Recent Award Winners and Student Activities, Spring 2008
Andrew Filippone Jr. (Studies in Film Form and Aesthetics) will be exhibiting his documentary film on April 20 at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. The film is called “Happy Monday.” Filippone describes it as a “documentary film object” because it’s a film that’s left the screen and become a tangible and physical thing; it is essentially a large light box that audiences walk up to and linger over. This documentary has been previously shown at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (August 2007) and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (October 2007). Information on the UnionDocs exhibit is here: http://www.uniondocs.org/blog/happy-monday/ Information and photographs of “Happy Monday” can be found here: http://web.mac.com/afilipponejr/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonday/Â
Rebecca Journey (International Politics and Humanitarian Development) received the Amelia Ottinger Award for Excellence in Public Speaking at the Harvard University National Model United Nations.
Heather McCown (Partnership for Social Justice) received John Jay College’s first Keith L.T. Wright Service Award for her work at John Jay on Darfur Day, 2006) and her community work on reinstating the ferry in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Jared Rodriguez (History of the Americas) has just received both the Mellon Mays Fellowship and a Kaye Scholarship. For the Mellon Mays Fellowship, he hopes to travel to Brazil this summer for a research project on “Black Political Consciousness in a Post-Dictatorship Society.” Rodriguez is also a professional photographer who has had his first book cover published (”Road from ar Ramadi”).
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