Introducing the second class of Genesis Student Film Fellows
September 2, 2019
Great Big Story’s partnership with luxury auto brand Genesis continues for a third consecutive year and with it marks the return of a successful fellowship that awarded two college students the chance to pursue their dreams in documentary filmmaking.
This year, Great Big Story is pleased to announce an expansion of the fellowship from two to four students, each of which will receive US$15,000 toward the development of their own documentary project scheduled for release on Great Big Story, November 2019.
Over the next several weeks, students will receive dedicated 1:1 mentoring from Great Big Story producers as they pitch, develop, produce and edit their micro documentary projects.
Prior to the films’ digital releases, a series of screenings in New York and South Korea will play host to the fellows as they make their official premieres in front of live audiences.
Congratulations to this year’s incoming fellows, which were nominated by faculty from the following academic institutions: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism , NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Korea’s National University for the Arts (K’ARTS) Department of Broadcasting.
Introducing:
MEIYING WU — “Meiying is a visual journalist fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese. As a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, she aims to amplify marginalized voices and produce stories about communities often hidden from the mainstream news narrative.
She has produced work for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Idaho Statesman. This summer, she worked as an intern at Sixth Tone, a Shanghai-based multimedia news outlet.
Meiying’s video story following a deaf community in India struggling to receive education resources won UC Berkeley’s Jonathan Kaminsky Memorial Award. She is a Nikon Storytellers Scholarship recipient. See more of Meiying’s work here:
WILLIAM MARTIN — William is a 2016 graduate of NYU’s Tisch Photography and Imaging program, currently enrolled in NYU’s News & Documentary Graduate Program. He is also a National Geographic Explorer, Fledgling fund recipient, and Video Fellow at the GroundTruth Project working on international human rights documentaries. Currently he is finishing a short documentary, Daughters of Drought, with NYU graduate and Rhode Scholar Melissa Godin. The piece aims to highlight the gendered ways in which climate change is impacting woman’s health and gender-based discrimination in South East Africa. Looking ahead, William will be working with indigenous communities globally to create an hour long documentary on the growing and sometimes violent conflict between the environment, those who protect it, and the exploitative economies poisoning it. His multimedia work is currently featured in Time, Teen Vogue, The GroundTruth Project, BRIC Media, and Al Jazeera. Check out William’s project work here:
ARUM NAM — Arum Nam is a master’s candidate at Korea’s National University of Arts with a concentration in documentary film. Arum spent time in U.S. in 2018 when she was enrolled in the University of Georgia’s intensive English program. Her work spans across TV, radio and film, with directorial distinctions from the Seoul Women’s Independent Film Festival, the University Film Festival of Korea and the Urban Film Festival
HYERIN LEE — Hyerin Lee is a master’s candidate at Korea’s National University of Arts. In her years of filmmaking, Lee has served as producer, writer and director for several television series and documentaries that went on to screen at international film festivals. Her work has delved into topics ranging from the fundamental theory of musical instrument sounds to mob psychology in Korea and even career searching talk shows for teens.
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