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New School student, Aya Jaffar’s film for course, Poetics of Witnessing. Read more

Film by Ines Gerber and Marie Bakke   In 1935 a film entitled Housing Problems depicted the slums in London.  It’s considered the first documentary with direct testimonies from working class tenants about their living conditions.  They talked about small rooms (too small to swing a cat), crumbling walls, rotting staircases, sagging roofs, no running water, insanitary… Read more

Youth conservationist Celia Ho talks about her campaign to raise awareness in Hong Kong and China about the global ivory trade and the consequences for elephant populations. The Disappearing Elephants Project Approximately 100 elephants are killed every day for their ivory Today there are between 470,000 and 690,000 African elephants left. Current poaching kills 25,000-35,000… Read more

In collaboration with Luta pela Paz, New School graduate students worked with youth ages 11-14 to create a video letter about their lives and their community. New School students led workshops twice a week in Complexo da Maré, a large favela community in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. Over the course of two months, youth… Read more

In June and July 2015 six students from the New School supported the creation of the web documentary “Ilha Grande: Each beach an island. Each island a story”. The web doc tells the stories of an incredible island in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with the goal of encouraging community-based tourism that shows consideration for… Read more

November 20, 2015 [PHOTO GALLERY] In June and July of 2015, a team of 20 students from The New School and PUC (Pontificia Universidade Catolica) participated in a human rights media field program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the direction of professor Peter Lucas. This experience was part of the IFP (International Field Program) run… Read more

November 20, 2015 Fifteen New School students traveled to Rio de Janiero this past summer as part of the International Field Program to work on field based media projects based on human rights. One of these projects, The Rules, involved students taking to the streets of Rio and asking one simple question to the locals. If you… Read more