Screening

The 2019 Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival takes place on Friday, October 4, 2019 at Cinemapolis, from 5-7pm. We will be screening two films, Transfinite (feature-length) and Afterearth (short).

Transfinite is a sci-fi omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive. The director, Neelu Bhuman, will join us via Skype for a Q&A following the film.

October 15, 2019 | Emerson Suites | 8:30am – 12:30pm

Ithaca College will be holding our annual Point of Dispensing (POD) for all faculty, staff, and students to receive a free flu vaccination. The POD is an important part of the Ithaca College emergency preparedness plan. This once-a-year event is a very convenient opportunity for all Ithaca College community members to receive a free flu shot in a minimal amount of time.

Participants are typically in and out of the POD in less than 5 minutes!

Screening in observance of World AIDS Day
The inspirational story of everyday heroes, nurses and caregivers who took extraordinary action to comfort, protect and care for the patients of the first AIDS ward unit in the United States. They built Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital and created care practices based in humanity and holistic well-being during a time of great uncertainty. A remarkable and bittersweet story of courage and compassion.

Presented in collaboration with OURstory is not HIStory, with panel discussion following the screening
A black, straight preacher and a white, lesbian activist form an unusual bond as they seek to find the intersection between the Black Civil Rights and the LGBTQ Equality movements.

The little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being gay or lesbian. In 1953, President Eisenhower declared them a threat to national security and unfit for government service. Over the next four decades, tens of thousands of government workers lost their jobs for no reason other than their sexual orientation. But the actions of the government had an unintended effect. They inadvertently helped ignite the gay rights movement.

In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine. Documented chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his public struggle as an immigration reform activist/provocateur; and his journey inward as he reconnects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in 20 years.

Join seniors in the Roy H. Park School of Communications for their end of the year senior film thesis screening.

Refreshments will be provided. Free and open to the public.