Emily Rizzo '18 and Sanjna Selvarajan '21
"And we talked" Film Viewing and Community Conversations
Thursday, November 8
9:30—10:30 a.m., 12:00—1:00 p.m., 3:00—4:00 p.m., 7:00—8:00 p.m.
Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Emily Rizzo '18 is an artist, activist and storyteller working at the interface of documentary film, audio documentary and socially engaged art. She graduated ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College magna cum laude, as an English major and double minor in intergroup relations and media and film studies. Rizzo was a student fellow at the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Storytellers’ Institute and recently exhibited her work on place-based oral history and geolocative audio documentary projects at the Oral History Association Conference at Concordia University. She has worked under ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative; Catherine Gund; Big World Cinema in Cape Town, South Africa; South Africa’s Sunday Times and New Jersey Reentry, a non-profit with the mission to remove barriers to employment for formally incarcerated individuals. Alongside the free speech documentary film, Rizzo continues work on her senior thesis, a documentary film surrounding abortion and stand-up comedy and a 360° documentary about Latino immigrants in Saratoga Springs in association with the Economic Opportunity Council of Saratoga County.
Sanjna Selvarajan '21 is an international affairs major and media and film studies minor with a passion for documentary film-making, photography and social justice. In May, she presented at a public photography exhibition about a silent march for Martin Luther King Jr. in Saratoga Springs. Alongside the free speech documentary, Selvarajan is currently producing a short documentary for the Tang as a student assistant at ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative . A storyteller at heart, Selvarajan is also in the process of filming her first independent documentary about child trafficking in orphanages across Nepal. She serves as the news section editor for ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ News and hopes someday to pursue a career as a foreign correspondent and to continue dabbling in the world of documentary film-making.