Alumnus and filmmaker discusses path to success

by Hadiya Weaver

On Wednesday, February 21, alumnus Benny Douglas, professionally known as Benny Boom visited Temple University to screen the film he directed: All Eyez on Me, a biopic on the legendary rapper, actor and poet Tupac Shakur.

The event was held at the Temple Performing Arts Center, and included the screening, Q&A session, and a reception.  

Time and Dreams by alumnus Mort Jordan (TFM ‘75) is among twenty-five films selected in 2017 for the National Film Registry.

Alumna Judith Adong (MFA '15) was selected as one of the twenty-one of the TED Global Fellows 2017. Ugandan director and playwright Adong creates art that promotes social change and provokes dialogue on issues from LGBTQ rights to war crimes. She is also the artistic director of Silent Voices Uganda, a not-for-profit performing arts organization. As a Fellow, Adong will deliver a talk at TED Global this August in Tanzania. 

Class Warfare (The Stress of Her Regard), a music video directed by alumnus Ilya Simakov (MFA '12), has been accepted to the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival. 

Described as an abstract meditation on dread and disempowerment, the festival's screening will take place on Saturday, March 25 at 7:00 PM in University of Michigan's Lorch Hall.