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Social Documentation Master of Fine Arts Candidates
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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.
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I'm a Costa Rican-American woman of color that grew up in the Chicago area.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Research Interests: Film/Media Analysis, Leftist/Socialist Political movements, Transgender politics, Abolition, African-American and Asian-American studies, Korean Reunification and Imperialism/Colonialism studies
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Research Interests: Ethnography, Ethnopoetics, Aging and Technology, Sephardic Jewish Diaspora, Queer Anthropology
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Amrit Kaur is a queer, undocumented, South Asian femme, community organizer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.