Honoring Sriyanka Ray
BRIC House
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
New York
40.68884670000001
-73.97905759999999
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Please join us to honor and celebrate the life and memory of Sriyanka Ray. Sriyanka was an award-winning Indian journalist, producer and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. She started at BRIC TV in 2013 and worked her way up to Senior Producer, covering issues of race, inequality and the criminal justice system. Much of her work was at the intersection of journalism, film and social change.
Sriyanka’s credits spanned documentary filmmaking, producing for television, live events, podcasting, project management and developing high profile partnerships and programs. She ran BRIClab Film & TV, a documentary residency program created to advance opportunities for emerging and mid-career filmmakers in New York City.
Her documentaries earned her 11 New York Emmy® nominations (including one just announced on July 14) and have been screened at various film festivals and on US public television. Her investigative film The Sweatshop Of Wall Street was a finalist in the ‘Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist in North America’ category at the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) Awards. She was a producer on the team that won a 2018 New York Emmy® award in the ‘Education/School Program’ category for Class Divide: Breaking the Pattern of School Segregation.
Sriyanka was passionate about empowering communities to tell their own stories through media education and civic engagement. To that end, she created and developed #BHeardAmplified—a program that combines free adult and youth media classes with live community events to foster social change at a hyperlocal level. This award-winning program received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Foundation and the Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund.
Sriyanka was from Kolkata, the City of Joy, where, armed with her father’s camcorder, she spent her formative years documenting its youth movements, cultural shifts and political activism. She got her B.A. in English Lit from the prestigious Presidency College where she also planned student protests, wrote for a national newspaper and directed existential plays. She moved to New York City in 2012 to pursue her M.A in Media Studies from The New School, where she focused on documentary filmmaking and human rights.
In her own words, Sriyanka was interested in stories of justice, resistance and joy. Her presence is deeply missed by all of us and her legacy will continue to inspire us as we move forward.
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2023-08-02T18:00:00-04:00
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2023-08-02T21:00:00-04:00
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