{"id":208348,"date":"2020-02-24T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/?p=208348"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:28:08","slug":"208348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2020\/02\/24\/208348\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Ave Filmmakers Inspire Young Audience at SCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female filmmakers, Dionne van den Berg and Pooja Tripathi\u2019s presentation at Montclair State University\u2019s Film Forum left audience members inspired and motivated. The filmmakers are currently touring universities all around, marketing their new web series, \u201c<a href=\"blank\">Amsterdam Ave<\/a>.\u201d The duo wrote their series, while also acting as the leading characters in the storyline. Berg and Tripathi streamed episodes for students and followed them by a Q &amp; A session. They hoped to answer any questions young filmmakers had about their experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmsterdam Ave.\u201d invokes both drama and comedy, about two young girls who switch places to follow their dreams. Berg\u2019s character traveled to New York to attend acting school, while Tripathi\u2019s character left the states to attend a DJing competition in Amsterdam. Leaving family, societal norms and gendered expectations behind; the two characters decide to take the fate of their life into their own hands. This wasn\u2019t the case only on the screen, but also reflected Berg and Tripathi\u2019s real-life experience as well. Originally, business students, they felt no fulfillment in their field and decided to leave it to pursue filmmaking and acting. Therefore, they hope to inspire young people to chase their dreams and to put their fears aside. The duo also empowers all female filmmakers of color. Tripathi states, \u201cAlmost 90% of our team is made up of strong female filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With only sixty thousand dollars available for funds, the young filmmakers shocked the audience as they noted they were able to complete the full six episodes with that budget. The audience was left in admiration as they went through the Q &amp; A and reflected on the duo\u2019s hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Get connected with Berg and Tripathi:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amsterdamave.theseries\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCCE-Uczz_5TbYEmiA7jLIrg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amsterdamave.theseries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/amsterdamave1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left: Writer\/Director Kim Dempster, filmmakers Dionne van den Berg and Pooja Tripathi, and Professor Roberta Friedman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":208349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208353,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208348\/revisions\/208353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}