Special Events

The MFA Org will host a talk with writer, director, and Rutgers-Camden graduate Robert Pulcini, who works with his wife on film and TV projects. Register for the talk on Zoom here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Watch together in person in a live broadcast on campus … Continue reading MFA Org Presents Local & Visiting Writers: Robert Pulcini…

Tuesday, November 16, 4-5 PM via Zoom About Toni Kalem: Director, writer and character actress Toni Kalem was born in the suburbs of New Jersey.   Her first prominent part was in “The Wanderers” (1979), as Despie. She’s also done soap opera and TV work, and is best known for her excellent performance as Angie Bonpensiero, … Continue reading Screenwriter and director Toni Kalem talks about adaptation, novels and films – November 16…

This event has been postponed. New date and details are coming soon.  Join us in April as we talk with Robert Pulcini, CCAS Alumnus ‘1989.   5:00 p.m. April 1, 2020 Rutgers–Camden Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room   Robert Pulcini’s writing and directing credits include the movies “American Splendor,” “The Nanny Diaries,” and the forthcoming supernatural … Continue reading POSTPONED: April 1: A Talk with Screenwriter and Director Robert Pulcini…

JOE GANGEMI is a novelist and film and television writer-producer.  Among his films are Stonehearst Asylum, starring Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, and Ben Kingsley, Go With Me, starring Anthony Hopkins, and Wind Chill, starring Emily Blunt.  He co-created and executed produced the Amazon Studios original comedy, Red Oaks, starring Paul Reiser, Jennifer Grey, and Richard Kind, which ran for three seasons. Gangemi … Continue reading An Evening with Joe Gangemi…

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Wife, and other books. She was the guest editor for The Best American Short Stories 2017, and her short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The Best American Short Stories, and The Pushcart Prize. Wolitzer is a member of the MFA faculty at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded … Continue reading Writers in Camden: Meg Wolitzer…

Friday, November 16, 2018 7 p.m. Fine Arts, Room 110 Join us for a viewing of Sickies Making Films, edited, co-written and co-produced by Rutgers–Camden’s Robert A. Emmons. Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor films and asks why? We find reasons both absurd and surprisingly understandable. Using the Maryland Board of Censors (1916-1981) as … Continue reading Film Viewing – Sickies Making Films, by Robert A. Emmons…

Professor Emily Marker invites you to the “History 378” weekly screenings of European films!  Thursdays at 6 PM, FA 110.  Sept 6 Casablanca (dir. Curtiz, US, 1942) Sept 13 Man with a Movie Camera (dir. Vertov, USSR, 1929) Sept 20 M (dir. Lang, Germany, 1931) Sept 27 Pépé le Moko (dir. Duvivier, France, 1937) Oct … Continue reading Film Screenings – Fall 2018 schedule…

Wednesday, February 21 6 PM – 8 PM with reception to follow Writers House 305 Cooper Street Camden, NJ 08102 Sophia Kruz is an EMMY® Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker. Her work has been broadcast nationally and screened at film festivals and museums around the world. Her most recent documentary, LITTLE STONES, follows four … Continue reading An evening with documentary filmmaker Sophia Kruz…

Thursday, Dec. 7, 4:30 – 5:30 Penn 401 Followed by reception and pizza! Chad Damiani (CCAS 95) has been producing and writing for TV and film for the last 14 years, along with his writing partner JP Lavin. They have sold four pilots to network television over the last five years and their script “Kamikaze … Continue reading December 7: An Evening with producer and screenwriter Chad Damiani (CCAS 95)…