Brooklyn, N.Y. — In the month of Easter and Passover, and with war upon us, the Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Film Salon explores "The Ordering of the Universe: Religion, Spirituality, & Creativity" at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Sponsored by the Media Arts Department, the event will take place on Thursday, April 3, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Spike Lee Screening Room (LLC 122). The suggested donation is $5; free to students and senior citizens.

The guest speaker is filmmaker Macky Alston, who will talk about planning and funding documentaries. Founder of River Films and producer/director of the film "Questioning Faith," which follows the lives of a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim, he is the Auburn Seminary's consulting director of the Media & Religion Project.

The salon includes a script analysis exercise, as well as documentary and narrative films and videos by teen, college, and independent filmmakers, including "Jai Yen" by ProTV youth producer Daniel Howard; "Hillbilly Eyes" by Adam Feinstein; "Gas Up & Save" by NYU film student Anne Pas; and "Move" by Antonia March.

Future film salons: "Animation: Let's Get Reel 3" on Thursday, May 1 and "Still Out There: Sexuality & Relationship" on Thursday, June 5. The goal of the salon series is to promote media literacy, awareness of career opportunities in the film industry and intergenerational learning.

Other Upcoming Film Events

• The Brooklyn Arts Council 37th Annual International Film & Video Festival will be held on Thursday, April 24, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Spike Lee Screening Room. Two Media Arts students will have work featured: Fleur Amesz's short self-reflective narrative, "Hollywood" and a 30-minute documentary, "I Refuse to Die" by Ssanyu Kalibbala.
• On Saturday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Spike Lee Screening Room, the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Chapter of Links Film Festival will be held. Organized by Brooklyn Arts Council and Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, this festival celebrates the accomplishments of African-American women filmmakers in the growing independent film market.

Both events are free and open to the public.

For more information, call Rodney K. Hurley at (718) 488-1052.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.