The Gas Station Attendant (Film & Talk)
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a special screening and Q&A featuring The Gas Station Attendant.
Co-Sponsored & Special Events
Tinx Chan on Cinematography
Join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a discussion with cinematographer Tinx Chan.
Across Continents: Transnational Asian/American Perspectives (Fall 2026 Seminar)
Using a variety of literary and other texts, some referenced in R Benedito Ferrão’s Across Continents: Writing Goans, Making Worlds (2026), this six-session seminar will examine representations of displacement, post/coloniality, and transnationalism.
Christine Choy Retrospective
A fall retrospective of nine preserved films by Christine Choy, the pioneering documentarian who spent five decades filming the movements and communities left out of the record.
2026 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 49th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: an intimate connection of hope and solidarity between a Filipino steward and a Black welder in 1940s Brooklyn, a Sikh MMA fighter navigating the balance between faith and the brutal world of combat sports, a golden but challenged friendship between a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl in Jerusalem, and an immigrant woman examining her past, identity, and regrets in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death.
Understanding Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent: Global Perspectives and Emerging Normative Frameworks
This seminar brings together scholars, practitioners, and leaders to examine how inherited social hierarchies and descent-based discrimination perpetuate exclusion across diverse communities worldwide.