EDUCATION
MFA Film & Media Arts Temple University 2016
BA Fine Arts University At Albany 2013
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FILMOGRAPHY
Family of Too Many
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor
Awards
3rd Prize Award Farhang Film Festival 2019
Best Short Film Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2018
Awards of Merit for Short Fiction University Film and Video Assiciation 2018
Best Short Screenplay Award Diamond Screen Film Festival 2016
Festivals and Screenings
Official Selection Cape Cod Arab & Middle Eastern Cinema 2019
Vox Populi Gallery Philadelphia 2019
Official Selection New Filmmakers New Films 2019
Official Selection Blackstar Film Festival 2018
Official Selection Ivy Film Festival - Short Screenplay Category
Official Selection Citizen Jane Film Festival 2018
Official Selection Women’s Independent Film Festival 2018
Stars & Screen Conference 2018 - Filmmakers and Filmmaking Perspective Panel
Minuet for a Disappearance
Director/Producer
Festivals and Screenings:
Screening Scholarship Media Festival at UPenn 2019
Philadelphia Film Society Screening - 2016
Official Selection Athens Animfest - 2016
Official Selection Diamond Screen Film Festival- 2015
Emerging Docs Practices Exhibition – 2015
Raha
Writer/Director/Producer
Screening:
Philadelphia Film Society Screening - 2016
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RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
Djerassi Resident Artist Program -2018
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundations of New Mexico Artist Residency - 2017 Spent 3 months as an artist resident in the foundation at Taos NM
Research Fellowship – 2012 Received a fellowship from the research foundation at University at Albany.
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GRANTS
Graduate School Completion Grant - 2016 Received a grant from Temple University graduate school for the completion of “Family of Too Many”
Taslimi Foundation Production Grant – 2016 Received a scholarship from Taslimi foundation for the production of “Family of Too Many”
Dean’s Production Grant – 2015 Received a grant from the dean of the Center for the Arts at TU to distribute the short film “Family of Too Many”
Departmental Production Grant – 2015 Received a grant from the FMA department at TU for the production of the short narrative “Family of Too Many”
Departmental Distribution Grant – 2015 Received a grant from the FMA department at TU to distribute the short narrative “Dream House”
Dean’s Distribution Grant- 2015 Received a grant from the dean of the Center for the Arts at TU to distribute the short experimental documentary “Minuet for a Disappearance”
Dean’s Production Grant - 2015 Received a grant from the dean of the Center for the Arts at TU for the completion of the short narrative film “ Dream House “
Dean’s Production Grant- 2015 Received a grant from the dean of Center for the Arts at TU for the completion of the short narrative “Raha”
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PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
University Film & Video Association 2019 - Mentorship Workshop
Temple University 2019 - New Faces of Film Panel
University of Pennsylvania 2019 - On Rendering Matters of Concern and Present Histories
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor - University of New Mexico - Present
Lecturer - Rowan University - Fall 2018 & Spring 2019
Adjust Professor - Rowan University - Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
Adjunct Professor - Temple University - Spring 2017 to Spring 2018
Teaching Assistant - Temple University - Fall 2014 to Spring 2016