Thursday, March 14th, 7:00pm – 8:30pm – Opening Night Panel Presentation

The Director Divide: A Discussion About Gender and Filmmaking
Special guests will include broadcast executive, programmer and producer, Laura Michalchyshyn, the producer/founder (along with Robert Redford) of Sundance Productions; Macaulay Distinguished Lecturer, Lee Quinby, writer, co-producer and co-director of True Delta, Official Selection: MountainFilm in Telluride 2012 (Lincoln Center premiere: October 19, 2012), and author of Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film (2010); and filmmaker, activist and Hunter professor,Tami Gold, co-director of RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope (2009), and producer, director of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Audience Award-winning, Every Mother’s Son (2004).

Sunday, March 17th, 6:00pm – 10:30pm – 5th Annual Gala Festival
Honoring & Awarding Macaulay/CUNY Filmmakers:

*Opening Reception
*Film Screenings
*Q & A with Winning Filmmakers
*After Party                                                                                                                                      *Live Jazz Performances by the Macaulay Musicians’ Collective