Excited to have organized again and to announce the 2019 Women in Film & Media Summit at Emerson College taking place on Monday, November 18th from 10:45am-10pm, panels with esteemed female talent: writer/director Nicole Dorsey; writer/director Maryam Keshavarz; art director/production designer & Emerson College alumna Devynne Lauchner; Amazon Studios executive Latasha Gillespie; composer Germaine Franco; producer/distributor Karin Chien; artist/filmmaker Michèle Stephenson; producer & director of MIT Open Doc Lab Sarah Wolozin; creative producer & Emerson faculty Linda Reisman; transdisciplinary artist/filmmaker & Emerson faculty Rashin Fahendej; artist/animator & Emerson faculty Anya Belkina; filmmaker & Emerson faculty Julia Halperin; filmmaker & Emerson faculty Rae Shaw and scholar/artist & Emerson faculty Dr. Sarah Zaidan. The event is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts; student co-curricular group Women in Motion led by President Susana Obando & Vice President Anna Abbanat; the Office of the President and the Office of Academic Affairs. Culminating the day with an Emerson-only screening of the 2019 TIFF premiered feature film, BLACK CONFLUX, with writer/director Nicole Dorsey in attendance. All PANELS are open to the public! @BlackConfluxFilm is a free non-ticketed Emerson community-only & invited guests screening. #2019ECWomeninMediaSummit For more info visit http://web.emerson.edu/wimfilmsummit/ or contact me at c_kotz_cornejo@emerson.edu
