NYU Trailblazers: “Building Community Locally and Globally Through Movie Making” with Prof. Sean Eve

Описание: NYU Trailblazers are TED Talk-style mini lectures from NYU's illustrious faculty. Don't miss this lecture from Sean Eve, “Building Community Locally and Globally Through Movie Making.”

This talk will discuss how assignments that involve multimedia exploration and, in particular documentary video development and production, help to connect students to communities of interest in New York and internationally. These projects offer unique opportunities for creative engagement while linking individuals and organizations around discrete projects that in many cases help distribute resources to communities in the US and elsewhere that badly need access to equipment and technical expertise which would otherwise be unavailable to them. These projects also give students outside of pre-professional, technical and creative training programs at NYU opportunities to investigate their expressive horizons.

Sean Eve is a writer, activist and socially engaged art maker. A Clinical Associate Professor at Liberal Studies at NYU, he is Creative Director of Global Media Lab, and co-founder of the Citizen Journalism Project being undertaken by NYU in partnership with Animated Ecologies, the sustainable media non-profit for which he is the Director. Author of a number of plays including: Paint, American Heart, By Land, and The Shopfront Plays: Some Poems for Ludlow Street, his most recent work, Bedside Manners(2023), co-written with Susan Moon, was produced as part of the International festival of Human Rights Winterfest, at the Bank, NYC. Production credits in film include, Shiva Baby (2020) with Katie Schiller, with whom he is currently producing “Just Justice” a documentary on Justice Roe Williams. He the Executive Producer of a number of forthcoming documentary films, “24/2”, about a group of Russian female artists coping with displacement and other changes in their lives brought on by the war with Ukraine, directed by Anna Filonenko; From Rage to Indifference, a documentary chronicling the unfolding ecological disaster in Bangladesh and its impact on youth culture there , directed by Tanjimul Islam; and “This is Where Tango Comes From”, an exploration of the emerging Afro-Argentinian activism in Buenos Aires, directed by Hunton Warren.