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Social Documentation Master of Fine Arts Candidates
MFA Candidate
I am a documentary filmmaker and graduated from UCLA in Documentary Production.
I am interested in documenting the voice of historically oppressed and marginalized communities and individuals.
MFA Candidate
I'm a Costa Rican-American woman of color that grew up in the Chicago area.
MFA Candidate
As a queer immigrant woman of color, Janet Chen works to support underrepresented and marginalized communities. She is a filmmaker, organizer and educator. She has worked at UC Irvine, Outfest and Visual Communications.
MFA Candidate
Vega Darling is an independent documentary filmmaker. His film work embodies subversive themes of queerness, gender non-conformity, intersectional feminism, and punk rock. Darling has curated music and cultural festivals all over the country.
MFA Candidate
Research Interests: Cuban culture and performance; Latin America and the Caribbean; US imperialism and interventionism; immigrant identity and integration; education equity; data visualization; community arts and artivism
MFA Candidate
Research Interests: Film/Media Analysis, Leftist/Socialist Political movements, Transgender politics, Abolition, African-American and Asian-American studies, Korean Reunification and Imperialism/Colonialism studies
MFA Candidate
Research Interests: Ethnography, Ethnopoetics, Aging and Technology, Sephardic Jewish Diaspora, Queer Anthropology
MFA Candidate
Amrit Kaur is a queer, undocumented, South Asian femme, community organizer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA.
MFA Candidate
Colleen Kelley graduated from Kenyon College with degrees in Film and English. She was awarded Honors by the college’s Film and Theater Department for
electing to complete a thesis project of an original screenplay and television series. She also studied film in Wellington, New Zealand.
MFA Candidate
Research Interests: US Military base ecologies in Asia, American military culture, experimental documentary filmmaking, performance in documentary, fetishization of Asian women, mixed-race Japanese identity, queer cinema, Asian-American identity, Queer Asian cinema, anti-capitalist filmmaking pract
MFA Candidate
Maria’s passion in film began while working in the Entertainment Industry in California. She is a alumni of the Graduate Documentary Certificate Program at The New School where she completed her first short, La Lupita, which premiered at 2019 Doc NYC Festival.
MFA Candidate
John Ortiz is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer from Moravia, San José, Costa Rica. His work touches upon themes of language and communication, Indigenous land recovery movements in Central America, Latin American history, and political activism.
MFA Candidate
I am an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is passionate about the ways that media plays a role in social justice practices. I graduated from DePauw University as a Media Fellow with a Conflict Studies major and a Gender Studies/ Film Studies double minor.