International Film Festival Brings Google Seminar Series on Gender & Racial Gaps In Film & Tech

February 12, 2016

The Idea Center at Wolfson Campus, 315 N.E. Second Ave., building 8, 5th Floor, will host the Google Seminar Series on Gender & Racial Gaps In Film & Tech as part of the 33rd Annual Miami International Film Festival.

From March 5 through 9, the program will showcase 21 feature films at four different locations that have been directed by a woman. The films showcase this year’s most successful films in that category. Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson, a film festival veteran, will discuss and screen her feature memoir, Cameraperson, set at the world premiere in the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Other films showcased include Francesca Archibugi’s An Italian Name (Il nome del figlio), Liz Garbus’ Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, and Dawn Porter’s Trapped.

For more information, visit miamifilmfestival.com/google-initiative/ or call 305-237-FILM (3456).

Alejandra Zimmermann

Alejandra Zimmermann, 19, is a mass communications/journalism major in the Honors College at Kendall Campus. Zimmermann, a 2015 graduate of G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School, will serve as a staff writer in the briefing section of The Reporter during the 2015-16 school year. While at Braddock, she served as a section editor at the GHB Times. Zimmermann aspires to become a journalist for The New York Times.