Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus Hosts
Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Film Salon Series

Brooklyn, N.Y. — The 5^th annual Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Film Salon series explores "We Who Believe: Religion, Spirituality, Creativity & Country" at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Hosted by the Campus’s Media Arts Department, the event will take place on Thursday, April 1 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Spike Lee Screening Room. The suggested donation is $3; students and senior citizens, free.

This salon looks at the different types of passions and beliefs that drive us as individuals and communities, and what happens when people profess conflicting beliefs. The salons feature documentary, narrative, and experimental films and videos by teen, college, and independent filmmakers, presentations by film industry professionals and script analysis exercises.

The April salon will feature writer/director Caran Hartsfield, who will talk about getting initial recognition as a screenwriter by applying to competitions, festivals and fellowships. She received her Master of Fine Arts from New York University and has won numerous honors and awards for her short films, including second place at Cannes Film Festival, the Director’s Guild of America Award, the Martin Scorsese Fellowship, the Spike Lee Fellowship, the Warner Bros Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts Film Fellowship.

Film screenings include Hartsfield’s "Kiss it up to God" about a young woman who ‘accidentally’ fails to stand for the national anthem at a veteran memorial. Suddenly her outraged community questions her on her beliefs in State, Church, and Family, as the situation spins out of control.

Other featured films are "Life on Jupiter: The Story of Jens Nygaard, Musician," directed by Martin Spinelli; "I Refuse to Die: Koigi's Stuggle for a Free Kenya," directed by Ssanyu Kalibbala; and "Mermaids of Brooklyn," directed by Maddy Lederman.

For more information, call Rodney 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 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.