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PROGRAM

Welcome - Dr. Meredith Ward (5 min.)

Notable Design by Katherine Paul (a podcast episode, 10 min. 12 sec.)
Let's Talk, Period. by Lina Kim (a documentary web series episode, 5 min. 2 sec.)
"Home Taste: On Food and Family in the Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda” by Jessica Liong (a film analysis, 10 min. 14 sec.)
"Cat People" by Sebastian Durfee (a screenplay adaptation of “Cat Person” from The New Yorker by Kristen Roupenian, 34 min. 13 sec.)

The Colossus by Brandt Matthews (experimental film, 1 min. 37 sec.)
How to Care for Strangers by Carver Bain (narrative film, 20 min. 35 sec.)
Paper Flowers by Nita Nair (narrative film, 11 min. 20 sec.)
四季 by Daniel Matsumoto (narrative film, 9 min. 45 sec.)
Winter in Manseokdong by Dayeon Kim (narrative film, 10 min. 27 sec.)
Mother Tongue by Justin Ryu (narrative film, 16 min. 8 sec.)

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A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

The Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies Program is proud to present the senior capstone projects of the Class of 2020. The capstone program presents the best and brightest of Johns Hopkins' most serious media makers, screenwriters, and scholars - the ones who have dedicated four years of their lives to the pursuit of excellence in the field of media arts. We are delighted to present the rich, complex, and inspiring results of their hard work in this diverse spring 2020 showcase.

The senior capstone is designed to reflect our students' training and their talents. It serves as the culmination of our students' experience of Film and Media Studies and all it has offered them: its curriculum, its faculty mentorship, and its extracurriculars. However, it serves even more as a reflection of its students personal inspirations, passions, desires, and talents. It is a personal reflection on film art (in its components of image and sound); on the art of writing film and television narratives; and on the scholarship of the moving image and sound. The seniors of the Class of 2020 are engaging with demons, both cultural and personal; frustrations, both anecdotal and systemic; beauties, realistic and fantastical; and forms, narrative and experimental. They have mobilized cinematography, directing, editing, producing, sound mixing, dialogue, story, and character, critical thinking, analysis, theory and history. Each projects reflects the constellation of influences that shaped their makers' trajectories over the course of college. Courses taken, and conversations with their faculty mentors and guides are deeply felt here. So too are feedback from friends and co-majors, who helped along the way. Each project shows a four-year history of thought and feeling in its development.

The result is eleven projects that are each as distinctive as a fingerprint. They represent some of the best their generation has to offer in film production, screenwriting, and critical studies of media. We present them with pride and confidence, and we thank our students for making them.

We wish to acknowledge that the class of 2020 has had to exert patience beyond most. Finishing our their senior years in a pandemic of epic proportions is a lonely task. And it disrupts shooting schedules, workshops, and writing projects. When projects were affected by the sudden interruption from COVID-19, this sometimes meant students being unable to complete their projects fully. When this was the case, it is noted in the program.

We ask that you, their families, friends, and the public, meet these projects - the gorgeous offerings of the class of 2020 - with the fullness of heart and spirit with which they were created. We believe that is what they deserve.

Congratulations, Class of 2020. We are so proud of you.

Dr. Meredith C. Ward

on behalf of Film and Media Studies