December 21, 2024

Celebrate Short Film Day with GME's Program of Holiday Shorts in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

December 21, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

Today, December 21st, is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has therefore been declared Short Film Day in Germany. December 28th is also recognized as Short Film Day in the United States, in honor of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of moving pictures (all of which were shorts) at the Grand Café in Paris on December 28th, 1895. Celebrate Short Film Day this year by visiting the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, where a program of holiday-themed shorts, curated by the GME team, is now available to view.

In March, GME Celebrated Pioneering Women In Film

April 10, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

On the occasion of March being Women’s History Month, GME spotlighted numerous works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DVD, DSL, and/or Blu-Ray to the North American University Market. Most recently, GME has welcomed films by Ida Lupino, Alexandra Dean, and Suzan Pitt to our collection. Of course, many women have blazed trails in the world of cinema outside of being directors. One such woman, Adrienne Mancia, revolutionized the job of the film curator by championing the work of first-time, independent, and international filmmakers while working as a programmer at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s and ‘80s, thereby reshaping film culture in New York City (and beyond)

GME Pays Homage to Adrienne Mancia's Passion for Animation and Contributions to International Film Culture Coinciding With This Year's Animation First Film Festival

January 24, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

From Tuesday, January 23rd to Sunday, January 28th, the French Institute Alliance Française will present the seventh annual Animation First Film Festival. The program Best of Annecy 2023, which highlights work from last year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, will play on Friday, January 26th, at 9:45pm, at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall. The late Adrienne Mancia, a close friend and colleague of GME President Jon Gartenberg going back to the early 1970s, when they both worked in the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, was one of the first curators to introduce the Annecy Film Festival in North America. She was also a jury member in 1993.

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