A Global Engagement Portfolio
A Global Engagement Portfolio
On Friday, May 8th, I screened my senior thesis film Regreso at Wesleyan’s Goldmith Family Cinema. I saw this project as the culmination of not only my Film Studies Major, but also my Global Engagement Minor and Global Middle East and North African Studies Minor. For this reason, it wasn’t enough for me to create …
In my GEM Capstone class, we were given the challenging but very productive task of preparing a PechaKucha presentation to share our own stories, background, and Global Engagement journey with the larger GEM community. The idea of a PechaKucha is to force an engaging and constantly moving story through a slideshow of 20 pictures that …
For my midterm in Professor A. George Bajalia’s class The Idea of Palestine, we were tasked with analyzing a work that dealt with the Palestine question and its circulation amidst different circles. I chose to analyze Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s film It Must Be Heaven about a film director pitching his movie about Palestine to …
For CGST 206, Global Engagement In Practice, my classmates and I were incredibly fortunate to take on an immersive and transformative study abroad component, traveling to Nairobi, Kenya during spring break. This trip to has opened my eyes to many things and given me countless new experiences to look back on. Rereading through my notes, …
At the end of the Spring 2024 semester, I submitted what is still my favorite paper I’ve written for film school: “Música, Memoria, Moving Image in Spain”. I think part of what I appreciated so much about Madrid native Professor Bernardo Antonio-González’s film class was his consistent focus on pop culture, music, architecture, and history …
As a film directing job for DDC Productions on campus, I was tasked with covering and editing a recap of Professor Zaira Simone-Thompson’s Abolition Geographies class’s trip to New York City in the spring of 2024. This was a collaboration with Princeton University, and both classes brought a group of student panelists to give several …
As a job for DDC Productions at Wesleyan, I shot, directed, and edited a seven-minute short documentary capturing 2024 Wesleyan Center for the Arts artist in residence Sunny Jain’s experience developing a theatrical musical experience on campus. The job is handily one of the longest-running films I’ve shot, as we captured material from January to …
For an International Art Cinema class during my senior fall, I was tasked to design a film based on one of the directors we’d talked about in class. The director I chose to embody was the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose films touched on contemporary Iran through metanarratives that are framed as taking place …
