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Dear NYU: Meet My Visual Cover Letter

Dear NYU: Meet My Visual Cover Letter

In the event that you haven’t been active on any social networks connected to me within the last 72 hours, then you’ll perhaps find this to be news. And for those that have been following me, only some of what I have to say will be new.

With the end of the spring semester and commencement for the class of 2011, my year-long contract with Steinhardt has come to a close. For the past year, I was featured and highlighted as one of the student bloggers, bringing in a student perspective on an international front, what with me being in Paris for the whole academic year. Aside from the rotation of front-page feature and Twitter mentions, my blog was highlighted on the At a Glance Steinhardt blog maintained by Debra Weinstein; that entry can be found by clicking here.

Recently, the position of assistant director for external affairs for the media, culture, and communications department became available. Granted, I cannot work full-time what with my schedule, but I feel as though I would be a great choice to improve and direct the department’s visibility – both offline and online – as well as relations. In any case, I am pitching myself through this visual cover letter, which perhaps some of you have already seen, in hopes of scoring the job (or some tailored version of it given my situation).

Not to mention, my Slideshare was featured on the home page, much like some of my other presentations.

July 11, 2011
Edge Atlantic Film Festival

Edge Atlantic Film Festival

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Edge Atlantic Film Festival promotional poster

Last week, the French movie scene was brought over across the Atlantic and to the NYU Washington Square campus. Headed up by Raissa Lahcine, the Edge Atlantic Film Festival, which presents independent feature films by American directors in France and French directors in the United States as well as shorts by Tisch School of Arts and La femis students, showcased four films in conjunction with several roundtables over a course of three days.

Unfortunately, I was busy and couldn’t make it to the first two days of the festival; I did however get a chance to come out for the last screening. It was quite a delight and interesting to see so many familiar faces – staff and former NYU in France students – since I hadn’t seen anyone from the campus since May. Seeing everyone in a context that wasn’t the small closed campus in the 16th arrondisement was a bit of a shock at first, but a pleasant change.

The film itself, DONOMA, was a low-budget production of only $200 that explored three aspects of love – infatuation, quotidian, and religious. Although it was rather long, the movie was well-done and was met with a large round of applause. Following the screening, the NYU in France staff said their thank-yous and director Djinn Carrénard took on a couple of questions from the audience.

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Q&A with Djinn Carrénard after DONOMA screening

Images courtesy of Edge Atlantic Film Festival

July 4, 2011