Fusion Film Festival Celebrating Women in Film, Television, and New Media OUR MISSION: The Fusion Film Festival is New York University’s premiere film and television festival dedicated to celebrating women in film, television, and new media from student to icon. Fusion was founded ten years ago at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts with the mission of encouraging, promoting, and inspiring women filmmakers and the collaboration between the sexes. Every spring, Fusion mounts a multi-day film festival with multiple screenings, industry panels, pitch meetings, master-classes, retrospectives, and student showcases. In the ten years since its launch, Fusion has been proud to attract accomplished artists and entertainment visionaries such as Lena Dunham (HBO’s Girls), Maria Zuckerman (VP of HBO Films), the writer and producers for Sex & The City and Smash, Laura Kaufmann (Senior Manager at MTV Networks), Lauren Zalaznick (Chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media), and film, television, and Broadway actor Paul Rudd (This Is 40). Our goal at Fusion is to celebrate visionaries in the entertainment industry, as well as those in our own NYU community, and to feature incredible work, so that you leave feeling inspired by the art of great storytelling.