Ayesha Abouelazm, MFA

Film and Digital Media Program Director; Instructor

Filmmaker

Ayesha Abouelazm is a filmmaker, instructor, and poet. She has written and directed many short films. This includes One (2015), Love Is A Gray Area (2016), Utterance (2016), The Girl in the Blue Bra (2016) and Not On My Shoulders (2017). She tends to gravitate towards films that deal with controversial issues and that shed light on subjects that are not talked about. Ayesha is a 2017 graduate student at Columbia College Chicago, one of the largest film schools in the entire country. The Girl in the Blue Bra is one of her more personal works and has been shown in over 20 film festivals so far, where it won “Joint Best North American Short” at the Asia South East Film Festival and best long-short film at the Kinodrome Film Festival. This film is based on the 2011 Egyptian revolution and she is underway on a feature of the same name.

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Cinema Directing, Columbia College Chicago

Bachelor of Arts in Film, University of Central Florida

Research Interests

• Arab Representations in Media
• Women's Representations in Media
• Orientalism in Film and Media

Professional/Community Affiliations

United Film and Video Association (UFVA)

AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC)

Courses Taught

• Chicago Film History
• History of Television, The
• Introduction to Video Production
• Transmedia
• World Cinema 1
• World Cinema 2