Pam Sporn
Pam Sporn is a film maker and teacher. Her documentaries have won several film festival awards.
Career
Her work has covered such topics as Cuban cigar rollers, an annual dance, and the story of a family that emigrated from Cuba to the United States, as well as "homelessness, teen pregnancy and police brutality."[1][2]
Films
- "Disobeying Orders: GI Resistance to the Vietnam War"
- "Cuban Roots, Bronx Stories"
- "Con El Toque de la Chavetta" ("With the Stroke of the Chavetta")
- "Recordando El Mamoncillo" ("Remembering the Mamoncillo Tree")
Awards
- 1997 BRIO award[2]
- 2007 BRIO award[2]
- 2008 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival's Jury Award for Best Documentary Short for "Con El Toque de la Chavetta" ("With the Stroke of the Chavetta")[3]
- 2010 BRIO award[4]
References
- ↑ Jose Martinez "Film opens Saturday in Bronx" Daily News Sunday, April 22, 2001 http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-04-22/local/18169485_1_south-bronx-building-carlos-foster-cuban-roots
- 1 2 3 Cassandra Lizaire "Filmmaker Celebrates Cuban Tradition, Receives Arts Award," Norwood News June 28, 2007 http://www.norwoodnews.org/id=625&story=filmmaker-celebrates-cuban-tradition-receives-arts-award/
- ↑ "11th Cine Las Americas Winners" http://cinelasamericas.org/2008/
- ↑ Bronx Council on the Arts (list of 2010 BRIO winners) http://www.bronxarts.org/awardee_all.asp?SelCategory=15:2010&selSubcategory2=2
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