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A chance meeting at a Red Cross center with  a young couple who’d filmed Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a camcorder led two filmmakers to direct and produce Trouble the Water, an Academy Award-nominated documentary which screened to a packed house at Emerson Suites last month.

This fall you don't need to leave campus to see some exciting events and speakers. IC has plenty of distinguished visitors in the lineup, so get out your calendars and plan ahead!

Two Days with Trouble the Water Filmmakers

Indie filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal will be on campus September 15 and 16 to talk about the challenges of indie filmmaking and to show...

Writers rejoice! New York Times film critic A.O. Scott and Rolling Stone's politics reporter Matt Taibbi both stopped by IC earlier this month to dispense words of wisdom to IC students.

Taibbi was was hosted by the Park Center for Independent Media, and his lecture was aptly titled “Independent Media Amidst Conformist Media.”

Taibbi first...

Rory Kennedy, cofounder and president of Moxie Firecracker Films, is coming to Ithaca January 28 to give a lecture titled “The Camera Doesn’t Lie: Social Change through Documentary Filmmaking” in conjunction with the launch of the Park School’s new Center for Independent Media and a related conference. Passionate about human rights and...