Roundtable: Juror Discussion
+Free Event
+Visiting Directors
Sunday, 9/30
2:45 p.m.
Join us for a roundtable discussion with members of each of our jurying committees, Wessam El Meligi, Andrea Shaker, and E.G. Bailey, for a roundtable discussion and an announcement of the juried awards of 2018.
Wessam El Meligi is assistant professor and the core of Arabic studies program at Macalester College. He has a PhD from the University of Alexandria in Egypt, studied at the University of Edinburgh, and was a Fulbright Scholar twice. He teaches classes on Arab cinema and comparative literature and has published on Arab and Iranian cinema, literature, television, and theatre.
Andrea Shaker was raised in Connecticut savoring her Sito’s stories, dihan and eggs, and lebneh wa na‘na‘. After earning her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she moved to Minnesota where she is a professor of art at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University. Her photographic and moving image works have exhibited nationally and internationally.
E.G. Bailey Recently named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and a 2018 McKnight Artist; EG Bailey is an Ivey and Emmy award-winning artist, filmmaker, director and producer. With several awards to his credit his work is also archived at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and the film, Petting Zoo, which he edited; debuted at the 65th International Berlin Film Festival. His latest work includes the co-curation of America Now!, a special film project which has taken place at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland, Latvia and others; his recent film KEON ’18, his web series Brothers, and his film, New Neighbors, that premiered at the 2017 Sundance film festival and shown at over 100 festivals world-wide.
