EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts | Temple University, Philadelphia [2020-2023]
B.A. in Film and TV Production | University of California, Los Angeles [2018-2020]
summa cum laude
CONFERENCES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND WORKSHOPS
Locarno Critics Academy | Locarno Film Festival [2023]
Young Critics Workshop, Photogénie | Film Fest Gent [2022]
Fellow/Critic | CinéSPEAK Philly Beat Fellowship [2022-23]
Presenter | UCLA Undergraduate Research Week [2020]
Presenter| Visions 9 Film Festival and Conference [2019]
Paper on Sohrab Shahid Saless’ Still Life
TEACHING
Lecturer | Southwark College, London
August 2023-Present
Course: Level 2 Filmmaking
PGCE Further Education Mentor | Southwark College, London
August 2024-Present
Adjunct Professor | The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township
January 2023-May 2023
Course: Intro to Digital Filmmaking
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Temple University, Philadelphia
August 2020-December 2022
Courses: Media and Culture, Filmmaking, Media Arts 1 & 2, Videography
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Shabahang Scholarship [June 2023]
For Academic Merit
MFA Completion Grant, Temple University [November 2022]
For Rear Window
Film and Media Production Grant, Temple University [October 2022]
For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Scribe Student Mediamaker Fund, Philadelphia [December 2021]
For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Vice Provost for the Arts Student Grant, Temple University [December 2021]
For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [May 2020]
For halluCINEtions
Frank Glicksman Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [May 2020]
For halluCINEtions
Jim Morrison Film Award, UCLA [May 2020]
For my film halluCINEtions
Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Scholarship, UCLA [Nov 2019- Feb 2020]
For research on Sohrab Shahid Saless
Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [May 2019]
For The Act of Seeing