The Team ✮
Every year, CINSSU is run entirely by dedicated undergraduate students who volunteer their time to the organization. They have a wide range of interests and expertise, finding common ground in the love of cinema. Meet our team for the 2025/2026 year!
★ Arjen Karaoglan ★
President
she/her
Cinema Studies Specialist & Sociology Major
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Fremont (2023) dir. Babak Jalali
★ Samantha Delicata ★
Vice President Internal
she/her
Cinema Studies and Work and Organizations
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
The Lion King 2
★ Ava Derro ★
Vice President External
she/her
Cinema Studies Specialist
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
I love Casablanca, a forever classic!
★ Shuhruh Akhand ★
Secretary
she/her
Cinema Studies and Sociology
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
One film I want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students is the Canadian film I like Movies, directed by Chandler Levack. Sure, recommending a film named I Like Movies to cinema students is a bit on the nose but it’s also a perfect snapshot of the teenage cinephile mindset!
★ Karina Pandurangadu ★
Treasurer
she/her
Cinema and Economics
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
The Blue Kite
★ Jo Nguyen ★
Promotional Director-in-Chief
she/her
Cinema Studies Major & Computer Science Major
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
If you can handle body horror, Raw (2016)!
★Shakira Rodriguez ★
Promotional Director
she/her
Cinema studies and English
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Dazed and Confused (1993) — Sweet Emotion as the opening shot is *chef’s kiss <3
★Elli Chow ★
Promotional Director
she/her
Cinema Studies Major and Creative Writing Minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Perfect Blue - Satoshi Kon
★Ella ★
Promotional Director
she/her
Political Science and Cinema Studies
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Little Fish
★ Yasmine Alm ★
Art Director-in-Chief
she/her
Double Major in Cinema Studies and Sociology
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
An underrated cinephilia/movie business film I enjoyed this summer was Visconti's Bellissima (1951). A lot to learn about film from meta-film!!
★Neehla Andrea-Luz Pal ★
Art Director
Major in Cinema Studies, double minor in Visual Studies and French Language
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Losing Ground
★ King Tung Lam ★
Art Director
she/her
Public Policy Major, Cinema Studies Major, Spanish Minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Past Lives
★ Sophie Zhang ★
Art Director
she/her
Cinema Studies & Philosophy
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Sunset Boulevard
★ Astrid Yap ★
Camera Stylo Co-Editor-in-Chief
she/her
Cinema Studies + Book and Media Studies
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)
★ Alex Docherty ★
Camera Stylo Co-Editor-in-Chief
she/her
Cinema Studies and Architecture
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented
★ Cat ★
Special Events Coordinator
they/them
Cinema Major, DTS Major, and Biology Minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Megalopolis (the only movie I’ve cried laughing to in a long time)
★ Michela Fricano ★
Special Events Coordinator
she/her
Cinema Studies & English
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022). This film is intimate, raw, and gut-wrenchingly beautiful. It's such an amazing feature film debut!
★ Lok ★
Special Events Coordinator
she/her
East Asian Studies, Cinema Studies, and Material Culture & Semiotics
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Resilience by Yunie Choi / On The Way Home by Mizuki Kiyama (they’re both really short films but I like them :>)
★Burak Batu Tunchel ★
Programmer-in-Chief
Cinema Studies Specialist & Creativity & Society Minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Cemetery Man
★ Delia Lappala ★
Programmer
she/her
English and Cinema Studies Double Major
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Roman Holiday
★ Yorm ★
Programmer
she/her
Cinema Specialist, Creativity and Society Minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Ishtar
★ Vince Woodford ★
Newsletter Editor
he/him
Cinema Studies and Political Science
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
After Hours (1985) dir. Martin Scorese
★ Bridget Helbig ★
Trailer Editor
she/her
Cinema Studies
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
The Servant (1963)
★ Joy ★
Filmmaking Coordinator
she/her
History and Cinema Studies double major, English minor
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Rouge (1987) dir. Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
★ Mark N Metri ★
Podcast Co-host
she/her
Molecular Genetics Specialist
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
★ Soren Stancliff ★
Podcast Co-host
Cinema Studies Specialist
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Venezia 70 Future Reloaded - Paul Schrader segment
★ Ali ★
Podcast Editor
he/him
Cinema Studies Specialist
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Close-Up (1990)
★ Ario Shakarami ★
Partnerships Director
he/him
Cinema Studies
What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?
Memento (2000)