disTHIS! Film Series Returns Monday, February 2nd
at new NYU location with Sneak Preview of MTV Series “How’s Your News!”
Location: New York University, 19 University Place (just below 8th Street). First Floor theater. Room 102.

 See a sneak preview of the "How's Your News?" television series BEFORE IT PREMIERES on MTV at the disTHIS! Film Series Monday, February 2nd! Come celebrate our move and the television premiere of HYN with disTHIS! and our new partners at New York University’s Council for the Study of Disability .  Doors open at 6:30pm. Screening begins at 7pm followed by a discussion.  Suggested donation $5. To RSVP and reserve your seat, please write: disthis@... or call 212-284-4160.

“How’s Your News?” features a team of reporters with disabilities who travel across the nation by bus interviewing people on the street (who sometimes turn out to be celebrities) along the way.  The MTV series airs on the network February 8th.  The feature film which led to the new  MTV series was screened at disTHIS! during our freshman season in June 2006.

The concept for the show – which has gained a cult following the 1999 release of a feature documentary by the same name – began at a summer camp for people with disabilities called Camp Jabberwocky. HYN director, Arthur Bradford, taught a video class there and began the program as man-on-the-street segments that eventually grew to short films and later, a popular feature length documentary.

"NYU's Council for the Study of Disability is delighted to be partnering with the Disabilities Network of NYC for their acclaimed disTHIS! Film Series, the first Monday of each month,” said Faye Ginsburg, the co-director of the Council for the Study of Disability and the Director of the Center for Media, Culture & History at New York University. “Each screening promises 'disability through a whole new lens' for friends and fellow travelers in the university and beyond."

"How’s Your News?” is the perfect show and NYU is the perfect location for the exciting evolution of disTHIS!” said Lawrence Carter-Long, the series curator and Director of Advocacy for the Disabilities Network of NYC which facilitates the project.  The popular monthly film series will continue to offer cutting edge disability fare where audiences can enjoy festival quality works with “No handkerchief necessary and no heroism required.”  The Feb 2nd screening will be the first in a series of events at NYU beginning at 6:30pm on the first Monday of the month since organizers lost their regular screening space unexpectedly in the Fall of 2008.