FOCUS - Filmmakers of Color United in Spirit

Friday, January 30, 2009

Medicine for Melancholy - In Theaters Today!

If you're in the city or in a city that's playing it, go check out Barry Jenkins' Medicine for Melancholy. He screened it last night at Columbia and it was delightful. It's a fresh film from a very talented young director.

Barry was joined by the film's star Wyatt Cenac who had a very humorous take on the film's development. Film Chair Jamal Joseph facilitated the Q&A.

Thank you so much to Mary Gillen and Jon Kauffman of the Carla Kuhn Speaker series for making the screening possible.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Faded Glory: Oscar Micheaux and the Pre-War Black Independent Cinema-Conference Schedule

The complete schedule for the conference can be found here.

Attending the workshops is free and open to the public. The screenings are $7.00. HOWEVER, FOCUS members will be included on a special guest list. Please RSVP for the screenings by emailing info@columbiafocus.org

The full list of screenings (beyond the conference) can be found here.

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FOCUS Lunch with Oscar Micheaux Panelists

The FOCUS Fellows are pleased to announce that the members of FOCUS have been invited to attend a luncheon with the scholars of the Oscar Micheaux conference being held at Columbia's campus on February 6th. (The second day of the conference is held at Lincoln Center on February 7th.)

The luncheon will take place at Amsterdam Cafe at 1207 Amsterdam Ave. (btwn 119th and 120th) at NOON. All are welcome.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Columbia Black and Latino Grad Mixer

On January 30th, 2009, the Columbia Black and Latino Graduate Coalition will hold a Campus-Wide mixer from 7pm to 10pm at TALAY Restaurant Lounge, 701 West 135th

Street at 12th Ave New York, NY

The Black and Latino Graduate Coalition is an organization focused on joining students from the graduate programs at Columbia University to foster cross-disciplinary partnerships and cultivate an environment of social cohesiveness within our University community.

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