and Moreno Belic, both MA Media Studies ’17 graduates, the project has been accepted by the
Background: This project was developed in the Media Studies Production track class, Audience Research (NMDS 5017), withPart-time Assistant Professor Lahuna Ganguly. In this class, MA student, Cynthia Francois developed a research proposal to further investigate wether social media, business marketing trends, or internalized racism are to
Between the Tweets is a Capstone project created by Carlo Dellaverson, a member of the Media Management Class of 2017. Carlo received the annual Outstanding Capstone award for this project at the department graduation recognition ceremony. His award-winning thesis identifies a new approach to teaching
Promotional image for Swan Song provided by I. Myakotin This documentary project, by class of 2016 student, Igor Myakotin follows, Van, a 86-year-old carpenter from Brooklyn who dreams of sailing the world until he dies and swims with the fishes for eternity. The project