Woman of the Year Masterclass with Issa Rae
NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Fusion Film Festival presents: a conversation with the Fusion 2021 Woman of the Year, Issa Rae.
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On April 2nd at 8pm, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dean Allyson Green will present Issa Rae with Fusion Film Festival's 2021 Woman of the Year Award. Then, Issa Rae will be joined in conversation with journalist Lovia Gyarkye. This event is pre-recorded and will be available for a limited time to RSVP'd guests who will receive access via a password-protected Vimeo.
With her own unique flare and infectious sense of humor, Issa Rae first garnered attention for her award-winning web series and the accompanying New York Times best-seller, "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl." She created and stars in the hit HBO show, Insecure, for which she has received multiple Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominations. Rae made her film debut in the acclaimed drama, “The Hate U Give." In 2020, she starred in Netflix's "The Lovebirds," a romantic comedy and the HBO political-satire drama, "Coastal Elites."
Lovia Gyarkye is a writer based in New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vogue and The Nation. She was born in Ghana and is from New York's best borough — The Bronx.
The Fusion Film Festival is New York University’s premiere festival dedicated to celebrating women in film, television, and new media from student to icon. Founded in 2003 at Tisch School of the Arts by two students Emma Heald and Gina Abatemarco, Fusion has been passionately guided by Kanbar Professor Susan Sandler.
Fusion offers programming throughout the school year, culminating in a three day spring festival of screenings, industry panels, master classes, retrospectives, networking events, and competitions in fourteen categories all focused on women’s voices and work behind the camera. Fusion is proud to be an Allied Partner of the Sundance Institute’s Women’s Initiative. In the eighteen years since its launch, Fusion has attracted scores of accomplished artists and visionaries from across the industry including Lulu Wang, Eliza Hittman, Nia DaCosta, Melina Matsoukas, Reed Morano, Christine Vachon, Misha Green, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Kasi Lemmons, Lena Dunham, Janet Tamaro, Maria Zuckerman, Kelly Edwards, Amy Emmerich, Lauren Zalaznick to mentor and inspire the next generation of great storytellers.
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Join us for our other 2021 Fusion Film Festival events:
Fusion Film Festival 2021 Awards Ceremony on April 3rd at 8 pm
2021 Fusion Film Festival Showcase from March 27th to April 10th