Hunter Students Head to Morocco for Marrakech/Tribeca

Filmmaker Exchange

Date: October 18, 2005
Contact: Meredith Halpern, (meredith.halpern@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4068

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, co-chairs of the Tribeca Film Institute, Madelyn Wils, Institute president, and Peter Scarlet, Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director, today announced that the Tribeca Institute and Festival have joined forces with the Foundation of the Marrakech International Film Festival to create a pioneering filmmaking workshop in Morocco this fall. Eight Hunter College film students and eight Moroccan film students will participate in the Marrakech/Tribeca Filmmaker Exchange, to be held in Marrakech November 6 - 20, in conjunction with the Fifth Marrakech International Film Festival, which will run November 11-19.

One of America's most honored film directors, Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Good Fellas) will be joined by Iran's Abbas Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?, Close-Up, The Taste of Cherry), in offering master classes which will be among the program's core offerings. They will be joined by actor Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat, Angels in America, Broken Flowers), and filmmakers from both the US and Morocco in presenting a series of events which will enable aspiring filmmakers from both countries to work together and learn from each other as they grapple with the intricacies of the filmmaking process.

The eight Hunter College students participating in this event are majors in the Department of Film & Media Studies’ undergraduate film program and MFA program in Integrated Media Arts. Hunter Associate Film Professor Mick Hurbis-Cherrier is serving as the principle curriculum designer for the program and will also be one of the workshop instructors.

About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.

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