Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Second Annual Big Mini-DV Festival focusing on the cultural, technological and creative impact of Mini-Digital Video, especially on third-world and globalization issues, will be held at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.

           Sponsored by the Campus's Media Arts Department, the event takes place on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8. The festival is free and open to the public.

           The festival will feature panels that examine the impact of this technology on video and film production, and feature screenings of the films discussed. On Friday, November 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., a panel on the "The Rise of Mini-DV: Social and Aesthetic Advances of the New Media" will discuss the possibilities of the Mini-DV for third-world filmmakers, especially Latin Americans; Mini-DV and the aesthetics of globalization in the West and in the developing world; and film vs. Mini-DV.

           Dennis Broe, the graduate coordinator at the Campus's Media Arts Department, will chair the panel. A writer for Social Justice, Newsday, The Boston Phoenix and film critic on WBAI, Broe will talk about "Global Journeys, Global Inequities and a New Aesthetic of Poverty in Michael Winterbottom's In This World." The critically acclaimed film about the transportation of immigrants will be shown on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Library Learning Center Room 122.

           Armond White, a film critic for The New York Press and the author of "The Resistance: 10 Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World" and "Rebel For the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur," will discuss "In Praise of Cinema: Godard's In Praise of Love."
"The Return of Third Cinema and the Turn to Fourth Cinema in Humberto Solas' Honey For Oshun" is the topic of discussion for Alison Fraunhar, a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara whose work centers on the social and aesthetic implications of third world cinema.

           Brian Ganter, who writes and teaches on transnational cultural and literary studies, will talk about "Beyond the Biopolitics of Globalization From Below: A Critique of 28 Days Later As An Antifesto Against the City."
For times, locations and more information, call Dennis Broe (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 more than 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.

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