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  • Terry Jones

    Terry Jones’ thesis film Osnö’ explores Indigenous memory, loss, and intergenerational trauma through the story of a young boy torn between modern influences and ancestral teachings. Set against the legacy of colonialism, it reflects on language, culture, and survival within Haudenosaunee life.

    Haoran Chang

    Haoran Chang’s research-creation explores how Daoist philosophy and somatic practice can reshape health gamification through ethnographic game design. By bridging Daoism and Western game studies, their work proposes a non-Eurocentric, pluralistic approach to games as tools for healing and cultural understanding.

  • Kerry-Ann James

    Kerry-Ann James’s research explores aesthetics in contemporary cinema, with a focus on spatiality and temporality. Building on her published scholarship, her work examines how film shapes and interprets time and space.

    Sana Akram

    Sana Akram’s work revives the tilismi dastan, a historic Indo-Persian storytelling tradition rooted in enchantment and interconnected ways of knowing. Through research-creation and XR, they reimagine it as a decolonial, immersive practice for contemporary storytelling and worldbuilding.

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    AMPD alumni at the Toronto International Film Festival

    Several alumni from York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) have films appearing at the annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

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    Film professor one of five recipients of Killam Prize

    Professor Janine Marchessault has been named one of the five recipients of the esteemed 2024 Killam Prize, recognized in the Humanities category, honouring her work in community-based and public art exhibitions, research creation and public outreach.

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Claudia Sicondolfo

Vanier Scholar Claudia Sicondolfo is a recent PhD alum who is currently an Assistant Professor (LTA) in the Department of Arts, Media, Culture at UTSC. She recently defended her dissertation, “Programming Process Pedagogy: Towards Meaningful Audience Engagement and Public Participation Models Within Contemporary Canadian Media Arts Festivals, 2012-2024.”

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Kaz Radwanski

MFA alumni writer-director Kazik Radwanski has become one of the leading lights of Canadian cinema. The Toronto-based filmmaker is part of a community of young independent directors who frequently collaborate with one another, their very different sensibilities inflecting each other’s projects in provocative ways.

Lawrence Garcia

Lawrence Garcia

Lawrence Garcia received the Governor-General Gold Medal (Master’s) for top graduating graduate student at York University and commences PhD studies at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute in 2023. He has published widely in Cineaste, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, and MUBI Notebook.

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