by Chris Holmes | Sep 23, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
There’s so much I could say about Claire Gleitman the woman, the colleague, the director, and the Dean, as she has been invaluable to my career and my happiness in this job. Her friendship has been an unwavering goodness in my life. But tonight, it is Claire’s...
by David N. DeVries | May 9, 2023 | Commentary
South Butler, New York, is a forgotten byway in American history. Its moment of notoriety came and went. Now it is just a crossroad hamlet struggling to matter like so many other such places in rural America. But once it did matter. In the decades before the Civil...
by News Desk | Dec 13, 2022 | News
The Izzy Award will celebrate its 15th year this spring, and nominations are officially open for work produced during the calendar year 2022. The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College (PCIM) will again grant this honor — named after legendary journalist...
by Susan C. W. Abbotson | Sep 29, 2022 | Commentary
It is clear that the way people react to Arthur Miller’s 1949 play “Death of a Salesman” is as unpredictable as the play itself. Sympathies are pulled in every direction. With the play currently revived for the sixth time on Broadway, let us take a moment to think...
by Elizabeth Miller and Patricia R. Zimmermann | Aug 25, 2022 | Commentary
We are living in one of the most exciting times in the history of independent documentary. The entire field is undergoing massive shifts in form, interface, technology, conceptualization, use, and topics. Documentary is at a turning point of radical disruption. This...