Let’s Zoom Parenting & Adoption

Let’s Zoom Parenting & Adoption with Special Guest Joel Katz, M.F.A

Being an Adoptive Parent: A Personal Perspective

NJCU Media Arts Professor Joel Katz will use clips of his 2011 film White: A Memoir in Color to discuss adoption, race, and attachment theory. He is the adoptive parent of two daughters.

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Joel Katz is a filmmaker and educator whose work encompasses documentary and memoir/essay form. His best-known film Strange Fruit, about the history and legacy of the anti-lynching protest song first made famous by Billie Holiday, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His recent film, The #1 Bus Chronicles (2019), profiles the lives of riders of the NJ Transit line that links Newark and Jersey City. Katz was awarded with the 2020 Jersey City Arts Council Award in Film & Television.

Since 1996 he has been a Professor in the Media Arts Department of New Jersey City University, and in 2008 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Germany.

Joel has served on the Board of Directors of Third World Newsreel since 1999 and has been on the Advisory Board of the Black Maria Film Festival since 2011. Check out Katz’ filmmaking website at onierafilms.com