Filmmakers and Producers

Renata Gangemi

Renata Gangemi is a video maker and a professor who has directed several documentaries mainly on issues affecting immigrants, women and workers. Ms. Gangemi has also worked on many documentary productions as director of photography and editor. She has a master on Media Arts from City College of New York and is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Post-production at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She has produced countless documentaries with teenagers and community organizers and has also been working as a professioal on non-lineareditor. Her work has been shown in local television and festivals in USA, Latin America, Europe, Asia. Tamales in January has been shown in BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), MOMA (Museum of Modern Arts) in New York City and at ZEBRA Poetry Film Award in Berlin Germany.

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Among Women
Renata Gangemi
1996, 32 min., Color, US
Using interviews and experimental techniques, AMONG WOMEN is a wide ranging exploration of the social perceptions of pregnancy, the medical professions approach towards it, and midwifery as a healthy political choice for care and delivery....

Latino Poets Speakout
Renata Gangemi & Ruben Gonzalez
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 10 min., Color, US
Three shorts featuring performances by some of New York City's vanguard Latino poets:

KILLKILLKILL by Jesus Papoleto Melendez (5 Min)

GOD BLESS AMERICA by Mariposa (2 min), and

TAMALES IN JANUARY by Carlo Baldi (3 min).

From the war to police bru...

Talking Back
Renata Gangemi & Ruben Gonzalez
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1992, 17 min., Color, US
This documentary examines the lives and concerns of Latinas who are members of the service industry in the US. Video maker Gangemi weaves her own experiences as a domestic with those of other Latin American women. The video attempts to break the silence and invisibility they face because of their ...


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